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"Product Review" - Richmond Windsor., HAA

The Trashmeadtron 115mm f/10 Deep Sky computer controlled telescope, available at all the better stalls of Parklea Markets, has become a minor sensation overnight. Handcrafted in Botswana by Southern Africa’s most distinguished optical house.

Containing flawless soda ash glass, seasoned cellulose fibre tubing and recycled AK47 cartridge cases, this telescope has entered the computer age.

The four-element, semi-fraunhofer / apochromat mates flawlessly with the full range of ten simplified Huygens eyepieces, the 2mm version giving a dramatic 2,300 times magnification, with a field wide enough to show the whole of Callisto, while the mega wide-field 40mm at 28 times magnification, fully displays half of Mare Crisium.

The specifications of the Computer drive are still a trade secret, assisted by the fact that the operating manual is written in medieval Swahili, but pointing the Trashmeadtron in the general direction of any star using the 5 x 5 finder, will result in a star (though usually not the one in the finder) making its way into the field of view of the eyepiece, providing of course that the eyepiece doesn’t fall out of the focuser during this process.

Want to see colour in the Orion Nebula, 47 Tucanae, Sirius, The Moon? The Trashmeadtron will astound you with its wide range of colours, which no other telescope comes close to displaying, especially with the shorter focal length eyepieces.

With a RRP of only $995.99, (street price of $10), these scopes are selling fast. Unconditionally guaranteed for the life of any good alkaline battery, get yours today!