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Re: Intelliscope questions--2004 S&T review (LONG)
05/09/08 06:47 PM
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1. Probably true compared to a mirror that costs what the entire XTi costs. You can't buy a Ford and expect it to perform like a Porsche. Most of the time the atmosphere, not the optics, will limit your magnification.
2. If you do your part it's certainly accurate enough for optical work. It's not going to put a 1 arc second object smack in the middle of a barlowed 5mm eyepiece but neither will anything else you can move.
3. Don't observe in a swamp.  If you live around soft ground buy a piece of plywood to sit your scope on. This holds true for any telescope.
4. Yes, some care is necessary here but we're not talking about fine china fragile either.
5. Balance can be tricky if using heavy eyepieces. This is true with any telescope and especially dobsonians. The tensioning system works admirably well for its simplicity and if you need more counterweighting then cheap solutions are easy to find.
6. My chief gripe. It does work fairly well when new but will require another solution in the future. Almost all of the solutions cost less than $50 with most less than $20.
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Jim Girardeau
Orion XT12 Intelliscope
Celestron 11X80mm binoculars
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