![]() ![]() Ask yourself the following questions and be honest with your answers. Some hard questionsīefore you decide which type of telescope to get, you need to take a hard look at your situation. These are all important questions that you need to answer before purchasing a telescope, whether it’s your first scope or 10th. What kind should you get? How much do you really have to spend? Which is best for you? ![]() Thumbing through Astronomy’s pages, you see many that are intriguing. Either way, you’ve decided to take the next step and get your first telescope. Or maybe you’ve just recently become interested in the wonders hanging high above our heads. ![]() (Rockland Community College.May you have had a casual interest in astronomy for years, looking up at the night sky every chance you get. If you would like to get a look at one of these great innovations, Peter told Newsblaze that he expects to exhibit one of the Monster Dobsonians at this Spring’s NEAF (Northeast Astronomy Forum) show April 17 and 18 in Sufferen, N.Y. The mount for a large telescope is often as expensive or more expensive than the telescope mirror itself but Dobsonians are inexpensive and fine for visual observing. Note: a Dobsonian telescope is a Newtonian reflector telescope (invented by Newton, of course) but mounted in a very inexpensive way. The 36-inch scope is actually built and photographed, with delivery scheduled for this summer, although the 40- and 50-inch scopes still exist only as drawings. The largest of these Monsters is scheduled for delivery by mid 2011 (having a custom-designed telescope this size means waiting for up to a decade.) In fact, using an aluminum truss structure the telescope is actually designed to be transportable despite an assembled weight of about 400 lbs. honeycomb mirror is relatively light weight and easy to bring to ambient temperature using the five included fans. The primary mirror of the Orion square inches of surface, four-times the light gathering power of an 18-inch scope, the largest practical home scope until now. The specs of even the smallest of these new Orion Monster Dobsonian telescopes are filled with superlatives. While a bit out of the reach of the average teenage telescope fan with money from eBay or a paper route (prices range from about $55,000 to about $123,000 for the really big scope), as people find travel less and less enjoyable and practical, the true astronomy geek now has something comparable in both prestige and cost to match his less intellectual neighbor’s swimming pool and Porsche. Now Orion’s Peter Moreo has produced the ultimate wet-dream goal for anyone obsessed with viewing the farthest reaches of the heavens, 36- 40- and 50-inch telescopes. Until now cocooning gadgetry has most appealed to sports and movie fans with gigantic TVs and home theaters (I’ll quietly admit to having both Dish Network satellite HD and an Internet-connected BlueRay DVD player connected to my 72-inch DLP TV screen and Carver stereo system).īut until now the telescopes available to me even at my great location on top of a mountain in West Central PA haven’t been able to satisfy my urge to peruse the galaxies on cold winter nights because I was limited to a puny 12-inch telescope. In what must be the ultimate gadget for amateur astronomers wishing to cocoon, Orion Telescopes has announced the availability of what must be the world’s largest consumer telescopes. ![]()
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