Making a Telescope: How Stargazing Devices Are Made [video]

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anovikov · 1d ago

For each of those venerable scopes and mounts, hundreds of cheapo Chinese clones are built. In fact, whole world knows these devices but not by the originals but by the Chinese clones (HEQ5 = Vixen GP, EQ6 = Vixen GP-DX etc).

The world does not care about quality. All it wants is more of cheap shit. These Japanese craftsmen are last of the dinosaurs.

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Making a Telescope: How Stargazing Devices Are Made [video]

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