I believe the question of which scope to purchase depends on your budget and what you will do with the scope. The LX90 is an excellent scope if you primarily...
Thank you all for clearing my doubt. I now understand it. -- -Robin Lee My Astronomy Blog- www.AstronomyNotes.net [Non-text portions of this message have been...
Just heared from Meade that they are sending me a replacement fan. Thats great customer service in my book! Gotta say, they have always been very receptive and...
Might be of interest to note that some of the Sunon Range are not ball bearing but are maglev - magnetic levitation -, so no bearings as such at all. They...
Interesting. In my experience Sunon has usually been the worst quality fans I have dealt with in telecommunications. "My advice is free and worth every penny!"...
Sunon just happened to be the first fans I came across in a suppilers catalog - no endorsements intended :-) To be honest fans are so cheap and in scopes are...
Hi all I was hoping that someone could give me advice on the correct way of using a guide scope with an LX200R. I currently have a small Revelation 80mm apo...
What size scope is your LX200R? The 8"-14" use essentially the same mount, so the weight margin for "extra payload" actually goes down as the scope size ...
John - thanks for your reply. The scope is a 10". When you say counterbalanced, what needs to be done here? Tim John Mahony <jmmahony@...> wrote: What...
... You need a counterweight somewhere along the bottom of the tube to balance the guidescope. There are simple "1D" systems for this where you move a weight ...
Fantastic - Thanks John Tim ... You need a counterweight somewhere along the bottom of the tube to balance the guidescope. There are simple "1D" systems for...
...you all. http://uncle-rods.blogspot.com/ Peace, Rod Mollise Author of: Choosing and Using a Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope and The Urban Astronomer's Guide ...
HI guys, I have an LXD75 SN8 with an astro tech AT66 piggybacked. I had the at66 on the mount with 1 counterweight and it worked perfect! SN8 alone--worked...
In a not surprising merger of technologies, Meade, Nikon and Lens Babies combined their expertise in optics, perspective control, and selective focus,...
This looks cool. At first, I thought this is an ocular with 360 degree FOV... -- -Robin Lee My Astronomy Blog- www.AstronomyNotes.net [Non-text portions of...
When you piggyback the refractor on the SN, it's further from the RA axis than when it's attached directly to the mount, so you'll need to add more weight, or ...
... The "fake" Model 9000 Super360 lens was just something I cobbled-up in a few idle minutes -- nighttime fog here for the next several days -- in response to...
... Yes! A very definite similarity. Having long experience of being on the endoscopic receiving end, I've been glad that I've had to "assume the position"...
Hi Gang: A lightning strike at Chaos Manor South this past weekend took out a PC and, more importantly, the ol' Manse's router. If you don't get a reply from...
Hi Guys: Well, I'm pronouncing our computer problems cured. And.the router is now on a ups Peace, Rod Mollise Author of Choosing and Using a Schmidt Cassegrain...
... Oh, the ghost of Edsel Murphy is -really- gonna getcha for that... ... (where's that link to the photo of the exploded UPS battery when i need it?) good...
Yeah, believe me, Dick...I'm just whitlin' in the dark. And everybody here--yes--says I should be subjected to the tender mercies of the Wouff-Hong for saying...
Hi Guys! I have a new to me Meade Polaris scope. I have no instruction manual and have never really used a telescope before. Are any of you kind and wise...
http://www.meade.com/manuals/TelescopeManuals/Polaris/Polaris60AZ-D11- 08.pdf I hope this is the scope you have--if not, message back to us. There are about a...
There is very little that I can add to Greg's response, the primary challenge in taking photographs with the Polaris or similar Meade scopes is keeping the...
