Yea, one drawback is it may be a while before one comes up. Its a bummer that Orion is forcing you to buy the atlas with the GPS hand controller now. I paid 1100.00 for mine brand new without the gps hand controller, and now you cant get them under 1399.00. The eqmod replaces the hand controller. Anyway, good luck. :) David Chuck Hards wrote:
Oh, man, that's a killer deal, but it means having to keep close tabs on the ads... my Achilles heel is not having enough time to spend on-line.
I need to pay someone to do it for me, lol.
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 12:48 PM, David Rankin <David@rankinstudio.com>wrote:
Chuck,
One more thing. If you get an Atlas, I would not get one new from Orion. I have seen some Killer deals on the cloudy nights classifieds. Ive seen people upgrading and selling fully hypertuned atlas mounts for around $900.00.
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