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From: freeman@spar.UUCP (Jay Freeman)
Newsgroups: net.astro
Subject: Big Commercial Dobson Telescopes
Message-ID: <379@spar.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 1-Jul-85 01:24:01 EDT
Article-I.D.: spar.379
Posted: Mon Jul  1 01:24:01 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 5-Jul-85 02:39:03 EDT
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Reply-To: freeman@max.UUCP (Jay Freeman)
Organization: Schlumberger Palo Alto Research, CA
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Summary: 

In article <969@mhuxt.UUCP> evans@mhuxt.UUCP (crandall) writes:

>                      ... I have noticed several light weight large
>aperture reflectors described in the pages of Sky and Telescope. Does
>anyone know about any commercial versions of these monsters, or do they
>only appear at Stellafane and Riverside?

Coulter Optical Company makes humungeous "Dobson"-style altazimuth
Newtonian reflectors.  They work and are good values.  The thirteen-inch
Odyssey I is common at star parties in the San Francisco area, and widely 
respected as a deep-sky instrument.  It's about as large as one human
being can conveniently haul around and set up.  The ten-inch version is
substantially more portable.

(I have no financial interest in Coulter.)

-- 
Jay Reynolds Freeman (Schlumberger Palo Alto Research)(canonical disclaimer)