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Originally Posted by UniPol
I recall seeing these scopes in the early 1970's at Astro Optical in Crows Nest (then known as Amateur Astronomers Supply Co.) One of their catalogues from 1972 states the following :
[B]12 1/2" CASSEGRAIN - E.F.L. 200"
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Unipol, I remember well gazing at this instrument in the showroom as just a teenager in 1973. I simply couldn't imagine at the time a bigger telescope in amateur hands. What the Dobsonian revolution has done for the amateur astronomer has been phenomenal. $1350 would have been 1/3 of a years average wage in 1972. Now you could buy a portable 12" F5 Dob with 1.5 weeks wage
