From: Guy Brandenburg 
To: Clive Milne 
CC:  atm{at}shore.net
Reply-To: Guy Brandenburg 


If amateur-accessible scopes (a la Peter Chen's experiments) were that
light, then an equatorial mount would make sense - and you could even have
it on a 'springfield' mount, I guess, so you wouldn't have to move! Guy B

Clive Milne wrote:
>  "Shane LaPierre"  wrote:
> Carbon fiber mirrors
>
>>and 1/2 meter telescopes that weight in at 45 lbs total.
>>If I can continue  the dream it will cost around $1000 usd.
>
>
>      I'm not sure that carbon fibre primary mirrors will serve that
> much purpose in a conventional dobsonian as the centre of gravity will
> shift to an inconvenient location.  I see carbon fibre secondaries
> as being an interesting option for the opposite reason.
>
>  ~Clive.
>

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