Planewave CDKs at significant price cuts.

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Planewave Instruments sells some rather expensive (at least, by most amateur standards) telescopes. Interestingly, they've just cut their prices quite a bit on several of their telescopes. See https://planewave.com/2020/07/13/planew ... -products/ (Scroll down to the list of new prices.)
Their smallest OTA is a 12.5" CDK. They've cut the price nearly 20%, so now it is "only" $8.5K. Might it be fair to compare it to a similarly-sized CDK, the Takahashi Mewlon 300, at $15K? Indeed, a Takahashi Mewlon 250CRS is ~ $8K. Would you rather have that or a Planewave 12.5" CDK?

The planewave website says, concerning the 12.5" CDK, that it "provides excellent imaging with large format CCD cameras while remaining superb for visual use." I wonder if the "superb for visual use" statement may be a bit forward thinking, since I find little evidence that anyone typically uses and/or brags about the performance of these scopes for visual astronomy. But if they do (or if they should), then should I be adding a Planewave 12.5" CDK to my list of to-dream-for folded-optics scopes for visual use, in a home observatory, at: viewtopic.php?f=71&t=9584&hilit=request
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BTW, does anybody on-board here at TSS own (or have significant experience with) a Planewave CDK, and if so, what do you think of it? Finally, do you like it for visual use?
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p.s. Found this: https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/6059 ... ?p=8635707
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Well, sadly, they only cut the one I want by $3K, hardly worth a look.

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sdbodin wrote: Tue Jul 21, 2020 5:20 pm Well, sadly, they only cut the one I want by $3K, hardly worth a look.

Steve
Heh. I think you included the mount. If you just look at the OTA prices, it's a bigger discount. Hmm.. so it seems the prices on at least some of the mounts went up, while the OTA prices went down.
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Yup, drool over that mount.

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Well, the 12.5 CDK is my dream scope and even with the price cuts, it will still take several thousand boxtops to secure its purchase. Oh well.

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