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Comment:
Sky Rover telescopes are manufactured and marketed in China, we are welcome to purchase from the Chinese webpage supplier. I reviewed the pricing of the Chinese with an Australian supplier who stocks these same telescopes, and I found the prices are the same.
I consider that purchasing with local Australian backup from someone that I find a very knowledgeable supplier a benefit against dealing with a Chinese webpage supplier, as you may need to ask in purchase/ after sales questions, and the Chinese aren’t great at answering technical astronomy questions.
However this is NOT my reason for posting here.
I have two Sky Rover’s, my units share one thing in common with the Chinese webpage units - its tube. This is where the similarities end.
My units are from a different series of this portfolio from the Australian supplier. These are higher spec bespoke hand crafted units, not Chinese mass produced units. My units use the same tube (only) made by United Kunming. The Australian supplier outfits this tube with a different focuser and bespoke hand crafted lens cell & optics. My units are claimed to use SFPL55 and Strehl 0.98+, and tests (conducted @ Carl Zeiss Jena) confirm exactly that glass spec & Strehl.
I queried one of the people on this thread who made extremely damaging comments regarding the Australian supplier, he didn’t bother to respond to me. I call him on that - two weeks later - and no reply to my Private Message (hey man, not good).
I spoke to the Australian supplier of this portfolio and he didn’t recognise this person’s handle and was unaware of his existence, he said he didn’t know him and hadn’t met or had any conversations with him. Interesting ?
I just thought I would somewhat re level this thread - as I thought the comments in this thread are inappropriate.
The Australian supplier of my two Sky Rover’s - I have known him from working in the same profession (global auto, but for competing mfgr’s) for decades. I know him quite well. I studied alongside him together doing my optical physics & metrology degree 25 years ago, but he’s cleverer than I am. But I am not here to market him, if you have questions do your own homework.
My approach was to discuss with him in depth his designs & gear, and as both being metrologists & physicists we had a very robust discussion, most illuminating. Having done this I was impressed enough to invest in a bespoke Sky Rover 130 and 155 with hand crafted SFPL55 optics (tested @ CZJ at 0.988 & 0.986), both fitting Starlight FTF3535 focusers, which focusers I recognised instantly as that’s what I run on my AP 130 and 160 that I have had in my obsy in the states for two decades. I have been into astronomy for five decades.
I won’t discredit the person who wrote the damaging claims about the Australian supplier, I will instead leave it up to you the reader to reach your own opinion. As a yank I don’t like unlevel playing fields, thereby my authoring this here, and recommending to those considering any product - do your homework.
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