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The adventure to bring such a telescope to La Palma is another story ...
The next 4 images show my Dobsonian on the 13th IIT in Kaernten, Austria. It was a great telescope party with many nice people and big scopes.
I list some improvements for Dobsonians on this page:
- digital setting circles, are offered by many companies. They make it easy to locale any object in the sky. Last September I could benefit from this equipment attached to a friends dob, when we observed 12mag comet C/1997 J2 (Meunier-Dupouy) without much trouble. Many people will vote against it because it is much harder to learn the sky with this kind of equipment.
- equatorial platforms. I haven't seen one yet. This hardware allows you to track for a certain time (something around 1 hour). That is interesting for people who want to take photographs or ccd-images of celestial objects.
- fully computerized Dobsonians. The leading man in this field is Mel Bartels. If you want to do it yourself, you must have some knowledge in computer hard- and software, in electronics and perhaps most difficult, in mechanical engineering.
Some links for those who are interested to learn more about Dobsonian telescopes
John Dobson and how it all began
Obsession Telescopes (Think Big!)
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