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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 2857680, member: 76194&quot;]Sweet light bucket you got yourself there. A 10 inch dobsonian is no joke. You should be able to see Neptune and Uranus quite easily with it, and the rings of Saturn should really come alive with that huge telescope.</p><p><br /></p><p>Personally, Im going to stay small and easily portable. My plan is to eventually get a 6 inch schmidt-cassegrain telescope for observing deep sky objects and Neptune and Uranus as well. The beauty of the cassegrain telescope design is that you get telescopes capable of very high magnifications in a very small and compact package. My philosophy is that the easier it is to drag out and set up, the more it will get used, and the harder it is to carry outside and assemble, the less it will be used. Therefore I prefer lighter telescopes even if the views are not as great as the huge light buckets.</p><p><br /></p><p>I will also get a solid tripod and 15x70 binoculars for those nights I dont want to drag a telescope out and need something that&#039;s easy to set up...and I&#039;ll probably delegate my current 4.5 inch Orion Starblast telescope for light field duty, such as to drag once in a while to the astronomical observatory on Saturdays for the star parties, or to take on the road to state or federal parks for night astronomy in dark sky conditions. And naturally my new 7x50 binoculars will be hanging around my neck when the scopes or larger binoculars come out, as it will allow me to get wide field views of the sky to decide where I want to point my telescopes or larger binocular to.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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