Re: [APML] 12" & 14" LX200

["Jim Ives" <flyboy9990@earthlink.net>]

Alan I question the authenticity of the UHTC on the new Meade scopes. Only
for the fact that they show the "standard coatings" as having a transmission
of 80%. I don't remember off hand the days before the UHTC came out, but I
doubt if before those days they would have advertised their transmission
percentages as only 80%. Everyone would have went with the Celestron right
off.
    In other words how can there (looking at graph in current Meade ad)
standard coatings suddenly be only 80% transmission when before I'm sure
they were advertised as being somewhere in the 90% range?  Should dig up an
older S&T and look at their advertisement.
Jim Ives
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Voetsch" <critter12952@yahoo.com>
To: <astro-photo@seds.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 2:46 PM
Subject: Re: [APML] 12" & 14" LX200


> Hi Eddie,
>
> --- Eddie Guscott <eddie.guscott@blueyonder.co.uk>
> wrote:
> > I understand that the 14" Meade SC is priced to
> > "persuade" people not to buy
> > the Celestron C14.
> > If you look at the pricing structure of the full
> > range of Meades, the 14"
> > would "appear" to have an artificially low/good
> > price.
>
> I don't necessarily think so. They go from (I'm
> rounding) $2000 for the 8", $2500-10", $3000-12",
> $4300 for the 14". That last is a pretty good jump.
> The tripod is the same, the drive gears and the forks
> are supposed (?) to be a little beefier. That makes
> the extra glass pretty pricey.
>
> Having a 12" (that cost me $4000 plus S&H), naturally
> I yearn for the next step up. We all know this as
> "Aperture Fever'. :-)
>
>  What I really want are the GPS goodies (mirror lock
> and the microfocuser). It occurs to me that for a few
> hundred more dollars than I paid for my 12"LX 200, I
> could have the improved 14" GPS, a complete EP set,
> and UHTC, which most likely equals out as 15". I'd go
> for it. A note here; I bought my first LX200 (a 10")
> in 1993 for about $3100 including S&H.
>
> I have to believe that anything that gets some of our
> very expensive equipment priced a little more
> reasonably is a good thing. Competition helps that. If
> Celestron goes out of business, no, that won't help as
> they are Meade's only real competition. Personally, I
> believe there has been price inflation, and price
> fixing, involved here for a long time. With lower
> sales, higher prices will be gotten. With mass sales,
> prices can be brought down. Meade is bringing these
> scopes into everyones price range, I suspect that will
> do more good than harm.
>
> Sorry, I've been rambling.
>
> Alan
>
>
>
>
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