[Chaos-l] Telescope Advice: New Celestron NexStars or Used Celestron Ultima 2000

[Vaughn Jett]

--- Derek Williams <derekwilliams5 at gmail.com> wrote:
>    total weight ~50 lbs). Moreover, this scope can
> be easily pointed manually
>    without concerns of stripping gears while also
> keeping its positioning to
>    continue using GoTo. It seems like the new
> NexStars rely completely on the
>    computer and motor to drive them.

If this is true, I'd go with the older one that can be
hand-slewed.  ("Hand-slewn"?  You can slew it by
hand.) I'd want to have that option.  You never know
when something might go wrong with the drive system,
and you shouldn't be crippled if it happens.


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