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Originally Posted by Gama
Be happy to buy 1/12 wave WHAT ?.. RMS, Peak to valley, Wave at Kuma Beach Surf club!!.. Doesnt specify, so your paying $$ for WHAT ???. I dont know.. This can make the whopping difference.
Also as said, "You get what you pay for", so you must be getting a Premium scope for such low pricing..Hmmm, doesnt sort of make sense.
Jeeees guys, its good to get hyped up, but the ship hasnt docked yet, so lets not start unloading cargo..
I would like to know the real surface accuracy and also optical alignment and its ability to keep it during the night, yada yada..
This is why (And i hate to say it) the RC's do cost money. Maybe Peter Ward may explain a tad as he would have the figures tatood in his brain.
The secondary is most likely to be 50%, as thats what the cheaper RC optics use to get around costs on manufacturing.
Im not selling my pin hole telescope yet... Now excuse me while i move back into the shadows..
Theo
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Hi Theo.
Appreciate the input.
I can assure you I'm not getting hyped up...but I don't think there's any harm in enjoying our hobby and revelling for just a moment in the thrill of 'affordable' new gear with possibly great optics being released.
When I say 1/12th wave, I'm assuming they are referring to the same measure as Celestron refers to when they guarantee their SCTs to be at least 1/4 wave and GSO when it refers to its mirrors being 1/12th wave.
When I say 'you get what you pay for'...that wasn't to imply the pricing of this new scope is in any way a guide to the quality of the optics. Certainly...a premium RC scope attracts a premium price.
But that is not to say prices are the only guide to an instrument's 'quality'. Look at what has happened with the Dob/ Newtonian market and companies such as GS and Synta. No...they are not what you might describe as premium products, but they are still very good and priced in a manner which would have been unthinkable 10-20 years ago.
I guess it's all relative, isn't it? Let's not shoot it all down in flames before we've had a chance to have a better look. As Fahim says, the proof of the pudding will be in how it performs once it's released.
