Paul,
Your friend may want to check out the Celestron 8SE reflector. It’s an easy to
set up scope and use for visual observing and runs about $1100.00 retail. A
heavier equatorial may be more than he wants in terms of mount weight and polar
alignment set up. I currently use a Celestron 9.25” OTA and only get slightly
better visual performance than my 8” OTA. The 9.25” inch weighs more and a bit
more tedious to reassemble to the mount.
I’ll be glad to answer any other questions you may have.
Jim Sellers
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On Mar 4, 2019, at 8:42 PM, L Knauth <Knauth@xxxxxxx> wrote:--
I have a friend (about age 70) who wants to buy a telescope for visual
observing and has asked me for recommendations. I have never been in the
market for small telescopes and don't know what would be best. He can spend
about $1,000. He obviously can't heft around anything too large, but I
suspect he'll lose interest fast with the limited views he could get with
small aperture refractors. I think he needs some aperture and GoTo ability
and certainly clock drive. Orion has this 8" reflector on a GoTo equatorial
mount which would probably give him good enough views to fulfill his desires.
I am a bit concerned about image quality at f 4.9 and have never seen one of
these in action. Any comments from you visual observers?
Paul Knauth
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