Dobsonian telescope
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title:
Dobsonian telescope
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A Dobsonian telescope is an altazimuth-mounted Newtonian telescope design popularized by John Dobson in 1965 and credited with vastly increasing the size of telescopes available to amateur astronomers. Dobson's telescopes featured a simplified mechanical design that was easy to manufacture from readily available components to create a large, portable, low-cost telescope. The design is optimized for observing faint, deep-sky objects such as nebulae and galaxies. This type of observation requires
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Type of Newtonian telescope popularized by John Dobson
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobsonian_telescope
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2024-02-05T18:23:21Z
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