anyone have a lead on a hard carrying case for my Meade 6" Ed/APO. I've found one for $500, but thats sounds awfully high to me. Or, do you have one for sale!!...
... Steve, if you read and believe Meade's marketing materials, there is a 20% increase in light transferrability. thing that bothers me is that, for years,...
will do and yes the advertising verbiage worries me too. I started out with a Meade DS-114 so I am familiar with their workmanship, which overall isnt too...
Have a chance to buy a Celestron CR150 Refractor for about $475 used. The spec are about the same as the LXD55 6 inch scope. Also the Meade comes with a goto...
... For a relatively unbiased (i.e. he didn't believe it either...) test report (done the right ways... photometers -and- sky tests) visit Clay Sherrod's...
Tom, I've owned the Celestron 6" and looked through the Meade 5" LXD55. Both of these had quite a bit of color, although it can change dramatically from scope...
I have the same scope as yours for a year. I have no trouble splitting the same double double at all. I can get both in field and see both at the same time...
Ed, Happy 4th of July to you, And - Welcome to the Group and Astronomy, If you have any questions, feel free to e-mail them. Clear, Dark and Steady Skies, ...
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Thanks, another one came threw about 15 minutes before your last message. Saves me the trouble of announcing it again. Dan Thurs www.thurs.net/dan Dans...
I'm looking real hard at a circa '82-'83 Meade 12.5" f/6 Newtonian on a "Research Series" mount. Is that moniker strictly referring to the DS-16 mount, are the...
Sounds very intriguing. I have never seen one in the flesh, so I can't offer much useful advice. I believe these scopes had 1.5" shafts in their mounts, which...
I recently heard something to the effect that Meade took the term "Research Grade" seriously back then (have no idea what's gone wrong since ;> but at least...
Hi there, Could anyone tell me if the Meade MA9mm eyepieces would worki equally with a Tal 120 as someone has used mine on there Tal and can't get it into...
I have one and it needs more back focus distance than any of my other eyepieces. This is usually not a problem for SCT's and Maks, but can be in reflectors and...
great little scope indeed I finally got the 8800 all put together and straightened out and man does it even work! In this day of goto's and big cats this old...
Has anybody yet got to use the 6 inch refractor from Meade? Just read one not so good comment. I am considering buying a 6 inch refractor to compliment a l2...
... A number of folks at the LXD55 group have.. both the AR5 and AR6. (acromatic refractors) (as they're known, the Schmidt-Newts are the SN6, SN8 and SN10) ...
I have an extremely good price on a 10 f/10 LX200 that was new in 1/97. The initial screen reads "ver 3.34L." I have it here a couple of days to evaluate...
You are sure you are in alt/az? If you are in polar mode, were you pointing near Polaris? Or does the scope think it is? Meaning is the ra/dec values near...
