Hi Jerry, Thanks for your reply. Yes you are right, I'm gonna follow your suggestion and quit the Meade program. By the way, I am totally frustrated with...
Hi Jerry, I tried registered on E-bay. When I signed in to purchase the scope, they kept on rejecting me. They asked for my ID and password and kept on...
Hi Robert, Thanks sooo much for that information, i will look into the Televues asap and see if i have to take out a personal loan to cover my new hobby. ...
I've being trying to align my 80-XTE by pointing true north with a 0 degrees horizontal plane. My 484 controller said to go counterclockwide until it stops, I...
I made a mistake the other day and upladed new information to my 494 without saving the origional information. Does anyone have the origional .aud file for...
My one arm Meade DS mount works fine with one exception - it has almost no "grip" in the base drive section. If you bump it, it moves, if a cable snags on the...
I just received the DS90 yesterday from the Mead factory outlet and my first impression is that it is way bigger than I had thought it would be. I picked this...
Thanks for all the replies, this is a great forum. I have another question: let's say I have the DS 90 or DS2090, and later I want to use the mount for a...
What do I need to connect my laptop to my 497 controller? I have HNSKY and Cartes du Ciel software that I think is needed to interface with the controller. I'm...
Hi friends, I am getting so bad images out of my DS2114ATS-TC, that I wonder either if this is normal or if I have something wrong in my scope. I am not able...
Hi Robert, Thank you for your advice. Because money is very limited for me right now, I will have to forego the dob this year. I decided to get a better view...
hi, i'm new to astronomy and i am thinking of buying an etx70. would that be a good starter scope. will i really be able to see much with it or should i buy a...
HI everyone, I'm new here and have a question about the telescope I purchased from the Meade factory outlet on e-bay. Its a telestar DS 2114ATSA. Focal length...
Once the bolt Is out from the middle of the base, the arm should lift right off the Bottom. However, putting this all back together is "difficult". There's a ...
Robert, Both are good scopes. When comparing scopes of the same type Aperture always wins. Get the DS90 not the DS2090. There is a focal length difference but...
Send it back and get the long tube version. The short tube 114 has a corrector/barlow in the focuser that ruins the view and makes it near impossible to get it...
Sounds like the corrector/barlow is either out of square or maybe even missing. If you can send it back do so and get the long tube version instead. It doesn't...
If you mean the bolt under the battery pack that is all you need to take out. I use two screwdrivers one on each side to get the case apart but be careful not ...
Although there may be a member that knows the ETX scope alignment procedure it is not necessary on the DS series scopes. There fore I have never had to do it ...
The Barlow is on place, it might be out of square. Is there anything that I might try to solve the problem? To send the scope back to the factory is out of...
What cable do I use to connect my ds 90 to my laptop? I have an older mocel compac with windows on it my scope has the aux that looks like a phone plug...
Dear Fernando, if you have a good planet contour then I think that is all that you can get. Before the Meade DS I had a 114mm newtonian with excellent optics...
Dear Andras, Thanks so much for your reply. I think you are right, there is nothing to try with this scope. I was thinking to buy a new mirror and better...
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Fernando, The spherical primary mirror and the built-in barlow are really the culprits. I've done some modifications on a DS2114-ATS I bought a year and a...
I just found a good short-tube so now I am about to buy a Skywatcher 114/500 tube for the Meade DS mount. Similar tube size, parabolic mirror and excellent...
Here is the low down on the cables: There are 2 Meade cables: - #505 (you can make yourself) - #506 (you have to buy) There are 3 AutoStar models: - #494 (use...
Carlos, Thank you so much for your reply! I downloaded the pdf you mentioned in your e-mail and I am just going through it. This is the info that I was looking...
