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  • Telescopes continue climb in price

    From RichA@21:1/5 to All on Fri May 6 19:42:03 2022
    Scopes are rising about 10% per increase and there has been more than one increase on certain models. For example, the 80mm Explore Scientific f6 refractors have gone up 50 percent in a year and a half, so it long predates the current Bidenflation.
    Part of it might have been caused by shortages too.
    Orion's venerable fpl-53 based 80mm went up $100 then got killed off.
    The delivery time of a "common" Celestron 6 inch SCT is supposedly out to 12 months now. Exporting the entire low to mid-end telescope industry to China probably resulted in lower prices, but also now shortages.

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  • From StarDust@21:1/5 to RichA on Fri May 6 23:32:24 2022
    On Friday, May 6, 2022 at 7:42:05 PM UTC-7, RichA wrote:
    Scopes are rising about 10% per increase and there has been more than one increase on certain models. For example, the 80mm Explore Scientific f6 refractors have gone up 50 percent in a year and a half, so it long predates the current Bidenflation.
    Part of it might have been caused by shortages too.
    Orion's venerable fpl-53 based 80mm went up $100 then got killed off.
    The delivery time of a "common" Celestron 6 inch SCT is supposedly out to 12 months now. Exporting the entire low to mid-end telescope industry to China probably resulted in lower prices, but also now shortages.

    Who cares?
    I haven't bought a telescope at least 10 years!
    🤑🤗

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  • From W@21:1/5 to StarDust on Sun May 8 06:41:25 2022
    On Saturday, May 7, 2022 at 2:32:25 AM UTC-4, StarDust wrote:
    On Friday, May 6, 2022 at 7:42:05 PM UTC-7, RichA wrote:
    Scopes are rising about 10% per increase and there has been more than one increase on certain models. For example, the 80mm Explore Scientific f6 refractors have gone up 50 percent in a year and a half, so it long predates the current Bidenflation.
    Part of it might have been caused by shortages too.
    Orion's venerable fpl-53 based 80mm went up $100 then got killed off.
    The delivery time of a "common" Celestron 6 inch SCT is supposedly out to 12 months now. Exporting the entire low to mid-end telescope industry to China probably resulted in lower prices, but also now shortages.
    Who cares?
    I haven't bought a telescope at least 10 years!
    🤑🤗

    Two different approaches to being an amateur astronomer:

    One that involves buying new equipment very rarely.
    Another that involves buying/selling/trading equipment every minute and a half.

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  • From RichA@21:1/5 to All on Sun May 8 14:40:34 2022
    On Sunday, 8 May 2022 at 09:41:27 UTC-4, W wrote:
    On Saturday, May 7, 2022 at 2:32:25 AM UTC-4, StarDust wrote:
    On Friday, May 6, 2022 at 7:42:05 PM UTC-7, RichA wrote:
    Scopes are rising about 10% per increase and there has been more than one increase on certain models. For example, the 80mm Explore Scientific f6 refractors have gone up 50 percent in a year and a half, so it long predates the current Bidenflation.
    Part of it might have been caused by shortages too.
    Orion's venerable fpl-53 based 80mm went up $100 then got killed off. The delivery time of a "common" Celestron 6 inch SCT is supposedly out to 12 months now. Exporting the entire low to mid-end telescope industry to China probably resulted in lower prices, but also now shortages.
    Who cares?
    I haven't bought a telescope at least 10 years!
    🤑🤗
    Two different approaches to being an amateur astronomer:

    One that involves buying new equipment very rarely.
    Another that involves buying/selling/trading equipment every minute and a half.

    I used a 60mm refractor for 6 years then a C8 for 10 years but bought a lot after that to gain aperture and try new scopes to see differences.

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  • From =?UTF-8?Q?fred__k._engels=C2=AE?=@21:1/5 to All on Mon May 9 07:04:09 2022
    The Chicom massive spy satellites continue to climb in number!!!!!!!!!!!

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