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Originally Posted by Rusty Heap

Evaluation of this deal from you in the know?............seems like over $3K of gear for $1500.

nice 11" Schmidt Cassegrain with lotsa extras. Whats a fair offer?

https://seattle.craigslist.org/sno/pho/d/north-lakewood-celestron-11-inch/7071713284.html

If I was local I would buy it and flip it. That is a high grade scope.

Here's the caveat...here's my guess in the scenario...guy bought $3k in stuff to "get into astrophotography", but since he didn't know exactly what he was doing, he bought a very expansive ALT/AZ scope which is very poor for imaging past a few seconds (especially at 11 inch f/10...). He'll get perfect guiding on a star, and images spun around that perfect point. Tried a few times, got super frustrated, and wants it all GONE. I see it almost every day.

Buy it for $1500, sell the very nice guide scope/camera/rings/dovetail setup for $400 and have a very large, very nice visual use scope for about 1/3 of it's value. Even better, if you don't need the hard case, sell it (it's a very nice JMI case, probably would go for a few hundred itself).