Hi all! I have a Meade 2045 and I'm thinking about upgrading it to something a little bigger. I don't know whether it is worth my while selling it or if I...
Hi: You might get that much, but...if it's a decent performer, as some of them are, you might find that holding onto it for use when you don't feel like ...
...at Chaos Manor South after spending the weekend in Anacortes, Washington for their annual Optics and imaging Expo. Great time was had by all, with, in...
Yep. Blog's done been updated, y'all. ;-) http://uncle-rods.blogspot.com/ Peace, Rod Mollise Author of: Choosing and Using a Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope and ...
I purchased this scope DS2114ATSA with the 494 hand controller in the middle of August. After going through 4 (8) Sets of AA batteries I decided to invest in...
... Just click the "Join this group" icon near upper right, as with any other yahoogroup. ... No, the 2045 is a 4" SCT Meade made many years ago. Very...
Hi Moon, Most likely you will end up keeping it. Look at Meades Outlet Store on Ebay USA. They have those and similar ones all the time. That will pretty much...
... The 2045 is a 4" SCT, discontinued about a decade ago, so you won't find any on the Meade outlet. The closest modern scope might possibly be the etx 90 or...
I would think that the DSX 90 would be pretty close, but is a 494 mak as you say, but they do come up pretty often at the outlet. I still think keeping it may...
Thanks for all the answers guys, I'll think I'll end up keeping this one as a spare after all then! All the best, moon -- In Meade-Uncensored@yahoogroups.com,...
John: Thank for the feedback. I realized my error and deleted the message as soon as I saw that it had been posted. Evendentially I did not do this soon...
Just for fun, there's a writeup on Cloudy Nights by a guy who did a C- scan on a 2045. It's at: http://www.cloudynights.com/documents/ctscan.pdf ... message ...
Hi all, I've been lurking here for a while, enjoying the useful information being written here. Anyway, I've now got a question for you guys - does anyone have...
Hi All, here my latest attempt of the Bubble Nebula: http://www.dsi-astronomie.de/NGC7635.htm LX200GPS 10'' DSI-II Pro 50 images a 30 sec Alt Az unguided ...
Travis; This is great. It should be referenced when ever a new question about how the Meade telescopes work. All the SC scope users can benifit from looking at...
This is undoubtedly intentional spam based on the return ISP address for this individual. What a waste. Dr. Clay ... Arkansas Sky Observatories Harvard MPC/...
No intending to spam anyone - just trying to pass along a deal to fellow astro buffs. Most of the time you can't get Meade products for anything less than the...
... Yep; that's called "price fixing" and restraint of trade and was supposed to be outlawed circa 1970 re: the "STP Motor Treatment" decision. 'Sfunny how the...
Not really true--in the 1960s the gov't went after my father's employer when the 43rd largest oil company (Pennzoil) tried to buy the 54th largest (Kendall)....
Hi All. I have an 8" LX90-LNT, about a year old. Unmodified, apart from Bob's Knobs. The optics seem ok and the collimation is good. I recently bought a...
Stephen, The dark in the center is the shadow of the secondary mirror. The darkening around the edge is vignetting. Focal reducers are not able to actually...
Hello Stephen You don't specify how your optical train is set up. You mention a diagonal and then say you viewed without. Though your FR is rated .63, the...
That looks like the "shadow of the secondary" effect. This happens when the exit pupil is too large for you eye. It can happen at low power, but for a given...
... No, the focal length of the reducer lens is something like 270mm, but the proper distance between reducer and EP (or chip) should be around 100mm, which is...
