I have a Celestron C11 (Orion branded) (XLT coating) for sale at S$1300. It has always been stored in my dry cabinet between use. The original shipping boxes will be provided.
The OTA comes with:
1. 9x50mm finderscope
2. Visualback
3. Vixen-style mounting plate
4. Bob's knobs for easy collimation
5. Stock focuser
I can also throw in a 1.25" diagonal and some eyepieces that I have extra around.
These sell new for US$1650. On Astromart, these usually sell for about US$1000, which works out to be S$1250. Factor in shipping, they may cost about S$1700 or so. Indeed, I think that is around the selling price here at Singastro.
I am offering mine for just $1300 because:
1. There is a very slight chip on the edge of the primary mirror - I made this when I inserted a mounting screw too deep into the OTA and chipped the mirror when focusing. The dislodged chip has since been removed. This has absolutely no effect on visual or photographic observation. I can send pictures to interested parties.
2. This scope, for some reason, does not hold collimation very well. Maybe my collimation technique is not very good, or maybe it's the way I have stored it, but it just does not hold collimation and requires collimation maybe once every 2-3 sessions. However, when properly collimated, it does produce nice images.
3. The front corrector plate is dusty (can be cleaned off, of course).
I used this mainly for planetary imaging; examples of images produced by this scope:
Please PM me if interested. I can provide pictures. Self-collection to be arranged. Scope will not be available till after mid June.
Thanks for reading!
