200 mm Slywatcher triplet

[xelasnave]

Saw it on their weekly web cast.
$10k US.
Just imagine an eight inch triplet.
The link is on my other phone if I can find it ...anyone know more?
Alex

[Hans Tucker (Hans)]

I am a Brand snob .. TEC or nothing even if it is three times the price of a Slywatcher (Skywatcher)

[xelasnave]

Originally Posted by Hans Tucker

I am a Brand snob .. TEC or nothing even if it is three times the price of a Slywatcher (Skywatcher)

You have a TEC???

Alex

[Hans Tucker (Hans)]

Originally Posted by xelasnave

You have a TEC???

Alex

I have a TEC160FL .. but I want a TEC200FL

[xelasnave]

Originally Posted by Hans Tucker

I have a TEC160FL .. but I want a TEC200FL

Well if you are happy with the brand gained from personal experience via ownership and you want it get it if its available ..you seem like a decent sort of a chap so I venture that you deserve it. ...however have you any information on the new Skywatcher 200 mm ...I cant find the link and I realised I don't even know the focal length...I like it so far and I expect it would be an excellent scope and maybe two to make some nice binos...or a few for a dragonfly set up.

Alex

[Hans Tucker (Hans)]

Originally Posted by xelasnave

Well if you are happy with the brand gained from personal experience via ownership and you want it get it if its available ..you seem like a decent sort of a chap so I venture that you deserve it. ...however have you any information on the new Skywatcher 200 mm ...I cant find the link and I realised I don't even know the focal length...I like it so far and I expect it would be an excellent scope and maybe two to make some nice binos...or a few for a dragonfly set up.

Alex

You sparked my interest by starting this thread so I went searching for some information. Couldn't find anything yet but if they model it after their SkyWatcher Esprit 150mm Super Apo then it will be an interesting scope that may break my Brand snobbery.

[xelasnave]

To be fair to your past as well as the future you should get a 200 mm from each brand and enjoy a balanced approach.

I haven't been looking but have been flat out with the angle grinder shortening some tube extenders in my optical path..what could go wrong?...I thought it was a radical approach but everything seems to have worked ...I only hope it is enough to reach focus.
After taking off a couple mm with the grinder I then used a smoothing file and two small grades of sanding type paper...not a plug and play unit is the RASA.

From what I have seen the 200 mm triplet seems the perfect scope...I will ask Bintel how much.
Alex

[MortonH]

So a 200mm Slywatcher is for seeing Sylvester Stallone from really far away?

[xelasnave]

Originally Posted by MortonH

So a 200mm Slywatcher is for seeing Sylvester Stallone from really far away?

I should not comment on his stature but you probably need one when relatively close.

I cant stop thinking about one.

I was listening to something on plate tectonics and the presentor mentioned that glass "flows" such that old church windows one finds the glass thicker at the bottom..so I guess you would have to rotate such a scope to minimise glass flow.
So far that is the only draw back.
Alex

[Peter Ward]

P.T. Barnum is oft' quoted "there's a sucker born every minute"

Skywatcher 200EDT for $10k ?? April 1st is a good hint

[raymo]

I wonder what price an Esprit quality 200 would have to sell for to make it a viable proposition for the manufacturer? Or come to that even something a bit larger than that, say 225 or 250. In this day and age of instant gratification, I imagine the lead time would need to be much shorter than it is currently
[forgetting covid] for premium scopes.
raymo

[xelasnave]

Originally Posted by Peter Ward

P.T. Barnum is oft' quoted "there's a sucker born every minute"

Skywatcher 200EDT for $10k ?? April 1st is a good hint

10 k US...

Mmmm I will check the date of the web cast if I can find it....they showed what was supposed to be the scope .. I will look later as still too busy actually doing stuff...but if so I am not particularly amused given it was a Skywatcher web cast.

April 1st is now a very special day for me.

It was April 1st last year that I had my operation to remove the thiroid cancer and so far it seems a sucess or at least I did not lose the ability to talk and can swallow real food now and the thiroid cancer they found in my lungs seems to be under control but most of all I am not dead...been a tuff year in some respects.


Alex

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Given their ESPRIT 150MM SUPER APO is already $10K, heck, a 200MM would have to be 3X that, at least...? but heck, it'd be cool to have one

I've always thought, if money was not such a significant stumbling block .. man!.. I'd love to have a 12" F11 APO in a 5.5m dome at Eagleview ...the ultimate visual telescope, both to look at and through ...imagine reclining back on a leather observing chair, tube pointing up near the zenith, peering up through the eyepiece, at a razor sharp image of Mars or Saturn, way up on a mountain top, like an old time astronomer...aaah sigh..Nirvana!

Mike

[xelasnave]

Why should it not be possible to produce such a scope for what seems crazy money?
These days you can buy an excellent Chinese guitar for around $300 which really is as good as a $5000 US guitar.
Alex

[xelasnave]

It is 10k US dollars not 10k Australian dollars..

[AdamJL]

got a link so we can read about it, Alex?

[xelasnave]

This is what I saw.
https://youtu.be/MtVWfzqoyVU

[AdamJL]

haha Alex, did you miss this bit a few seconds later?

[raymo]

If you were trying to pull an April fools' day stunt Alex, it failed miserably,
as in the video he tells us its not real.
raymo

[xelasnave]

I was not trying to fool anyone ... I watch stuff whilst doing other stuff and I missed seeing the April fool confession...I decided to watch the web cast hoping to learn something and I suppose disengaged when they started announcing new products as I guess at that point I was disappointed that I had been conned to watch a commercial.
However I reported it here as I took it to be news that members would be interested in...ordinarily I would provide a link ..but I am busy doing stuff and I thought that others would know more... and I am sorry that others also have had their time wasted as well as myself.
I feel annoyed that they wasted my time...I watched their web cast to be informed not have my time wasted...and certainly I could have been less gulible but I dont expect such nonsense from what I thought was a serious astronomy web site.
My time is very precious and I really resent it being wasted.
Alex