In a message dated 7/28/2004 9:49:51 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Only if it is so big that the telescope requires you to buy a flatbed truck to move should you consider any other factor more important than aperture . . .
What about which one is easier to hide in the cab of a truck, and just how far away is that nudist colony anyway?
There's always a strange exception to the rule, if you don't rule out exceptionally strange people.
My answer was based on my _professional_ expertise. YMMV if you have other interests or hobbies . . .
-- Ronn! :)
Ronn Blankenship Instructor of Astronomy/Planetary Science University of Montevallo Montevallo, AL
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