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I did an Astromart search and found 6 in the US market.
They were lowest $2995 to highest $3600 with the bulk around $3300.
But that's the US and if you bought that you would have add exchange rate (most of these were when the AUD was .75 to .93 or so), shipping and insurance (US$450), GST $600 so that makes it around AUD$5450 in the past.
Current market is different though as other models become a competitor
at a certain price point. Certainly at the low $3000's it would seem desirable to many.
It would particularly suit a visual user as it is light, fast cooldown and of course its FLUORITE (the real stuff not the pretend marketing hype fluorite which is really FPL53 or less).
In case someone has never used a real fluorite scope there are noticeable differences. Mainly in light scatter. Fluorite has near zero light scatter - point a green laser at the lens and it disappears where it goes through the fluorite lens, not so other like FPL53. Fluorite has the lowest refractive index meaning its far easier for the optical designer to get the colours to focus at the same point if they never split apart much in the first place. Fluorite also enables the optical designer to get better colour correction from faster refractor designs more easily than FPL53. But it is subtle. However when you pay so much to capture that last little bit for visual it is significant.
The best views I have had were from my FS152 scope.
Greg.
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