a nice suprise

[rickolson62]

hello folks! my brother in law expressed interest in viewing so a couple of years ago i got him an old orion 6" dob, deep space explorer
for christmass, he loved it! but i knew it was a bit of a pain to use and got him a zhumell 8" i found at a pretty good price. well of course
he loved that even better, and i wound up with the 6" back. i use an old orange tube C8 and and think it's awesome! but i collimated the 6"
(best i could with that secondary) and WOW! this is a great little scope! jup, a was great at 80X detail was way more than i expected for
this little dob! so much so i'm thinking of rebuilding it and keeping it myself! so did i just get lucky with the optics or were these built that good?



Rick

[KingNothing13]

Don't really have an answer, but from what I've read about the Orion's - they are hit-or-miss...some are great, some are not.

[Greenman]

Sounds like karma to me.

[Lady Fraktor]

A 6" mirror is usually quite good and a practical size as well. They are often overlooked as people lean towards bigger is better.
Enjoy the views

[helicon]

Sounds really great Rick. Glad you are loving that 6" piece of glass!

[rickolson62]

thanks guys! i did some reading and it turns out these were "pre china" and over seen by Terry Ostahowski at Discovery who made the optics for orion at that time. so the optics have a excellent rating for a mass produced mirror. gonna be a fun project to upgrade!!