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Old 12-May-2008, 12:15 AM
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Well, you could put drive motors on a Dob, but I don't know anyone who actually has. Generally the folks who want motorized tracking build a split-ring. The digital setting circles on a Dob make it easier to point the telescope by hand while reading out the coordinates, so finding things goes faster.
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