I learn this news with heartfelt regret. Meade has allowed me to do many things at reasonable prices.
The market for amateur telescopes and their accessories appears to be out of date. Telescope companies are suffocating themselves, especially as the stars have disappeared from the sky. The various online marketplaces as they are filled with gear (everything has become ballast) of all kinds still new put up for sale because they are superfluous. A few days ago, I took a Celestron D90mm refractor to one of the flea markets in my town. The manager didn’t want it, he said it wasn’t for sale. He only agreed to try because we have known each other for years.
In my country they say: only after you have bought it do you realise that you don’t need it.
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