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Index of Subjects ------=_Part_14099_23315907.1207860052606 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Hi, I don't know that particular model, but I suspect that if you buy him a telescope for that price it will be hard to look through, he field of view will be very limited, and the image will be poor and fuzzy. If he expects to look through it and see images of nebulae, galaxies and planets like those on the web or in books he's likely to be disappointed. Far better to get him a reasonable pair of binoculars. If he has really set his heart on a telescope, either save up a thousand or two dollars for a decent one, or at least make sure he fully understands the limitations of a cheap one. (BTW, same principles apply to beginner birders). Richard On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 5:09 PM, David & Alison Webster <dwebster@glinx.com> wrote: > Dear All Stargazers, Apr 10, 2008 > Our 11 year-old grandson who is very keen on stars, planets, astronomy > etc wants a telescope and has settled on a Canadian Tire TASCO 675X > ($199.99). > > Can anyone comment on whether this is a good buy for the price or as > Giles says, "Merry Junk' ? > > Yours truly, Dave Webster, Kentville > > > -- ################# Dr.Richard Stern, 70 Exhibition St. Kentville, NS, Canada B4N 4K9 Richard Stern, 317 Middle Dyke Rd. Port Williams, NS, Canada B0P 1T0 rbstern@ns.sympatico.ca rbstern@xcountry.tv sternrichard@gmail.com ################### ------=_Part_14099_23315907.1207860052606 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Hi,<br><br>I don't know that particular model, but I suspect that if you buy him a telescope for that price it will be hard to look through, he field of view will be very limited, and the image will be poor and fuzzy. If he expects to look through it and see images of nebulae, galaxies and planets like those on the web or in books he's likely to be disappointed. Far better to get him a reasonable pair of binoculars. If he has really set his heart on a telescope, either save up a thousand or two dollars for a decent one, or at least make sure he fully understands the limitations of a cheap one. (BTW, same principles apply to beginner birders).<br> <br>Richard<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 5:09 PM, David & Alison Webster <dwebster@glinx.com> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Dear All Stargazers, Apr 10, 2008<br> Our 11 year-old grandson who is very keen on stars, planets, astronomy etc wants a telescope and has settled on a Canadian Tire TASCO 675X ($199.99).<br> <br> Can anyone comment on whether this is a good buy for the price or as Giles says, "Merry Junk' ?<br> <br> Yours truly, Dave Webster, Kentville<br> <br> <br> </blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>#################<br>Dr.Richard Stern, <br>70 Exhibition St.<br>Kentville, NS, Canada<br>B4N 4K9<br><br>Richard Stern, <br>317 Middle Dyke Rd.<br>Port Williams, NS, Canada<br> B0P 1T0<br><br>rbstern@ns.sympatico.ca
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