I just moved to St. Louis and the movers broke the tube mount castings on my Meade MT-SN8 Schmidt-Newtonian 8" (the parts that attach the OTA to the fork mount...
1. Anybody have a wedge for the Meade 2045 that they want to sell? 2. If I can't locate a 2045 wedge, anybody have a used wedge that I can adapt to the 2045?...
Hi Doug. I don't want to sound rude, just helpful. A simple tripod and a homemade wedge out of plywood is all you need to mount the 2045 on. It is quite a...
Hi ... if you check out the shoestring astronomy website, they show plans for a really nice aluminum wedge... ...or you can get and early standard Meade wedge...
... Which screws are you loosening for the Schmidt plate? On SCTs, to remove the Schmidt corrector, you remove just the retaining ring in front of it, not the...
Thanks John - I'll check this over the weekend. I have been working on the SN8 down in the dark basement. I'll bring it upstairs so I can see what's going on....
Hello, Ed. I am from Brazil. I´m interested, but I need to know how much it will coasts to send to Brazil. I am in São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo state. ...
... They recently (within the last three weeks) have sent "repaired" LX90's to a few people (i'm aware of three scopes), and those LX90's are carrying v44Ea...
Meade has secured a substantial loan...enough to carry them along for a while. They must start making money, though...and in this economy, I am not sure how...
Meade Europe has also started releasing some of their own Meade-branded products, but locally developed. The first one i'm aware of is a $500 wireless (or...
And he is quite the conversationalist: http://uncle-rods.blogspot.com/ Peace, Rod Mollise Author of Choosing and Using a Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope...and... ...
OT but very important! We have an asteroid that has an earth moid of 0.000 schedule to actually hit the earth's atmosphere TONIGHT at Oct. 7.1 U.T. Asteroid...
On my LX10. Please, how can I tell? I turned the switch on, got a red led light, and left it on overnight. Both axis are locked... The RA and DEC should have...
You are correct: your telescope is not moving; however, never turn on the motors or the telescope and go off and leave it. Electronic drives are notorious...
... It should be, but very slowly. ... The LX10 motor is incapable of "slew" speeds. It's a basic clock drive with guide speed corrections. I suppose it might...
The RA won't move. There's no motor to move it. The RA axis should move, but very slowly...the scope will turn once every 23h 56m 4s. Do you hear the motor...
That should be "DEC WON'T MOVE"...LOL... Are you sure the RA lock is locked? When you gently try to move the scope in RA does it move easily? Peace, Rod...
... He might have the optional dec motor, but it still won't move, since the scope is designed for use on a wedge, so for normal sidereal tracking, only the RA...
Right, whether you are on a wedge or not, the only time the dec motor moves is if you are pushing a button on the HC. Peace, Rod Mollise Author of Choosing and...
Hi everyone, I have the Meade lXD75 SN8. It seems that the screws that hold the primary fell out. 2 of them . 2 are still in. I tried putting in other screws,...
You mean that hold the cell onto the tube, or the mirror in the cell? In either case what you do is get some more screws. Those that hold the mirror cell to...
Thanks for all the responses. I don't hear the RA drive. I did open up the bottom housing since I put in a new battery, and didn't even get the LED light. I...
Not sure if this is applicable to the scope, but my ETX has astronomical targets and terrestrial objects options. No movement of the drives if terrestrial...
This is not a go-to scope. It is a manual fork mount LX10. Peace, Rod Mollise Author of Choosing and Using a Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope...and... The Urban...
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