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Just saw this video today, an astronomer's worst nightmare: a MASSIVE 14" cassegrain telescope tumbles right off the mount and SMASHES to smithereens!
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Ouch, betting that wasn't a cheap oopsie.
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Looking at Celestron's site and their resellers, that was a $6500 telescope that fell and smashed!
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Huh, not that that's cheap by any means, for me anyway, not that bad. I was thinking like $10k plus