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[Left Coast Geek]

Caveat Emptor.
https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/meade-and-orion-cease-operations-maybe/

 

[Classical Motion]

Wow, that's a shame to hear.

I seriously doubt we'll ever see low cost high quality products manufacturing here in the US again. I don't believe it can be brought back. They charge a house price for a carriage. Sorry I don't call that manufacturing.

If I were going to manufacture a gadget I wouldn't attempt it here. The societal tyranny is just as bad as the bureaucratic tyranny. Tyranny is always expensive.

How is society going to react to it's own tyranny? Has this happened before? It's seems so foreign to me.

A stranger in my own land. And I'm the stranger.

 

[Left Coast Geek]

Orion hasn't made anything significant in the USA since forever. Even in the 80s, their house branded telescopes were made by the likes of Vixen in Japan, and later various Taiwanese/Chinese firms like Synta, GSO.

 

[Lion's Den]

I got a made-in-Japan Orion variable-polariser, way back when. I finally saw the festoons and whorls within Jupiter's equatorial bands with the polariser, through my Orion "StarBlast 6" OTA from 2012, nigh tack-sharp, perhaps too sharply, if such were possible. The event occurred round 2015, and during a few moments of excellent seeing.

Even at round 180x, the Newtonian was collecting too much light, with Jupiter still washed-out, a greyish-white orb, no detail whatsoever; still with the four flares caused by the spider-vanes, jutting out from the planet, but somewhat shorter at that higher power. It was at that point when I integrated the polariser. The view appeared as a NASA television broadcast, that is, on a 1960s CRT colour-console.

Yesterday, I opened a case with PayPal to get a refund on a backordered ST80 OTA. I've got until the 10th to change my mind. If not, I'll get an Omegon.