[AZ-Observing] Re: Orion Telescope Monsters
- From: Rick Tejera <saguaroastro@xxxxxxx>
- To: "az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 21:13:27 -0700
If you Ted the entire page, you'll see they are custom built after
they' be been paid for.
So it't not like they'd be carrying inventory.
I imagine there will be few well heeled folks who'll just have to have
one.
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Rick Tejera
Editor, SACnews
Saguaro Astronomy Club
www.saguaroastro.org
K7TEJ
On Jan 5, 2010, at 21:05, "Cary B. Grant," <cbgrant@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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