Is this scope for real?!

[WayBig]

At least it tracks....imagine the manual version....up 17ft, down 17ft, nudge, up 17ft, down 17ft, nudge....

[E621Keith]

I was pondering on how you'd use something on this kind of scale the other day. Shinning up ladders really seems like such a bad idea. I fell off a step ladder a couple of years back whilst pruning an apple tree and ended up falling backwards on top of it as it lay on the ground. Fortunately the ground broke my fall, but it made a terrible mess of the ladder. I had to buy a new one

Do people ever set them in a "pit", to bring the eyepiece down to a more reasonable height or are there any other common approaches to avoiding the expense of ladder replacement?

James

I'm sure if someone can afford a 1.3m dob and an observatory to house it, he can easily afford one of this.

[TheMightyKong]

It's a decepticon!!

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Buy just one? Cheapskate! I want two and configure them as binoculars

[sgazer]

i think the focal length is too long for long exposures, I bet you'd get elongated stars in no time. Plus the images would be 7 times darker than my f1.4 lens. So I'd buy a Veyron instead.

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

i think the focal length is too long for long exposures, I bet you'd get elongated stars in no time. Plus the images would be 7 times darker than my f1.4 lens. So I'd buy a Veyron instead.

A Dob is never really an imaging scope.