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Can I just defend the honour of Astronz? I certainly wouldn't describe $1900 as a ripoff price for a twelve inch telescope, especially if the optics are as good as they are in my Astronz ten inch. You need to realise that New Zealand is a smaller market than Australia and a greater distance from Taiwan, where the telescopes are made. I think astronomers are obliged to the folks at the Auckland Astronomical Society for establishing this company and securing this equipment. On one level comparisons with the past are irrelevant, but try looking back twenty or thirty years and seeing what you'd have paid for a telescope then.
Enjoy those dark skies.
cheers
jim
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