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Excellent service from Steve B at FLO. I sent in a question Monday last week regarding the Celestron AVX mount, solar filters, and coma correctors. Steve replied to my question within a couple of hours, providing me with a detailed account of his experience with the mount, and a balanced review of the differences between the Skywatcher and Baader coma correctors. I ordered the mount, coma corrector and solar filter on the Wednesday and promptly received confirmation by email. Looking at the order status on the website, it was updated to show that they were expecting a delivery of the mount on Friday from their supplier. When I ordered, with a delivery date of 3 to 5 days, being the optimist, estimated I would receive all items on Monday or Tuesday and ensured someone would be around to accept the delivery on those days. By Monday lunchtime, there was no update on the status of the order, and I decided to contact Steve again to ask for an update on the estimated delivery day so I could make arrangements to accept delivery, fully expecting him to say Wednesday or Thursday. Steve replied to me again very quickly, explained that the mount had been only been delivered to them that day, and asked if I would like it to be delivered tomorrow - quick confirmation back and forth, and around 11am Tuesday morning FedEx arrived with all my items neatly packed into one box. Not sure if I can really credit FLO with this, but I think they forgot to pack the clouds too, as I even got to use it in anger that night with the clouds clearing away about 10pm!

It's only Astro if it arrives packed with clouds. As such the new Skywatcher 200p i'm expecting to arrive tomorrow is most definitely not astro equipment.