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NewGalileo Dobsonian Telescope - 135mm 1.8 Barlow lens
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NewRokinon Dobsonian Table-top Telescope 300 x 76mm +
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Orion SkyQuest XT10 Classic Dobsonian Telescope
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NewGALILEO TABLETOP 500MM X 80MM DOBSONIAN TELESCOPE
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Orion SkyQuest XT8 Dobsonian Telescope *BRAND NEW*
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Telescope Dobsonian Skywatcher 200mm 8" Parts
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NewRokinon Dobsonian Table-top Telescope 300 x 76mm +
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NewGalileo DB-160 1300mm x 160mm Dobsonian Telescope
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NewGALILEO DOBSONIAN WOOD BASE (FROM #DB135 1100MMX135MM)
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NewRokinon Dobsonian Table-top Telescope 300 x 76mm +
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NewNew 76mm Dobsonian Table-top Telescope
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12.5" F6 TRUSS-TUBE DOBSONIAN TELESCOPE - $750
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NewRokinon Dobsonian Table-top Telescope 300 x 76mm +
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NewRokinon Dobsonian Table-top Telescope 300 x 76mm +
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Dobsonian


The consultation “Dobsonian” comes from the everyone of astronomy. Specifically it refers to an astronomer named John Dobson. Most typically, it’s acclimated to to refer to a philosophy of telescope model John Dobson pioneered and popularized. Most conventionally, it’s used to refer to the overall values of observing, of approaching astronomy, that Dobson promoted. I’m contemporary to be talking briefly about all three usages today.

When I was growing up in McKinley Parking-lot on the south side of Chicago, the neighborhood was one of those hush, safe places where people didn’t power their doors. My friend and I often set up our telescopes on the sidewalk out front and regurgitate the whole night observing. Now and then people would walk by and finish and ask what we were doing or police cruising days would stop to see what we were doing. We’d always show people Jupiter or Saturn and almost without umbrage at it would be a very cool moment where they’d look through the compress and their eyes would go wide and they’d look back to the sky as if they couldn’t swear by the simple, tiny point of inane was actually a beautiful, almost unimaginably ample gas giant planet.

That kind of affair is so much fun—introducing people to the wonders of the heavens—that a pandemic phenomenon sprung up a couple of decades back called “Pavement Astronomy.” Experienced astronomers, professionals and amateurs, set up telescopes on sidewalks in urban areas and dish out the evening showing people paradisaic wonders.

John Dobson was the guiding elucidate behind this movement. And because “normal” telescopes regularly fail to deliver naked eye views that look anything like what people conjecture from photographs of the heavens, Dobson wholly re-imagined how a telescope could be designed and built so that people would really see things with their naked eyes that look as pleasing as photographs of the heavens.

Before I talk about Dobsonian telescopes—Dobs,...

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