TAL telecopes

[Argonavis]

anyone have any experience with TAL telescopes?

They appear fairly expensive, which may explain why I don't know anyone who owns one.


http://www.aoe.com.au/tal150pm.html

[Jazza]

Yup, I've got one (TAL 150m), excellent first scope I find... optics are very good, and the finder is more like a mini refractor in it's own right :)
very sturdy mount, but the model I have only has ra drive, and no guiding possible (well hand guiding might be if you're very good with slow motion controls...).