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Dougie
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Re: Wondering what I would need?
07/02/08 09:13 PM
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I've owned some telescopes before. Granted nothing quite as large as what I'm considering now  . I don't have tons of cash so generally I try and do something I'm going to use a long time the first time. Thats one of the reasons for not doing a small one and then moving my way up. I would order a mirror which would make things MUCH easier but 800+ bucks for the ones I was looking at is a bit unfeasible and I'd get more pleasure knowing I ground out my own mirror . I would kind of like to keep the total length no more then probably 8' unless I make it able to disassemble somehow. The later option is probably the better one. Is it really that much harder to cut a FL or 4 or 5? If possible I'd really like to do something a bit bigger then 10" I'm not trying to sound cocky or anything but I think I can do it. I was originally thinking 18" but that might be rather huge. But something like 10-15" I think would probably do me lots of good until I move into a place where I can put up a little observatory and build a monster Or at least have a garage to store it in.
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