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Well, this scope takes the cake
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Well, this scope takes the cake
On Saturday, December 1, 2018 at 8:37:16 PM UTC-8, RichA wrote:
$3500 for 3 inches, and tiny sensor. https://vaonis.com/telescopes Cheaper than the Tesla car? |
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Well, this scope takes the cake
On Saturday, December 1, 2018 at 11:37:16 PM UTC-5, RichA wrote:
$3500 for 3 inches, and tiny sensor. https://vaonis.com/telescopes A Google search on your phone can find much better images, all the time, not just at night. |
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Well, this scope takes the cake
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 |
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On Saturday, December 8, 2018 at 6:07:01 AM UTC-5, Quadibloc wrote:
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 A famous telescope vendor has a roughly similar telescope, optically and mechanically, for about $1500. For another $500 you can get a better camera. The whole thing won't win the same design awards, but it should work fine. You would also be able to easily detach the OTA and use it on a more portable mount, or use the existing mount to hold some other telescope, which you can buy with leftover $1500. |
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