Meade ETX-LS

Posted Mon, 11/17/2008 - 21:55 by John Graham

There's a growing body of chatter on the Web about the first truly major change in the ETX line, the ETX-LS. An official spec sheet has yet to be released, but it looks like a 6" ACF SCT on a completely redesigned single-arm mount. It looks like a lot of the features of the MySky has been incorporated into the firmware along with a built-in CCD camera. The primary purpose of the camera seems to be to allow the telescope to automaticlly locate and center alignment stars (which implies a wide field of view), but can also be used for basic imaging. OPT is even taking pre-orders based on an estimate of the retail price and final specs. If you Google 'Meade ETX LS' you should get several good hits. From what I've seen it'll be a neat gadget-laden telescope that should be a lot of fun to use if you like gadgets.

It'll be a fun show to watch as this new telescope works its wasy o the market as we get our first real look at it.

-John

P.S.

I found a copy of Meade's press release at...

http://www.gadgetreview.com/2008/11/auto-star-gazing-comes-home-with-the-etx-ls-telescope.html

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New Meade ETX-LS

by rweiss - 11/26/2008 - 18:24

I agree with Jeff that Meade is in a bit of trouble. It will take good products with some wizz-bang approaches like this to turn them around.

Hopefully this telescope will do the trick. I know I'm interested in this new scope as well as what they might do with their larger lines such as the LX200-400. It will have to be bug-free as many of their other "go-to" scopes were plagued with problems on their first release.

They can not afford a problem product in their situation. I wish them the best of luck and really hope this is a slam-dunk!

Rick Weiss
MVAS President

Rick Weiss
President
Miami Valley Astronomical Society

LX200 Classic
Televue 76 with DSC
Nikon D300
and a whole bunch of other crap that the wife says I spent too much money on

I hope it helps their stock value

by soper - 11/18/2008 - 14:15

I own about 600 shares that have a value of $70 ($0.13 a share). I want the value to come up to about a $1.00 a share so I can afford to sell it.

Meade has been slipping in the market and in quality. I don't think that they will recover.

SWEET! I spotted an article

by prb_ohio - 11/18/2008 - 13:07

SWEET!

I spotted an article about this on 'gizmodo' last week, but without many details.

I look forward to seeing one of these in action - to see it use the CCD to do the alignment should be very cool.