SingAstro

alamak...you all keep on forgetting I'm a newbie...I just regurgitate what the "apparent" gurus say...heh heh...good that 2 SCT lovers responded here!
now if I can get KH to part his beloved 5" for an 8" heh heh

Hi Sam
I still need to confirm if it is correct. Meade themselves do not actually market the product, presumably because the OTA will hit the base near zenith...

I know. But I prefer a proper forkmount and none of that clumsy equatorial configuration with counterweights. Also, I don't fancy having to send it back to the US for supercharging and finetuning....

Nuts....US$900 I know its too good to be true..
Thanks for the tip, Vince Snr.
Still hoping for an 8" Goto for under US$1000...heh heh
I wished for the optics and mechanicals of the Nexstar 8 GPS but the autostar of the Meade and all for under US$1000 ! Am I too greedy?? :-)

rich

I just checked apogee and they are selling these old 8" LX10 scopes at a bargain US900+ for the normal one and $1100 for the UHTC version. This is the only place selling this scope (I thought it was discontinued as Meade does not list it on its site.) Can I check : 1. Is this scope an obsolete ...

nope...our resident scopetronix dealer, sam does not have one...
he did recommend to try apogee ....I'm hoping it won't cost and arm and a leg to satisfy my curiosity.. ..there appears to be one for US$26 but I can't confirm if its it....its called "eyepiece holder"

A good read if you want to know more about why a 4" refractor performs better than a 6" SCT...

http://www.licha.de/AstroWeb/articles_f ... 3?iHowTo=8

Not too sure if you're interested but I'm selling a book "Turn Left At Orion" which is a hightly recommended book in the US. It describes 100 objects you can see on a small telescope and how to find them. PM me if you're interested. Warning : does pampered by gotos can avoid this book! You...

There has been talk that the mirror on the diagonal of the ETX degrades the light transmission by around 10%. I'm curious to try a visual back option for my ETX. Anyone know where I can get the visual back adapter for Meade ETX? I want to try out using it without a diagonal for out-of-zenith objects...

I read about Remus' Epsilon scope and did some search for it . Antares did not indicate what aperture it is.... From the pics of the range, it looks like a short tube newtonian but is identified as a catadioptric. So what kind of scope is it and what is its strengths? would have asked myself but was...