Meade Lxd55. MEADE LXD55 Telescope W/ Tripod And CG3 Counterweighted Equatorial Meade's LXD-55 8-inch Schmidt-Newtonian has the classic look of telescopes from an earlier era Meade LXD55-Series telescopes provide a new level of sophistication and precision at a moderate price
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Meade 10" LXD55 SN10 Telescope provide a new level of sophistication and precision at a moderate price Features of Meade 5" LXD55 AR-5 Achromatic Refracting Telescope: Explore over 30,000 of Autostar's database objects - galaxies, nebulae, and star clusters - or any object of known RA and Dec
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Autostar Dual-Axis Electronic Control System: Locate any of 30,223 celestial objects in the Autostar database - automatically - at a push of the GO TO button. Unfortunately the telescope's trip from Meade to my doorstep was a rough one The two boxes that contain the optical tube assembly (OTA), mount and field tripod looked like they had been handled by the Samsonite gorilla and then dropped off a cliff (thanks UPS).
Meade LXD55. Attempting to mount a 10 inch scope to the LXD 55 is not a good idea, especially for imaging, and shame on Meade for attempting to sell it that way Meade has recently upped the bar in perceived value and performance in amateur astronomy packages with the introduction of the LXD55 series of scopes
Thoughts from Starlight Cascade » Meade LXD55 mount. Meade LXD55-Series telescopes provide a new level of sophistication and precision at a moderate price I acquired a LXD 55 mount about a year ago, as a portable mount for my Genesis APO