Meade to make big product announcement on 3rd of January.

Looks like meade is phasing out the 16" LX200,
check out these prices ( www.optcorp.com/ ), there about $5000 less then last week..

1650-50-25
16" LX200GPS-SMT Schmidt-Cassegrain AZ Tripod, Standard
Coatings $9,999.00

1650-50-26
16" LX200GPS-SMT Schmidt-Cassegrain AZ Tripod,
UHTC $10,494.00

1650-50-35
16" LX200GPS-SMT Schmidt-Cassegrain AZ Pier, Standard Coatings
$10,144.00

1650-50-36
16" LX200GPS-SMT Schmidt-Cassegrain AZ Pier,
UHTC $10,639.00

1650-50-45
16" LX200GPS-SMT Schmidt-Cassegrain EQ Pier, Standard
Coatings $10,399.00

1650-50-46
16" LX200GPS-SMT Schmidt-Cassegrain EQ Pier,
UHTC $10,894.00

1650-50-05
16" LX200GPS-SMT Schmidt-Cassegrain w/o Tripod or Pier Standard
Coatings $9149.00

1650-50-06
16" LX200GPS-SMT Schmidt-Cassegrain w/o Tripod or Pier
UHTC $9644.00

1610-00-21
16" OTA UHTC

$5999.00