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Thanks guys,
The telescope shop in Perth is the cheapest in Australia for 16 inch Monsters- no postage required. AUD 2999 for the sky watcher. Incidentally, with the AUD so high business at the shop (BTOW) is booming. He's just had 2 x 20ft and 1 x 40ft container of scopes and stuff delivered. Awesome! He also said he is trying to negotiate a deal with Meade at the moment.
Dings in the ota- probably not much of a problem... they'd have to be hellish dings if you couldn't collimate them out!!
Hey Keith, hope we can see you down here sometime, though for seeing the best experience I have had in Australia was at Siding Springs- it's little wonder they put one of our biggest optical observatories there. When I was there you could see faint stars across the entire sky and I spent most of my younger years in the country. I've never seen anything like it. I think we are too close to the coast for that here in Perth- not even 100km inland (our dark sky site) have I seen someting like that.
Last edited by Scopie; 12-02-2012 at 02:38 PM.
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