On Saturday, December 1, 2018 at 9:37:16 PM UTC-7, RichA wrote:
$3500 for 3 inches, and tiny sensor.

https://vaonis.com/telescopes

But it won *design awards*! Unlike those horrid ugly telescopes that offer more
aperture for the dollar. And it _is_ a refractor, and conventional refractors
are expensive anyways.

ED doublet with lanthanum glass - not quite an apo, but in the semi-apo class.

So they did _try_ to make the price not totally ridiculous.

John Savard