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Orion UP20 Premium UltraPortable Truss Dobsonian Review

Review of Orion UP20 Premium UltraPortable Truss Dobsonian.

Price: 8,299.95 USD
Manufacturer: Orion
Orion UP20 Premium UltraPortable Truss Dobsonian – Product Warranty: One year
Type of Product: Telescopes > UltraPortable Truss Dobsonians

At Orion, we really like telescopes. In fact, you might say we’ve never met a telescope we didn’t like, since all of them have different strengths and can excel in different applications. Every telescope design has such a “sweet spot,” a combination of design choices and parameters that make it excel at particular astronomical tasks. In the case of the Orion’s UP20 Premium UltraPortable Dobsonian telescope, the sweet spot is a design optimized to offer serious observers a high-quality, large-aperture telescope experience for deep sky observing in a very portable package. Why would you choose an Orion UP20? Simply put, “Aperture Rules.” Aperture is king when it comes to deep sky observing; the evidence is all around you. What type of scope allows you to tease out the most detail in a deep sky object? Usually the biggest Dobsonian available. Where are the biggest lines at star parties? The queue to look through those big Dobs. What kind of scope lets you most easily track down and confirm those faint Hickson Group and anonymous galaxies? A big Dobsonian, usually the bigger the better.