I've got a 6" Celestron Starhopper Dob. It's my first scope and gets me outside looking at the stars. My favorite target has been Saturn so far. I've got a 12mm, 25mm and 32.5mm eyepieces with a 2x barlow.

I like the scope, just wish I could find a cover for it so I could keep it in the garage. Right now I have to keep it in the basement and hauling it up the stairs everytime I want to go out and bringing it back downstairs after gazing is a pain sometimes.

I'm also worried about screwing up the optics on it from the trips up and down the stairs. Anyone know where there's a good (somewhat reasonably priced) cover for a 6" dob?

With all the replies to the thread, could someone make up a graph showing aperture size, type, etc., with the info on this thread?

For the record, I use a Meade DS-10 (10" newt). Mr Q

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Meade DS-10 (10" newt)
10x50, 10x70 binos

Wow! That's one heck of a dew shield! The tripod is also larger than I've usually seen on an LX200.

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Look at the dog. He's thinking, "he loves that thing more than me!"

C'mon, admit it.... you just put that thing on there to scare the neighbors....

"OMG Henry, call the Army and the Air Force... he's got that THING out again!!!"

I wonder if there's tea cozies on the eyepieces

Being that I have no light pollution whatsoever here in western KY, I prefer naked eye viewing of the cosmos.

I do, however, from time to time pull out the ol Criterion Dynascope RV6.

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I have an 8" TAL (200mm)

PS - dont touch the collector lens assembly!

That big tripod won't be very effective sitting on a wooden deck next to the house like that unless it's somehow isolated from vibrations, assuming the scope is used on that deck and not taken somewhere else.

Meade 10" LX90 UHTC LNT
Celestron C4.5 4.5" Newtonian (my first telescope)
Celestron C90 3.5" Mak Cass
Coronado PST

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About a 25 or so yr old 8" Celestron.

I have a cloned Meade SCT. It is a 10 inch LX50 OTA mounted into a used LX200GPS fork and base. I piggyback three different telescope on it:

1. A Meade 90mm ETX
2. A Coronado Helios 1 Hydrogen Alpha Solar Telescope, once used by NASA
3. an Orion ED80 APO refractor (shown) for superb economical planetary views.

I have 2.
An 8 inch Celestron SC on a goto mount
An 80 mm Orion short tube.

I have a Celestron Firstscope 3" newtonian and a 6" f/8 Dobsonian that I just completed two nights ago (little Subaru).

I have a 4 inch f/10 Meade refractor.

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Meade DS 2130-LNT ( 130mm )

Canon Rebel XT

A mothballed C-60 that I may yet turn into a (filtered!) solar telescope.

My newest acquisition is a marvelous XT-4.5, which I've barely put through her paces, since the weather and moonlight have been mediocre lately.

My weapon of choice is currently a lowly pair of 7x50s, though, which I may upgrade from in a year or so.

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