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It has been suggested it’s made by a company called Bosma, also from China, but that’s just a rumour at this stage.
I’d love to read a review too. I suppose this is pretty much direct competition for the 8” SCTs, rather than the Meade 7” Mak or 10” SCT, both of which also have c. 100" focal lengths, but are much more expensive.
Andrews has an add in the September Aus Sky & Tel for the OTA for $1199, which I think includes rings finder & a diagonal, but that may be wrong. By way of comparison, and without looking very hard the best 8” SCT OTA prices I could find were $1697 for the Celestron (telescopes-astronomy) and $1579 for the Meade (bintel). Assuming you don’t already have the rings (compatible dovetail etc) then that’s still an OK discount.
Quality I suppose will be the key.
Regards, Mike
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