The Beast lives! 😱😳🤯😎

[Highburymark]

On 18/01/2024 at 22:18, Sunshine said:

Oh my gosh, i was curious and looked on FLO’s website, the Lunt 60 configuration I purchased here in Canada is nearly double the price in UK when considering the exchange back to Canadian dollars, outrageous!

£4,000 for a single stack 60 with a B1200 blocker, which you really need for binoviewing. Goodness knows what the Feathertouch version costs now. What puzzles me is these dedicated Lunt scopes use smaller internal etalons, which is where all the cost is located. Yet the double stack 60mm etalon - a full 60mm aperture - is £1200 cheaper. Doesn’t make sense. It’s a real shame because they are lovely scopes, priced sensibly in some markets, but not in the UK.

[JOC]

I once lugged my 8"dob, it''s heavy powered miunt, EP's and my home-made perfectly serviceable solar filter and shadow finder all the way to a street science fair to do outreach and let people experience seeing the sun.  We spent the entire day dawn to dusk under 100% clouds and the most exciting thing the kids viewed through the scope was a TV aerial!!!