[SJAAboard] Solar scope & Coronado/Meade

[Gary Mitchell]

Rich N wrote:

> After the AANC board meeting, one of the board members and I were
> talking about solar scopes.  He runs the Foothill College Obervatory's 
> solar scope program.  I said we were having  a problem with our DayStar 
> T Scanner and that we have been thinking about a Coronado PST.
> He suggested we contact Meade/Coronado about getting a discount
> on a Coronado Ha filter/scope for club use.   He also said that as a part
> of getting the discount Meade would want a link on our club website.
> 
> We have a number of links to astronomy related companies already
> on our website.  See the Getting Started section.   I don't know if Meade 
> would be ok with just being part of that list of companies with links on our site.
> 
> BTW, that page with the company links really needs updating.  Some
> of those companies are no longer in business.
> 
> Rich

Oh, by the way...  Daystar gave us a pretty big discount on the
Tscanner (once they learned it was for a club loaner program) and
they never asked for anything.

Gary