New Meade Ritchey-Chrétien

[kingkong]

a new dream scope for astrophotographer?

http://www.meade.com/rcx400/

i actually submitted to the opt "guess & win" that it'll be a Ritchey-Chrétien! heh... heh...

[VinSnr]

a new dream scope for astrophotographer?

http://www.meade.com/rcx400/

i actually submitted to the opt "guess & win" that it'll be a Ritchey-Chrétien! heh... heh...

Look at the price!! It better be good....

[kochu]

Hi KingKong,

A Good guess. I saw one posting of a guy in another forum (DSI or LX) who also has guessed correctly. Probably you will have to win the draw before you get the LPI.

Kochu/4-1-05

[kingkong]

the cheapest RC scope used to be > usd10,000
about the same $$$$ per inch apo with performance to match apo in a much more compact package.
now you can get a 10" with all the bells & whistles for only usd4k!

let wait for the first light reviews on the optic.

[VinSnr]

the cheapest RC scope used to be > usd10,000
about the same $$$$ per inch apo with performance to match apo in a much more compact package.
now you can get a 10" with all the bells & whistles for only usd4k!

let wait for the first light reviews on the optic.

I have no doubt that the optics will be good...but with so much more electronics now, the chances of glitches and failures will be even higher....

[kingkong]

A Good guess. I saw one posting of a guy in another forum (DSI or LX) who also has guessed correctly. Probably you will have to win the draw before you get the LPI.

i went to cloudynights and see quite a few people made the same guess, won't be surprise opt received thousands of emails saying the same. not really looking forward to winning the autosuite + lpi, i already have one. just wanted to test my intuition.

[ariefm71]

the cheapest RC scope used to be > usd10,000

that's OTA only right?

about the same $$$$ per inch apo with performance to match apo in a much more compact package.
now you can get a 10" with all the bells & whistles for only usd4k

u forgot the usd999! :-)

[kingkong]

u forgot the usd999! :-)

oops!

have to add usd1000 for shipping and handling to the jungle too...

now... which car should i sell....

[kochu]

Hi all ,

Before the news of Meade RC has reaaly spread One Mr. Chris Erickson
has already started a GROUP.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade-RCX400/

Kochu/4-1-05
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[MCYM]

Hi Arief, I think prices include fork mount as a system, as the same goes with their LX200.

What i dont understand is why they change the the typical RC spider vane to glass corrector. I doubt it is could be superior then no glass at all, unless they are still using sperical mirror somewhere.

Matthew