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Old 08-03-2006, 05:23 PM
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aiming for 2nd Halley's

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Originally Posted by g__day
Lee from Andrews Communications just came back with a very nice price when I asked for a C11 + CGE and tripod, I'm just qualifying the price does include the scope.

Amazingly the USD price for these complete configurations with the premium lens coatings is around $4,200 - $4,400 which is a bit under $6K Aussie - which Lee can do (if I read his e-mail correctly), whereas astronomy-online in brookvale have the same model for $9,535 - over a $3,000 mark-up unless there website is way outta date. I've asked Mark there to check prices and confirm to me.
Keep us posted - if Lee can really do the CGE for that price it would be great. Wonder how much he could do just the CGE mount for?

cheers,
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