Dear Manoj,

Thank you putting light on the subject that our astronomy and science member
facing. I understand your views and the situation is more or less same since I
was a school student. and if it remains same we feel very sorry for that. some
one has to give some contribution to solve this. may be the manufacturers reduce
the overhead- cost and retailer to cut some profiting margin. and some
contribution by science institutions memberships and our group contribution and
recommendations co-operations. may be the reason that till 2004 VENUS transit -
some were still searching for the right optics and so many could not give any
contribution to the groups at that time and really it was a good efforts from
Delhi planetarium and Delhi JANTAR MANTAR. but was a poor contribution on the
subject - approximately negligible from our members. I wish look forward that
the condition do improve and we get good response for next mercury transit
contribution in next year.

Dr Bhudia

--- In astronomyclubindia@yahoogroups.com, Manoj Pai <manojpai@y...> wrote:
> You are right Dr, Bhudia. But the catch is, SCTs and
> Maks are difficult to make one our own. Devdas
> Telescopes were the only ones who used to manufacture
> earlier. Prof. Dedvas has stopped due to age, the rest
> are not interested due to low returns.
>
> However, one might like to check the February 2005
> issue of Sky & Telescope. It contanins a fine article
> on making a folded Maksutov-Herschelian. What say
> folks?
>
> Manoj
> --- HPatel63 <hpatel63@h...> wrote:
>
> > Dear friends of Astronomy and Science,
> >
> > Sorry to say this but is it necessary to import all
> > this still now a days just to add the duties. can't
> > manufacturers do @ home? so where are we? read this
> > to compare which I wrote and send on message board
> > years ago during mercury transit time!
>
>
>


[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]