What??? You come on here and post (amongst many similar statements in other threads) a blanket rhetorical "question" that essentially states
"Celestron are better than Meade, now why?". I sense troll here, and I'm sorry if I'm wrong, but your language doesn't suggest to me a modern 15-year old's writing style. Were you expecting or hoping that everyone was going to agree?
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Thanks so much for being so supportive and so very helpful. It's great to see that at least one person can give me useful and good tips out here in comparison to others who are just, how should I put it,...envious.
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How do you think that owners of large Meade SCT's, and there are many of them here who are incredibly happy to have one, feel about that being said? Your statement flies directly in their faces and you'd be right in feeling a little of their heat. Your "research" has uncovered a couple of Meade-o-philes and you're happy as Larry to believe it all and post in agreeance. I'd like to know why you posted this question in the first place. If it wasn't to provoke reaction, you're having yourself on.
Jealous? You've been given advice by people who have all been posting on here for years. I've not seen anything to suggest that anyone is "envious" of you and trying to tear you down. Everyone has given you their reason for their advice and you're not happy to take it at face value and label it "jealousy". Golly, most of us have been there done that with large SCT's and for our own various reasons decided that it was a wrong move. That's pretty presumptuous don't you think? Paul and others have these scopes and we're all proud of what they accomplish with them. This doesn't for a second mean that the rest of us want to go down the same road as they. Plenty are taking other, equally expensive routes with high-end refractors for the reasons they've given. You're in the USA, so the 14" EdgeHD and mount package retails for around $10k. That isn't exactly an expensive scope. On top of that, at least you don't have to pay for international freight like we Australians do.
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I wish others could be just as encouraging as you've turned out to be!
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No-one here wants anything more than for you to be happy with your new aquisition - but please don't go telling others, by inference or otherwise, that their choice of scope is inferior because you choose to say so. If you truly are 15, you really can't have the experience to say that. If you want encouragement, then maybe try not offending those you ask a question of. By inferring that some of us are "jealous" of you, I suspect that you'll be taken less seriously that you'd otherwise hoped.