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Questar should have made a 5" Mak-Cass
On Thursday, September 21, 2017 at 5:58:42 PM UTC-6, wrote:
To get back on topic.......Questar has made 5.25 inch prototypes. But they cannot keep pace with the orders for 7s now. My 3.5 is over 30 years and still going strong. Tremendous service support; maybe the best in the industry. That's the thing. If Questar were an ordinary manufacturer of telescopes at ordinary prices, making something larger than 3.5" - small enough that observing possibilities are limited - and smaller than 7" - too heavy and expensive for a Maksutov-Cassegrain - would make sense, as such a size would be more likely to be popular. But because they aim at very high quality, the number of telescopes they can make is limited. In the sizes they _do_ make, they're getting more demand than they can handle, as you've noted. And because of the price premium, how popular any given size might be can't be assumed to be the same as what one sees in the sales of telescopes that are much lower in price. Even so, I suspect that a 5.25" might be their next product, and if so, it will be very successful. But I'm not holding my breath - it may be more than ten years before it happens. John Savard |
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Questar should have made a 5" Mak-Cass
On Thursday, 21 September 2017 22:53:40 UTC-4, Quadibloc wrote:
On Thursday, September 21, 2017 at 5:58:42 PM UTC-6, wrote: To get back on topic.......Questar has made 5.25 inch prototypes. But they cannot keep pace with the orders for 7s now. My 3.5 is over 30 years and still going strong. Tremendous service support; maybe the best in the industry. That's the thing. If Questar were an ordinary manufacturer of telescopes at ordinary prices, making something larger than 3.5" - small enough that observing possibilities are limited - and smaller than 7" - too heavy and expensive for a Maksutov-Cassegrain - would make sense, as such a size would be more likely to be popular. But because they aim at very high quality, the number of telescopes they can make is limited. In the sizes they _do_ make, they're getting more demand than they can handle, as you've noted. And because of the price premium, how popular any given size might be can't be assumed to be the same as what one sees in the sales of telescopes that are much lower in price. Even so, I suspect that a 5.25" might be their next product, and if so, it will be very successful. But I'm not holding my breath - it may be more than ten years before it happens. John Savard I'm glad they took my advice. https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/5...estar-5/page-6 |
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