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From: freeman@spar.UUCP (Jay Freeman)
Newsgroups: net.astro
Subject: Re: large Dobsonian telescopes
Message-ID: <387@spar.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 7-Jul-85 20:53:34 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 7 20:53:34 1985
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Reply-To: freeman@max.UUCP (Jay Freeman)
Organization: Schlumberger Palo Alto Research, CA
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>>> ... I have noticed several light weight large
>>>aperture reflectors described in the pages of Sky and Telescope. ...
>>Coulter Optical Company makes humungeous "Dobson"-style altazimuth
>>Newtonian reflectors. ... thirteen-inch ... ten-inch ...
>... they also make 17.5-inch and 29-inch models ...
And for that matter an eight-inch. I only mentioned the 13" and 10"
because they are the only models I have actually observed with. Several
people in the Bay Area have 17.5-inch optics mounted in their own mechanical
assemblies -- the optics I have seen seem reasonable.
Has any net reader any first-hand experience with either the 17.5, the 29
or the 8?
--
Jay Reynolds Freeman (Schlumberger Palo Alto Research)(canonical disclaimer)