The Meade #902 Electronic Eyepiece transmits live, black-and-white images of the moon, planets, and terrestrial subjects from your telescope to a TV monitor, VCR, or camcorder. Made to fit 0.965″ or 1.25″ focuser sleeves, the eyepiece includes a 6-foot cable and requires a 9-volt battery that installs neatly inside the eyepiece housing. Contrast adjustment is built in.
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Martin Saban-Smith of Working Image gives us a tour of the Meade LXD75 telescope
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Does anyone have any experience in collimating a Meade Schmidt-Cassegrain
telescope?
All SCTs are the same in this respect, tweak the secondary until the out-of-focus donut is concentric.
What’s the problem?
Modified my Creative Webcam to fit my Meade DS-2130LNT Telescope. Recorded a short video clip of the Moon passing through the telescopes field of view in real time. Enjoy!
Special Thanks to jorowi
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I am practically an amateur when it comes to Astronomy – but I am highly interested in it. I take it very seriously, and enjoy it greatly. I do not want to waste my time on a poor telescope. I’ve heard good and bad things about Meade telescopes, but I’ve also heard quite good things about Celestron and Zhummell.
I want an affordable telescope, that has good quality. If anyone can tell me a overall good brand – or find one off Telescopes.com that looks good, please tell me. I appreciate it greatly.
Thank you.
The problem is that most of the big names in telescopes are primarily importers rather than manufacturers. The bulk of the telescopes you see advertised are in fact manufactured by a handful of companies, mostly in the Far East, with names you’ve never heard of, such as Synta in China and Guan Sheng in Taiwan.
I’ve owned and used telescopes from all the major brands, plus a few most people have never heard of:
http://www.gaherty.ca/telescopes.htm
On the whole, I’ve found Orion’s telescopes to be consistently the best. The other brands (Celestron and Meade are the main ones) are a mixed bag: their more expensive scopes are generally good quality, their less expensive ones, junk. Orion mostly avoids the worst of the imports, but still has a few lemons in their line; on average they’re better than Celestron or Meade.
Probably more important is the _type_ of telescope to buy. I generally recommend that beginners stay away from small refractors (as they don’t really show much) and equatorially mounted scopes (as they are complicated to use and often flimsy in construction). The best deal in telescopes today are Newtonian reflectors on Dobsonian mounts, such as those sold by Orion (with or without IntelliScope), Celestron, and Zhumell. I’m also impressed by Celestron’s Schmidt-Cassegrain telescopes, the NexStar SE and CPC series.
This is the last question that I’m going to ask on Telescopes as I’m getting fed up.I am not eniterly convinced that the Meade ETX90 is a powerful telescope,it just seems really small and plus the images that they show on the Meade website are not entirely covincing either.The images of some planets are very blurry,and I’d want it to be detailed enough to see bands on the Planets surface.Also the Telescope appears to very small.I can accept the fact that I’m probably not going to have a RCX400,seing as the starting price for that is $5,000!,but sometime in the future when I have a job of my own,I’ll buy one.The only better Schmidt Cassegrain I found was the 8"LX90GPS Meade and that costs $1,999,take that $1,999 and convert it into £s and you get £983.42 .This is under £1,000,What I want to know is,is an 8" LX90GPS good enough to see Galaxys and Planets in some detail,without beong blurry?
An 8" LX90 is at the bottom end of being able to see a lot of planetary detail. But you will be able to see bands and the GRS of Jupiter, and the Cassini division and some banding on Saturn, particularly if your seeing capability is experienced. You will be able to see some pretty nice detail in larger galaxys, but will be dimmer that a fast reflector due to focal length. This is actually a very good planetary and a pretty decent all-around scope for an amatuer.
But if you really want bang for buck, you could get a 12 or 14-inch Dob/Newtonian in that price range. Much bulkier scope, but blows the doors off an 8" SCT, particularly for faint-fuzzies like galaxys and nebulae.
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I need a carrying/storage case for a Meade 4500 telescope. Suggestions?
You have few options -
The cheapest would be to find a plastic tote box that fits the scopes length, width and depth.
Next would be a soft carry bag that the scope and tripod could fit into -
http://www.jimsmobile.com/images/case_soft_closed.jpg
http://www.telescope.com/control/cases-and-telescope-covers
The most expensive (cost more than the scope is worth) would be a hard case that’s custom fitted or can be adapted to fit the scope -
http://www.jimsmobile.com/buy_cases.htm#Multi
The other alternative is have one made or do it yourself.
I was thinking of upgrading my current telescope, i ve had a Meade etx 80 for sometime now, but i really want something a bit more advanced, and i ve heard that the cpc is great. I was wondering has any one got one and whats like to use. I thinking of getting the 800 model for cost reasons, any help would much appreciated. Also are there any other types of scopes for a similar price.
Depends on what you want. They are excellent but being SCTs they are not good for beginners as they are all f10 giving very high magnification – so it’s harder for you to star hop. Also not the best for astrophotography as they are fork mounted. Their best feature is that the tubes are small for their aperture & they have goto. If you don’t want goto or tracking get a dob instead. If you need them I would go for Celestron Advanced series – cheaper + can be used for astrophotos with no field rotation. SkyWatcher & Orion have nice stuff too.
Best place for reviews is here http://cloudynights.com/category.php?category_id=6&pr=2
What about an adapter?
There are four different DS-2000 series telescopes. Which one do you mean?
The usual setup nowadays is a DSLR with a T adapter. The mounts are unsuitable for photographing anything other than the Moon.
Can someone offer any suggestions?
I have a MEADE reflector with a go-to mount. The only way I can power this motor is by way of batteries. It does not offer a 12v plug either. Batteries are fine, especially if they are “rechargeable” but after about 2 hours of mopping the skies, I run out of battery and there goes my night of observing.
What surgeries can I perform on this mount in order to incorporate an outside power source to keep this baby moving all night long?
I have sent several emails to MEADE for advice, but I guess all they care about is “a good sale” for I get no replies.
Let me know
Ricky C
If it’s a DS series, go to www.weasner.com/etx and try asking there. I’ve given up on rechargeables in telescopes, because they seem to degrade so soon like old cell phone batteries. I use normal heavy duty ones.