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For a Bino with wide view, you don't really need to spend the $$$ on an expensive precision slow motion head like the 410. your ball head, if not undersized should do nicely and facilitate quick scanning....

rich

dew wrote:umm.. huh? so how much is one? $380 pr $220? hmm... you think can find a photo store in malaysia that might stock?

yikes! was wondering where the $380 came from when I realised it was from me! its a typo. I meant to say "$180" second hand..

rich

Wow, 75mm huh :shock: , I think you were much better off than most of us who only managed 50mm or 60mm at most when we were in P6 ... rich kid huh :lol: :lol: :lol: 8) I only bought my first scope, an Eduscience 114mm reflector from Toys R Us 2 years ago when I first re-kindled my astronomy interes...

Only 4 scopes for me,
a small get-up-and go scope like the ETX90, a small short tube refractor for wide views, a medium 4" goto scope, and an 8" LX200
of course, having a big vehicle and house would have helped also..
time to check those big sweep tickets

there's an easier way....ask all 70 members to access yahoo.com and search for singastro.org. each member does it a few times and walla! enough "hits" to qualify for a position in the priority list!

CC, just a comment. Make sure it has a secondary dew heater. If you bring this to Mersing, no way it's gonna survive with all those dew. That is IF they are able to bring the whole setup down! With Wira's BIg Meade in his trunk, how to squeeze the 16.1" "giant" in let alone through t...

There are70 members now, so how come many are keeping so quiet on the forums?

rich

yup ok.. you can just e-mail me when you decide.. to anyone else seeing this i'm still looking for the manfrotto 410 head or any equivilant alt-az mount.. thanks! eu-wen aiyahh..I was at Funan today and tried to call you to see if you wanted me to buy the 410 head and 190 tripod for you but your ph...

Have this website get sumitted to the search engines? :roll: Unless I am wrong, the Search Engine works according to 2 methods, the first being their own bot scouring the web for us AND number of requests made for this site through yahoo. If you type "Singapore Astronomy" under yahoo, you...

i wanted to get that scope.. but orion only ships to n.america and canada, very troublesome. and i heard that china scopes can be quite inconsistent, quite scared that the 2nd batch of telescope wont be up to the standard of the first one.. maybe i should just play save and get remus's 2nd hand fc ...