Through a special arrangement with the manufacturer, the $795 Astro-Tech AT6RC 6” f/9 Ritchey-Chrétien has dropped in price to only $299 at Astronomics, hundreds of dollars below its normal dealer price! The AT6RC was conceived, developed, and introduced by Astro-Tech as the first truly affordable R-C astrograph for coma-free imaging using webcams, Deep Sky Imager-type cameras, and DSLRs. You can only buy the AT6RC at this sensational price in the US from Astronomics. Literally hundreds of AT6RC scopes have already been snatched up by eager astrophotographers (and are being put to good use), but more are on the way. If you’ve ever wanted to get into serious astrophotography at an affordable price, here’s your chance.

The ground-breaking AT6RC was joined in Hot Productdom in 2010 by the $1395 Astro-Tech 8" f/8 AT8RC – conceived, developed, and introduced by Astro-Tech as the first affordable 8” R-C with premium features, and the $2695 Astro-Tech 10" f/8 AT10RC – conceived, developed, and introduced by Astro-Tech as the first truly affordable 10” R-C, "costing about one-fourth what similar instruments did just a couple of years ago," according to Sky & Telescope..

And now these Hot Product Astro-Tech R-Cs have been joined by the new 12” Astro-Tech AT12RC, named a Sky & Telescope Hot Product for 2011! At $3995, the AT12RC is priced many thousands of dollars less than a competitive 12.5” R-C and even thousands less than one competitor’s smaller 10” R-C.

As Sky & Telescope put it, “Ritchey-Chrétien reflectors are highly regarded among today's elite astrophotographers, and premium instruments often carry price tags starting at about $1,000 per inch aperture. So it's the best kind of "sticker shock" to see the prices of Astro-Tech's 8- and 10-inch f/8 Ritchey-Chrétiens, which pack features too numerous to list here.”

Others may copy Astro-Tech’s ground-breaking R-Cs, but why settle for a copy when you can have the original? The Astro-Tech 6”, 8”, 10”, and 12” affordable R-Cs. The first – and still the best!