Thursday, June 15, 2006

Meade 10" LX200 F10 Goto Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope



Meade 10" F10 LX200 Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope (SCT) - This is the king of all my scopes, its large size and goto capabilities allow me to use this telescope for faint deepsky viewing and awsome planetary views. I use this scope mainly for planetary astrophotography althought I have tried some very limitid deepsky shots. I can't realy use this one for song exposures as it has an alt-az mountin and I get what is called rotation. I would need to get a wedge and a polar finder scope all of which is very expensive. This first image shows my LX200 SCT and mounted on top is both my 8x50 finder scope and my meade 2045 4" F10 SCT which I sold a couple months ago.





The last two pictures show the telescope setup. The controller that is seen hangning from the telescope is the goto and slew controls. The telescope has a computer that has a database of 64,000 objects (if i am not mistaken) and all i have to do is bring up the object i want to see on its computer by the hand controller and say goto and the telescope will automaticaly go to that object!

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