Re: Revelation 12" Dobsonian Telescope

* Roger Hembury <roger.hembury@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> Would the following telescope be any good for deep space and planet viewing?

<URL:http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robin.scagell/reviews/Revelation12.html>
might be worth a read. There's a longer version of that review in the
current issue of /Popular Astronomy/.

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