You can't be serious?!!

[emadmoussa]

Very cool photo (not my description, it's Sky-watcher's) showing that Sky-Watcher is a part of the fashion world: Esprit 150 & AZ-E6Q mount on dispay in the Ralph Lauren store in the fashionable Via Montenapoleone in Milan, Italy. The display goes until 2014 February.

[Pig]

I hope there is nobody in them jeans that are hanging up

Nicely equipped room.

[Grant]

I knew the day would come when being into astronomy would make me cool and fashionable!

[emadmoussa]

We all know that when it comes to sense of fashion while freezing outside we are a scruffy bunch :D

[baggywrinkle]

Any chance of getting it at the end of sale show at 50% off.?

[Nakedgun]

Brother, the day astronomy becomes chic it ceases to be a noble pursuit, in my view. 

"I won't belong to any organization that would have me as a member" - Groucho Marx

[Matt Scunthorpe]

I have always told myself im ahead of the fashion

[Brian Nordstrom]

Beautiful looking set up tho , I would like it . 

Yes Baggywrinkle, 50% off , now you are talikng ..

Brian.

[emadmoussa]

What I don't understand about Sky-watcher and other manufacturers such as Celestron (well...they're the same)...they make very expensive telescopes and you pay a lot of money for them, and yet always get rubbish accessories. The eyepiece in the picture is retailed at around £40..you would've though for a 150mm Esprit which costs no less than £4000 you'll get a better eyepiece with it.

[Dude_with_the_tube]

well atliest it is not the box version 10mm or 25mm plossl 

but i have to agree, beautifully looking set up. 

[emadmoussa]

Just don't get it...why a telescope for fashion display?!!! It's like advertising a refrigerator with a good looking girl next to it...makes you wonder if the girl comes with extra shelves.

[Matt Scunthorpe]

Might be some other event around there that we are unaware of.

Matt.

[JamesF]

So Ralph Lauren are tacitly admitting that they no longer lead fashion, but actually follow it?

James

[John]

What I don't understand about Sky-watcher and other manufacturers such as Celestron (well...they're the same)...they make very expensive telescopes and you pay a lot of money for them, and yet always get rubbish accessories. The eyepiece in the picture is retailed at around £40..you would've though for a 150mm Esprit which costs no less than £4000 you'll get a better eyepiece with it.

The top quality manufacturers mostly don't give you any accessories at all with the scopes on the basis that they assume that discerning buyers will either have their own stuff already or will want to choose their own.

If you are in the market for a £4K scope, the fact that one comes with a slightly better eyepiece than the other is the least of your concerns I'd suggest.

[Peter Drew]

The scope is probably the cheapest thing in the shop. 

[emadmoussa]

The scope is probably the cheapest thing in the shop. 

LOL

[Stargazer_00]

What an unbelievable waste of perfectly good optics.  All that time spent going through manufacturing, quality assurance ensuring that the resultant optiucs and scope meet the exceedingly high standards for such a scope only to have it plonked in a 2 bit shop as an ornament.

EDIT: On reflection that has to be a tax scam in operation. Clearly someone involved in the shop or the display wants that setup and got an opportunity to pitch an astro themed winter clothing display.  Once the display is ended the 'props' are probably tax write offs and the person can purchase the scope off of the company at some ridiculously low price.  If that is indeed the case then full Kudos to that individual.

[emadmoussa]

At least we know once telescopes are handled by models they'll either be pink in colour or used like this

[emadmoussa]

[JamesF]

At least we know once telescopes are handled by models they'll either be pink in colour or used like this

I think it's forgiveable for a layperson not to know how a newt is used, and maybe even a Mak or SCT, but I'd really have thought that knowing which end of a standard refractor telescope you put your eye to would be part of our cultural consciousness.  Clearly I am wrong

James

[emadmoussa]

I think it's forgiveable for a layperson not to know how a newt is used, and maybe even a Mak or SCT, but I'd really have thought that knowing which end of a standard refractor telescope you put your eye to would be part of our cultural consciousness.  Clearly I am wrong

James

I thought that was common sense...obviously not

[baggywrinkle]

Cracked it, they bought it for the close up pre-show plucking of eyebrows.....

[Uplooker]

Emad,

LOL, some of those shots where hilarious

Ian

[cotterless45]

Perhaps we should have a scope gaffs section !

Nick.

[Nakedgun]

What I don't understand about Sky-watcher and other manufacturers such as Celestron (well...they're the same)...they make very expensive telescopes and you pay a lot of money for them, and yet always get rubbish accessories. The eyepiece in the picture is retailed at around £40..you would've though for a 150mm Esprit which costs no less than £4000 you'll get a better eyepiece with it.

If I'm not mistaken, that eyepiece is a Pentax XL, do they sell that cheaply in the UK?