Re: ATM 6" Dob: How Easy? How Cheap? How Heavy?

[Kyle Barger <kbarger@navpoint.com>]

At 03:08 PM 7/21/98 +0000, Brent Hutto wrote:
>University 
>Optics seems to sell everything you need to build a Newtonian OTA

I can't speak to any other UO components... but I would avoid their
spiders.  They are complicated to put together, OK, not complicated, but
there are lots of little pieces that need to be screwed together to get
things set up.  And the collimation is very difficult.. once you have the
mirror where you want it, it's hard to tighten the screws to keep it there
without moving it.  I wasn't dissatisfied enough to get rid of it and buy
something else, but I wouldn't buy another one.