[AZ-Observing] Orion Telescope Monsters
- From: "Cary B. Grant," <cbgrant@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 21:05:47 -0700
Today I received an e-mail from Orion with an interesting ad: their new line of
open truss dobsonians. I had to click on the web link to see the scopes - 36"
for $55,600, 40" for $80,000, and a 50" for $123,000. The ad says "The premium
optics and light-gathering of telescopes found in observatories and
universities are now brought to your home by Orion."
At those prices, if I brought one of those babies home, I couldn't afford to
make my house payment! Realistically, in this economy or any economy, how many
of these scopes does Orion expect to sell to the average amateur astronomer?
It will take a club or an organization to afford these or is Orion going into
the telescope mortgage business.
I was expecting an extension of the SkyQuest line perhaps up to 20" but this is
well beyond that. I'm amazed and wondering what are they thinking? Maybe they
only have to sell one a year to make a profit.
Cary
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