Full Resolution On the left is Rick Hessman at the 1.2m MONET telescope. Check out that indestructible German engineering! I understand it was built by a German company that mostly builds industrial printing presses -- heavier is better! -- and they've adopted this same philosophy in their telescopes.
On the right is the similarly sized Las Cumbres telescope. It is lithe in comparison -- check out those narrow struts! And the amazing baffling between the secondary and primary. I don't know quite how or why they work, but I suspect their engineers have very carefully optimized weight vs. stray light vs. airflow and come up with this crazy design.
That's a $9,000 Nikon 400mm f/2.8 they're using as a viewfinder. But hey, it's a million-dollar telescope.
