Re: 1/6 or 1/8 wave

On Feb 2, 3:29 pm, "Roger Hamlett"
<rogerspamigno...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


There is a new telescope on the market for RCOS to sue. They have the
audacity to claim their design is superior to the "classical RC"!

http://www.planewaveinstruments.com/index.php?option=com_content&task...

Nothing to 'sue' here. Meade would have been perfectly OK, in any-bodies
book, calling their design a 'coma free improved SCT'. The problem is in
marketting it _as_ an improved Ritchie Chretien, which in some of their
adverts they do.
The 'new scope' here, looks to be a Dall-Kirkham, with a field flattener.
Probably where the 'DK' comes in the name.
Seems a bit 'odd' to compare it with an RC, without a field flattener
fitted though...

Best Wishes

Good for you! You caught my sarcasm. The comparison is indeed a "bit
odd". Downright misleading, I would say, wouldn't you?

And these guys were Celestron's top two optical designers no less.

But then, of course, anyone with any optical knowledge at all would
catch this just like they would know Meade is not selling "Hubbles for
the consumer backyard" or "pure RC's". Sky & Tel was able to figure it
out in their glowing review of the Meade RCX--I assume you did too
unlike long time RCOS engineer, Dan Azari who claimed under oath in
the Meade lawsuit that he "was duped by Meade".

I have almost doubled my investment in Meade stock since the initial
lawsuit craziness last fall. The stock will double again when this and
the stock option craziness are favorably resolved, which they both
will be in due course. Stay tuned--you read it here first.

You read it here first ;-)

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