Orion cuts 80mm ED price to $399

You mean Orion is not an asshole?



moT wrote:

"moT" wrote in message
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"RichA" wrote in message
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Way to go Skywatcher!!

SKYWATCHER is NOT ORION ASSHOLE!!

Also, ORION 80ED is 499 at wild bird

http://www.buytelescopes.com/product...asp?t=1&page=3


My appologies. The Orion web site states the sale. Yippeeee!!

Subject: Orion cuts 80mm ED price to $399
From: "moT"
Date: 11/15/2004 11:09 PM Eastern Standard Time
Message-id: h4fmd.103343$VA5.33724@clgrps13


I guess. Anyway, getting a scope with such a short FL is POINTLESS.
Why? Because you CANNOT balance it when attaching a camera.
It uses a crayfish focuser and even with a star diagonal there is too much
weight
and not enough length to compensate.
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Ah think he meant crawfish ....

"Brian Tung" wrote in message
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Mick wrote:
It uses a crayfish focuser...

The mind boggles.

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Must be bad scopes or new model is coming out, so they reducing
inventory!!!!!

JS

Doubt that.. The competition from Skywatcher and Celestron is finally hitting
the market place..

jon

It just doesn't get much better than that.

Rumor has it our little buddy from Calgary has been eyeballing a Meade
ETX-125 with Autostar Crustacean for Christmas.

That or a new pair of 15x50 Nikon Barnacles.



Only an IDIOT would make some kind of wild speculation on someone
they know nothing about. That is mind boggling!

-The crayford crawfish

Jon Isaacs wrote:
Must be bad scopes or new model is coming out, so they reducing
inventory!!!!!

JS


Doubt that.. The competition from Skywatcher and Celestron is
finally hitting the market place..

jon

Exactly - both of which appear to be well under the $500 mark.
Sounds like a pretty smart move from Orion.

I hear the Celestron has a rack and pinion focuser, as opposed to
Orion and Skywatcher's umm... "crawfish"? ;-) I don't see it taking
off quite as well if the others are available at less or equal cost.

I ordered my Orion a couple of weeks ago, just after the price
dropped to EUR 499 here in Europe. That'll probably come back to
bite me if the sale/price reduction filters over this way...

--Steve

"moT" wrote in message
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Only an IDIOT would make some kind of wild speculation on someone
they know nothing about. That is mind boggling!

-The crayford crawfish


I was thinking of one of those 1/40th wave starfish diagonals, wadda ya
think?

Ed T.

I tried one of those but the view was so narrow, I got a bad case of Carpel
tunnel vision.

-Paul S. Walsh


"Ed T" wrote in message
k.net...

"moT" wrote in message
news:n_omd.179427$9b.166573@edtnps84...
Only an IDIOT would make some kind of wild speculation on someone
they know nothing about. That is mind boggling!

-The crayford crawfish


I was thinking of one of those 1/40th wave starfish diagonals, wadda ya
think?

Ed T.

"Brian Tung" wrote

Mick wrote:
It uses a crayfish focuser...

The mind boggles.

This newsgroup has become incredibly entertaining of late! BTW, ask Jan
Owen: I came up with "Crayfish" quite some time ago.

X

"Howard Lester" wrote in message
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"Brian Tung" wrote

Mick wrote:
It uses a crayfish focuser...

The mind boggles.

This newsgroup has become incredibly entertaining of late! BTW, ask Jan
Owen: I came up with "Crayfish" quite some time ago.

X

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