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  1. Hi

    i understand you may have found a 90 degree tgat works in the skywatcher 50ed finderscope? Using it with a barlow but ideally would like to use direct. Can you help?

    thanks Mark

  2. This reminds me of the pictures we looked at a year or so before NH reached Pluto. We kept seeing a blurred potato with a possible twin potato in pixelated images labelled as "the best pictures we have". Jump from there to the close-up images of Pluto and Charon we have now and just imagine what is to come from the next target ?
  3. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/ultima-in-view-nasa-s-new-horizons-makes-first-detection-of-kuiper-belt-flyby-target Very exciting!
  4. Good to hear, Stu - I thought you were being drawn in by The Dark Side ?
  5. You're not secretly becoming an imager are you, @Stu? '
  6. I suspect that is absolutely true, Jules. My point is that the problem simply shouldn't happen because the cell should be robust enough to survive the journey and the inevitable knocks without losing alignment. A catastrophic blow can happen to any package, but that is what insurance is for. I totally accept that teething troubles happen to all sorts of products of all standards and prices, but the solution is to fix the source of problem. What we are talking about here is delivery by normal means resulting in a fit for purpose product reaching the customer, which is not rocket science, it's just what should happen. Hopefully that is where this story will end, with customers being able to order a 150ED from any retailer with a high degree of confidence that it will be spot on when it comes out the box.
  7. So the price should rise and the scope should be fit for purpose.
  8. I have mixed feelings about this. In the circumstances I think FLO are taking appropriate steps to ensure their customers have a better chance of receiving a fit for purpose scope at the first attempt. I can only assume that the margins on these scopes is tight, thereby resulting in the cost of the additional check having to be passed on to the customer. However, I can't help feeling that a precision instrument that costs £1,569 should be expected to work first time out of the box without the customer having to rely on a retailers taking on additional packaging and QA steps and a customer having to pay an additional £80 to compensate for the manufacturer's shortcomings. Just to be clear, tis is in no way a criticism of FLO. You are doing what you can. But this should be entirely SkyWatcher's issue to resolve.
  9. Thanks for taking the time to post that, John. Pleasing to see there are no negative comments in this part of your review, which backs up the general feeling that this can be a fantastic scope at the price once these initial problems with the lens cell and packaging are resolved ?
  10. Whatever I said that caused offence was not intended, but for the life of me I cannot work out what it was.
  11. Great reports, Chris, and very pleasing to hear what this scope can deliver.
  12. Does it really matter which of those things caused the problem, Jules? Either of those things should have been caught and fixed by the QA process.
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