Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site spar.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!decwrl!spar!freeman 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 References: <969@mhuxt.UUCP> Reply-To: freeman@max.UUCP (Jay Freeman) Organization: Schlumberger Palo Alto Research, CA Lines: 17 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)