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I assume the same could be said for scopes, yet my frac has a made in the USA sticker on it.

Well if the clouds ever disappear I will definitely throw the scope in the car and head out for a view. I always view Mercury as an evening target and had some decent (for Mercury) last year.

Oh that went years ago. The only thing wrong with it was it was a Newtonian. I foolishly bought one new later on as a second scope when I ran into OO’s legendary customer service

Exactly 👍

Well I have to confess that none of my gear is made in China, not a thing. That’s entirely coincidental though. I honestly couldn’t give a hoot where anything is made as long as it works as expected. Without the Chinese literally thousands of people would never have the chance to own a telescope. I don’t own a reflector, but there are not too many which aren’t Chinese and I for one would rather deal with FLO to buy a SW dob than go anywhere near OO.

I couldn’t agree more

Yeah lots of other great suggestions all of which I ummmed and Arrrrhed about and that’s without thinking about Mars and Venus. The ice giants and Mercury are a little more challenging to locate and patience is definitely required here, especially as they, like the majority of classic targets are not circumpolar

There you go then, tis true. Thanks Don.

I thought that was odd too. However I notice on the other channel some comments about Chinese made gear which made me feel uncomfortable, heading towards racism I thought, but perhaps I am being over sensitive. Certainly some seem far more comfortable by from Taiwan rather than mainland China.

Yeah that’s the one

Oh and if you have not already done so you should grab a copy of Turn Left at Orion

It kind of depends what time of year you’re observing, the top 10 varies during the year. Your scope and interests also come into play. However the following are easy to find and worth the time and effort to observe. The Moon Saturn Jupiter Bodes and Cigar galaxies Andromeda The Double Cluster Ring Nebular Dumbell Nebular Orion Nebular Alberio Have fun.

I read somewhere that ES eyepieces wreck Baader click-locks over time. I don’t know if anyone can confirm that or not

I completed it too and also asked for undercuts to be removed, not for myself you understand, I have never had any problems with them at all, not once, but I know other people do. I only use Everbrite diagonals with my eyepieces set so perhaps that is why. I once read that TV gear, a bit like Apple works best within its own ecosystem, that’s my experience anyway.

That’s my take on it John. We like what we like, but all prone to peer pressure and group think when buying gear and sometimes buy the gear we are ‘supposed’ to like. It’s funny really since none of us really know how anyone really sees or perceives anything, we only see the images our brains 🧠 and eyes 👀 present for us.