From: "Rick Unger" <doktermac@hughes.net>

Date: February 3, 2007 1:56:44 PM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: New Scope Company

--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, "Alan Friedman" <alan@...> wrote:

Tim -

I had the same thought - saw the Celestron prototype at NEAF a

couple of years 

ago.

Alan

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------

From: "Tim" <tjp314@...>

Reply-To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Date:  Fri, 02 Feb 2007 23:50:10 -0000

Milton:

I hear tell that the scope is the reincarnation of the Celestron 20"

that was at RTMC a few years ago.

Howdy,

I know the folks at Celestron pretty well, and they told me that two

of their ex-design/engineering guys broke away to form the company

that makes that 20". Maybe they worked on the original project at

Celestron? The prototype that you saw was the brainchild of a

Celestron enginner who passed away before the project could reach

fruition. -Rick Unger, from the dark skied Johnson Valley CA (high desert)