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Junk...The description of that scope itself should send you running..." NEW
BURGUNDY 6" REFLECTOR ". I buy and sell a couple of dozen scopes a year. If you would like a nice "Inexpensive...not cheap"set up for looking in your neighbors window I would tell you to look for an older mak style spotting scope from celestron. Or even a small bushnell or celestron reflector. The 114mm is not a bad value and common as sand. They are on ebay all the time and can be had for well under 100.00 with a tripod and maybe a few ep's. The other thing you need to consider is the mount. That mount shown on the" NEW BURGUNDY 6" REFLECTOR "is known as equitorial and is designed to align with the earths north south axis. It is not a point and shoot mount. I would recomend an alt/az mount...left/ right /up /down. The equitorial maintains north /south alighnment and the scope actually rotates instead of the mount to achieve all angles. Bob has an alt az mount on the scope he shows the picture of. It is great for photography as you do not get star trails during long exposure since it is only tracking east to west. The alt az on the other hand will do a terrific job only it is moving in three dimensions allowing more for more error during long exposure.I hope this helps... Mundo "Gilligan" wrote in message ink.net... Robert, I'm looking at getting a large diameter reflector telescope that is inexpensive and would like your opinion. I'm going to use it for terrestrial use, mainly looking at prairie dogs getting their heads blown off, looking in people's windows, babe watching at the reservoir and scoping out climbs and hunting terrain. I'm considering this one from eBay: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...1456 530&rd=1 Will I need a Barlow for it? How hard is it to hook up a camera? A digital imaging focal plane? What do you think of the scope? What would you recommend in that price range? Thanks Robert, your informed opinion is highly valued. Gilligan |
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