[gregbradley]

14,000 Euros would make it about AUD$27,000 landed. Hardly bang for your buck. There would be far better alternatives. They should hold off on the larger RCs until its completely certain their scopes are fully matured as designs and not a work in progress for someone else to complete. Unless the Aussie price is lower as that was Europe and they tend to have higher prices than we do.

$27K though puts it up against some seriously good scopes. TOA150 setup, AP140/155 both with a good camera, Planewave CDK 14 or its competitors IDK and Officina Stellare may start around there. FSQ130 and a good camera.

Add on a large mount to handle it (PME, AP1600, I don't know what else, Planewave Ascension, ASA DDMM ) and you're up over $50K for a GSO setup. Trash the focuser and throw in a FLI Atlas or at least a feathertouch and you're up another 4Gs.

Still it would be 20 inch. If you could overcome the inevitable half dones on the system then it could be good. The good thing about the GSO's as Paul has shown the optics seem fine.

Haven't seen any other GSO RC 12's or above images other than Pauls though.

Greg.