LOL, I live in a rural area of upstate NY. A lot of the farmland is being purchased by the Amish fleeing the growth of Wash, DC. Their kerosene lamps aren't...
Most of the plastic on Meade stuff is ABS. I use universal plastic pipe cement on it. Good for ABS, PVC and CPVC. HTH, Geo. ... with super glue and more...
Hello Everyone, Just thought I would say hello; I just found the group! I live the Raleigh/Durham area of North Carolina. I'm fairly new to Astronomy (since...
Mike, Welcome. This group has been fairly quiet recently. I had bought from the Meade Factory Outlet one of those scopes. I have a Celestron C5 snd some decent...
Ben, I'll have to check my settings as I did not get this message sent to my email but rather saw it when I logged on to the yahoo user group. As for the...
Mike, I wondered about the small motor on my old Polaris mount. The old grease is real stiff, but the small RA motor is geared down and has no trouble driving...
What I found on the LXD500 was that it was between the Celestron CG4 and CG5. I found a source for the 2 axis drive for the LXD500 it was about $190. When I...
The LXD500 has some collector interest and it's a decent mount. The drives are a problem as they are pretty unique. They are similar to the 4505 DH drives,...
is missing from my M4501 I just bought. I found it at the local Goodwill Store. $20.00 I called Meade and they have nothing. So if any of you have one or know...
Hello everyone, I just wanted to post a note informing ya'll that I am going to be moving tomorrow. While it will be nice to be back out in the country again...
im having problems finding the north star. i know to follow the 2 stars on the big dipper to the north star and the tail end of the small dipper but i just...
Frank, I'm not sure where in California you live, however even in San Diego, Polaris is 32 degrees above the horizon. At the Northern border or California...
Yeah keep looking I live down in the deep valley of Happy Camp and I can always see it after I step around a certain cedar tree. Try a crappy night, it's...
In the ranking of northern hemisphere stars from brightest to fainter, Polaris is about 50th place. It is within 1 degree of true Celestial North and will be...
It is not clear what is missing or what you bought at Goodwill. My best guess - On eBay, dealer Telescope Warehouse has the hub for some of the Meade ...
Posted today on Mike Weasner's site was this note: http://www.weasner.com/etx/techtips/2008/gears.html about someone's successful search for an alternate...
... just out of the blue my goto controler is stating. a falt with the motors. there seems to be nothing rounge with the motors is there some way other then...
well i thought this was the meade 4505 sight. and thats what kind of scope i have. its a meade 4505 with the goto set up that came with it. i opened up the...
Good morning, My name is Albertine; I bought a used telescope after taking an astronomy class and am learning to use it. The telescope is the Meade 4504, but...
So if I am following this correctly, ds motors, with a modified "dumb" paddles set as specified below will allow a lxd500 mount to track correctly? If anyone...
For the life of me I cannot get this set up. As of lately, the moon has been fairly bright and full so that may be making it difficult to locate the stars. so...
... You do this in the daytime. At least I do. Find a small object that is distant enough to focus on. Get the object centered in your telescope eyepiece. Now...
Pi: When I got my 'scope, the motors were switched.? That raised absolute hell with trying to do anything more than a NP alignment.? You might want to check...
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Take look at the 4504 User's manual I just put up in the files (Files ... aligning the finder scope. I'm not sure what you mean by the "tripod". Generally, a...
I'm really not sure. It depends on the gearing ratios of the mount and the drives. The DH drives slew more slowly than the DS and ETX drives, but if IIRC the...
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