Product Features :
- 254mm aperture and 1200mm focal length for glorious views of the moon planets galaxies and nebulas
- The ultra stable Dobsonian base keeps the tube perfectly balanced for point and view ease of use
- Now includes an upgraded 2 Crayford style focuser that accepts 1 25 and 2 eyepieces
- Includes 25mm Sirius Plossl eyepiece EZ Finder II reflex sight collimation cap and FREE Starry Night astronomy software
- Big aperture optics point and view ease of use out of this world value
>> XT10 amazing views for reasonable
This is the first product review I ve ever written After my first viewing session I felt compelled to share my experience with potential purchasers of the Orion XT10 Assembly was fairly straight forward with well written instructions This scope is great for someone new to star gazing like myself It only took me a few minutes to find my first target Saturn I was amazed to not only see the rings but to also see two moons with the low magnification 25mm eyepiece supplied with the telescope I look foward to viewing with higher powered eyepieces I have an 15mm and 5mm on order My only regret with this purchase is that I didn t make it sooner This scope is awesome
>> I ve Reviewed the XT6 XT8 Might as Well review this one also
That s right I own an Orion XT6 XT8 and XT10 I use them for leading seminars I seem to buy a new one each year So far I have always kept the previous one I can probably compare them as well as anyone They are all sitting side by side in my shed For the purpose of this review I will compare the XT8 XT10
REASONS TO PURCHASE THE XT10
Larger aperture Yes it makes a big difference It was worth the money to take a step up in size Some views that were beyond the grasp of my 6 and only located with my 8 are now easy to see in my 10
REASONS TO PURCHASE THE XT8
Money There is a jump in cost Both the 8 and 10 are powerful enough to do serious astronomy Both are good scopes Both should last for years There is always a bigger scope out there for a few more dollars One must draw the line somewhere
Weight In my mind the 8 is the largest of the truly inexpensive portable dobs and the smallest of the large aperture light buckets The 6 is a wonderful scope I don t intend to let go of it but I wouldn t call it a large aperture scope The 10 is a light bucket but I wouldn t call it easily portable The 8 is both I have the strength to move my 10 but noticed that I wasn t using it as much Then I purchased a garden cart to haul it around in and now I use it several times a week It wasn t that I couldn t pick it up it was just awkward and I was worried that I was going to break it
BOTTOM LINE
If you have the money and don t need to lug it around a lot get the 10 I m glad I did
If the cost is prohibitive or you need to move it around a lot get the 8 All three are excellent scopes
If you lead regular astronomy seminars and need some good quality dobs so you can create teams of three or four students per scope get them all That s what I did until my wife tells me that one of them must go
>> Awesome telescope more than worth the money
This is a great telescope I highly recommend it The only drawback to it is its size but the size aides in its stability All in all it is a fantastic product
