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Originally Posted by bojan
...It is much too expensive for what it does...
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Originally Posted by bobson
...But be realistic, its way too expensive for what it is...
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To bojan and Bob regarding your comments indicating that the AN is not worth the money/too expensive.
It is clearly obvious that ATM'ers can produce similar results from other parts and accessories and produce equal results. And more power to you if you can acheive this. But I believe
your comments are relative to
your situation only, not mine or anyone elses.
I used to be the same, and would spend many hours tinking in my workshop creating devices for all manner of hobbies which could be commercially available. Bu t these days I am more than happy to purchase a product (like AN) where someone has done all the tinkering for me.
Perhaps your comments should read something like:
"It is more economical for me produce my own device than to buy an AN". If you think you can cobble a system together and get it to work, well done! But many amateurs are more than happy to pay for the privelige of a new, tried and tested, out-of-the-box system which has local support if required.
You comments "my belief that it is not quite appropriate to make money on amateurs who can not do things themselves" is kind of strange, given that we all buy commercially produced items at some point in our hobby, whether that be telescopes, mounts, eyepieces etc.
Finally, given those great pictures from Gary of the manufacturing facility, and the years of R & D (and I assume lots of investment $, $1000 for an AN is not really that much to pay for all that hard work.