Meeting Details: April 21, 2000

April 21, 2000: John Kirchoff (Rider’s Hobby Shop) “Recent Developments in Amateur Astronomy Hardware.”

John Kirchoff brought a van load of demo items including some of the very latest and greatest. Among them:

• The Teleview 38mm Type 5 Nagler! [No words can describe the eyepiece to end all eyepieces!]
• The Orion “giant” telescope binoculars 25 x125 mm (recently reviewed in Astronomy).
• The Celestron Nexstar 5” or 8” computerized SCTs. (See pp. 54-63 and back cover of February, 2000 issue of Sky and Telescope).
• The Orion Skyquest Dobs with the altitude spring tensioner. (Top rated in last summer’s Sky and Telescope dob shootout. If you’re going to get started, why not start at the top?)
• Orion Short Tube — Affordable rich field “Cluster Busters” that go anywhere in a suitcase!
• Eyepieces by Kendrich, Orion, Vixen, Teleview Nagler, Celestron.
• Digital setting circles for dobs — don’t leave home without one!

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