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It's OTA is pretty heavy (64lbs == 29kg)
The AUD is getting better , currently about 1AUD = 0.87USD and on the way up.
I guess it's all wood and steel and a bit of Sonotube for the secondayr cage and the mirror box.
Would be nice to get the optical set only , and then
- buy a nice Orion UK mirror cell
- buy another nice 2" low profile all aluminium crayford
- buy a nice AstroSystems spider and sec holder
- use carbon fibre composite tubes for the truss poles
- make the secondary cage from carbon fibre composite
- make the mirror box from carbon fibre composite
Would probably get the OTA to a under 20kg that way.
and park the OTA on a good GEM.
Last edited by Ian Robinson; 03-10-2009 at 01:41 PM.
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