Tim,

We have an ETX-125 and are pretty happy with it. Having over 30 years of experience with
telescopes, I find the 125 to work adequately.

Optically, it looks very good. we have had good planetary views and the star images do not
look too bad. I have not made any specific tests. Mechanically, it is rather noisy, and we
have had some trouble with set-up alignment and tracking in polar mode. We are still getting
used to it, and it may be we are doing something wrong in the set-up. Sometimes it works fine,
sometimes alignment fails. I will have to try some more tests.

Once alignment is done, the 125 is pretty good at finding objects. They are usually in a
wide-field eyepiece view. There have been a couple times when it could not find the Moon <g>,
it is easy to see by eye, but much harder to compute a location, especially if your time is
set wrong.

We got the 125 so my wife, Janet, will have a scope that is driven and will "goto". We have
larger 'scopes, but they are a pain to get outside for just looking-around type observing.
Even on the field tripod, I can carry the whole unit out of the garage for observing.

Clear skies!

- Bert

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Name: Bert Stevens
Date: 12/10/1999
Time: 8:52:03 AM

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