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: Re: large Dobsonian telescopes Message-ID: <387@spar.UUCP> Date: Sun, 7-Jul-85 20:53:34 EDT Article-I.D.: spar.387 Posted: Sun Jul 7 20:53:34 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 13:50:05 EDT References: <1915GMS@psuvm> Reply-To: freeman@max.UUCP (Jay Freeman) Organization: Schlumberger Palo Alto Research, CA Lines: 21 Summary: [] >>> ... 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)