Saben Telescope On E-bay

[tamer]

Hello all.

I have been intending to buy a telescope for quite some time now but have always been put off with the price in many web-sites. If I buy one, it will be my first telescope and therefore I don't intend to spend too much money on them, approx 100GBP. Most telescopes that I came across in website start from around 200-300 for small (approx 4") telescopes. However, I came accross some telescopes being auctioned in E-bay, and are going for very reasonable prices.

One telescope that always seems to 'pop-up' is the Saben 6" reflector telescope. Has anyone bought one of these, and how good are they. They go for around 100GBP which is within my budget, but I am not sure about their quality, as I tried to search for them being sold on astronomy website but haven't come accross any.

Also, what can I be expecting to see with this kind of telescopes? e.g. rings/moons of saturn? messier objects? galaxies? nabulas? etc?

Your help is greatly appriciated, and also maybe help convince me to go into the world of amateur astronomy.

Thank you.

[Manchurian Taikonaut]

Sorry, I can't tell you much because I've never seen a Saben 6" reflector , but I have recently bought a Meade, it's very good for seeing clusters and planets and galaxies B)

The Meade people have an Ebay site , other people like the Matsutovs or
Nexstar8's

here's the Meade E-bay


http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...bayphotohosting (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=28181&item=3826927083#ebayphotohosting)

6" Dobsonian reflector Price: US $195.00

They have great offers with scopes worth 600$ now selling at lowest prices of 200$ very good


The ETX is another big seller, its a cool scope

check out Weasner's site for information on these scopes, here are examples of what kind of photos can be taken with the ETX telescope

http://www.weasner.com/etx/guests/2003/gue...ts_deepsky.html (http://www.weasner.com/etx/guests/2003/guests_deepsky.html)

http://www.weasner.com/etx/guests/guests_p..._planets01.html (http://www.weasner.com/etx/guests/guests_planets01.html)

http://www.weasner.com/etx/guests/guests_d..._deepsky00.html (http://www.weasner.com/etx/guests/guests_deepsky00.html)

:)