16" Truss Tube Dobsonian - Generation II (DOB1645-00)

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Available from Cloudbreak Optics when we last checked, in the last two days. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

Description This is a Generation II telescope . All updates have been performed on this telescope. No telescope type has changed the hobby quite as much as the Dobsonian. Before the popularization of the Dobsonian by John Dobson, the vast majority of amateur telescopes consisted of small telescopes with primitive mechanics - barely enough to see the polar caps of Mars or the rings of Saturn. Larger telescopes, such as the Schmidt-Cassegrain were reserved for the wealthy. The ingenious combinatio