[SJAAboard] Tom Frayne's 2 telescopes

[Rob Hawley]

Rich mostly expresses my sentiment as well.  

However, I believe a fast slew significantly helps a motorized scope's
usability. I would list at least as "highly desirable".  Even with my Meade
GPS I was frequently slewing especially during initial alignment.  

The Orion XT6 with DSCs we recently added does not have a motor and you can
move manually it as fast as you want.

We have a ton of Telrads so any scope where weight is not an issue can have
one.  

Rob Hawley 

>-----Original Message-----
>From: sjaaboard-bounces at sjaa.net [mailto:sjaaboard-bounces at sjaa.net] On
>Behalf Of Rich N
>Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 12:02 PM
>To: Business list for SJAA board of directors
>Subject: Re: [SJAAboard] Tom Frayne's 2 telescopes
>
>A couple of comments about DSCs and GOTO:
>
>1. not all scopes, SCT included, have to have either DSCs or GOTO to be
>useful
>    in our loaner program.  However, a Telrad is a big help on SCTs.
>
>2. with DSCs that don't get lost when the OTA is moved manually, you don't
>    need an 8x or faster slew.  You can slew by hand.
>
>