helloim new to this sight however i love stargazing and want a usefull 10 in scope i have a 600 mm starter ive had since i was 18 but its useless but im aware...
Greetings, I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "track moving objects" but if you mean astrophotography then dobs probably wouldn't be your best choice. You'd...
Hi I made a mistake and kept the telescope covered after a night out in a rainy environment. I now have fungus on the mirror and the tube stinks. How do I...
Hassaan called members of LAST to his Raiwind Road home on Friday June 26th for a star watching event. Omer, Umair, Irfan, Behzad, Azhar, and myself gladly...
This seems to be a pretty quiet group but I know there are a number of you out there with the PDHQ 8", F/7 Discovery. I am considering this as my next scope....
Hi Akarsh, Sounds like you need to wash your mirror. Not to worry, we all need to wash our mirrors from time to time and there's a lot of information out there...
Greetings, I am looking for a copy of a Discovery PDHQ user's guide. As the PDHQ models are all pretty much the same, specific apertures don't matter. If it is...
Hello Akarsh, I had to wash my mirror aswell after 6 months of heavy duty use. I left the Truss outside in the winter for a week, temperature where aroud -10...
Hi Mike Thanks a lot for the information. Someone located this site for me: http://www.mapug-astronomy.net/AstroDesigns/MAPUG/CleanOps.htm#fungus It tells me...
Hi at all, I'm new in this group. Yesterday I've yust ordered a new dobson Discovery 17,5" F/5 with mirror in borofloat that are very similar at pyrex, it has...
Hello, Welcome and congrats with your order. Is that the famous Schott borofloat? Bill from Discovery told me this is the new material for his big dobs... When...
Be carefull not to damage your coatings. Make sure to check CN. there is a similar issue as yours. Bleach and alcohol will damage the aluminium. One gave as...
Hi Akarsh, The process in the link you provided looks sound. I am not a chemist so don't feel qualified to comment on your floor cleaner other than to say I...
Dear Mike: I purchased an 8" PDHQ in aug of 07 direct from discovery. The scope is available in f/7 or f/6 . I went with the f/6 because its 6" shorter in...
... I just pointed my freshly de-fungussed and cleaned 17.5" f/5 PDHQ to Jupiter and collimated it to reasonable extent. I'm loving the view - it's nothing...
Thank you for helping me clean my mirror. I bought a disinfectant floor-cleaning solution of Benzalkonium Chloride that goes by the name "Dazzl" and a...
Really appreciate your candor darcyr8941. I remember having issues with my 12.5" a couple of years before you but like you I managed to work through them. At...
Unlike you guys my 17,5 arrived a morning in November 2008 and I gave it its first light the same evening. The design is super, moves like butter and had no...
... From statistics that I gathered during my wait, it's very very unlikely that you'll get your dob in 3 months. But I just returned from my 3rd successful...
Nonono, it will be longer than 3 months. However, the wait is the most exciting time: full anticipation and after 3 months you will write a mail to Bill asking...
Hi Mike, I received my 8" f/7 back in 2002. This was back in the days when Astronomics sold the Discovery line. The 8" mirror was perfect for my suburban...
Anyone here have any experience with this scope, esp. the f4.2 version? Overall, how are the quality of discovery scopes these days? I've been away from this...
I am wondering the same thing since Terry O is no longer with Discovery. Am wondering how the new mirrors measure up to the older ones like mine. Very happy...
Thanks a lot Mike ... From: Mike Parker To: Discovery-Dob-Users@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 8:15 PM Subject: [DDU] Re: 8" F/7 owners Hi Mike,...
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