Quote: Do we know if these are rolled sonotube? The weight of the OTA on the SW site seem to indicate that it is so, but I'm not sure.
I doubt if it's sonotube. A 10" Skywatcher, regular tube dob that the school has, is a metal tube. Why would they make this one out of a different product?
Bill
-------------------- 6'' Orion SkyQuest
12.5'' f/5 Custom Truss Dob
William Optics 80mm ZenithStar ED II
f/5 25" newtonian on a giant GEM, any time I want
Observing sessions grand total for 2008, 121.
So far in 2009, 92