Product Details
Meade ETX LS 6" ACF Telescope with LightSwitch Technology
The ETX-LS (Light Switch) aligns itself. Just flip the switch and off you go! Primary Mirror Diameter 6", Optical Design Advanced Coma-Free (ACF)
Meade’s revolutionary ETX-LS™ LightSwitch™ telescope uses advanced technologies like GPS, LNT™ and ECLIPS™ CCD imaging to do what no other consumer telescope has done before: take all the hassle out of using a telescope. Simply flip the switch and the ETX-LS automatically aligns itself. Astronomer Inside™ then takes you on a guided multimedia tour of the best objects in your sky. The new aluminum mount is lightweight and portable, yet has a rigid structure with precision worm-gear drives for the ultimate in tracking and pointing accuracy. All this combined with Meade’s Advanced Coma-Free optical system provides the stargazer with the most sophisticated, yet easiest to use telescope ever.
Meade takes out all the hassles and puts in all the fun with the all-new ETX–LS featuring LightSwitch technology. Now it’s fast and easy to perform all start-up functions with just a flip of the switch. The revolutionary LightSwitch technology automatically delivers telescope location, time, date, orientation and alignment with the sky — all with a single touch. And thanks to Meade’s exclusive Advanced Coma-Free™ optics, you see it all in stunning Ritchey-Chrétien-like clarity. And with the Astronomer Inside™ comprehensive multi-media content, you experience the universe in a way you never have before. In short, the ETX-LS incorporates everything you’ve come to expect from Meade, the undisputed leader in innovation and quality.
Features:
Light Switch Technology
The allignment process is longer needed. Setting the scope to North and being absolute level was a must.
Now its amazingly EASY.
Meade’s patented automatic self-alignment system — just one touch and it does all of the work for you. No stars to center. No bearings to take. No time or location to enter. Just flip the switch, and the Integrated Sensor Module in combination with the ECLIPS™(Electronically Controlled Locate Identify Position System) CCD imager delivers all the information necessary to automatically align your ETX-LS for fast, accurate, hassle-free viewing. All at the flip of a switch.
MEADE’S ASTRONOMER INSIDE
Take a multi-media guided tour of the universe, or select your favorite object and the ETX-LS’ Astronomer Inside gives you fun and informative audio descriptions of over 500 objects while you view them in the eyepiece or experience the whole dazzling multi-media presentation on an attached video monitor complete with audio, video, still images and text.
ACF (Advanced Coma -Free) Optics SHARP, CLEAR, BRLLIANT
Meade’s proprietary, Advanced Coma-Free optics are fantastic! Distortion-free clarity.
BUILT-IN IMAGING Excitement
The built-in ECLIPS CCD lets you capture widefield images of your favorite celestial wonders and display them in real-time or save them to an SD card, with no external computer needed. You can even connect and control another advanced DSI CCD camera and view images on an external monitor or save the images to the SD card or an external computer. Either way, you can start astro-imaging on your first night out!
AutoStar III® TOTAL CONTROL
The easy-to-use hand-held controller lets you select from a huge object database, with over 100,000 celestial objects. Just select an object and push the “GoTo” button and the telescope will automatically put your object in the eyepiece. The AutoStar III also gives you complete control of the Astronomer Inside multimedia features only available from Meade.
Specifications:
- Optical Design Advanced Coma-Free (ACF)
- Primary Mirror Diameter 6" (152mm)
- Primary Mirror Material Pyrex® Glass
- Focal Length, Focal Ratio 1524mm, f/10
- Optical Coatings Ultra-High
- Transmission Coatings (UHTC™)
- Resolving Power (arc seconds) 0.76
- Limiting Visual Steller Magnitude 14
- Mount Type Aluminum Single-Arm Fork
- Altazimuth Drives 4.875 inch precision worm-gear
- Power 8 "C" cell batteries or AC adapter Battery Life 3 to 5 hours
- Tripod New Adjustable-height Steel Leg
- Controller Hand Box Autostar III
- Processor 400 Megahertz Blackfin
- Memory 256 Megabytes of NAND Flash
- Storage Micro SD Card (user supplied)
- Input/Output USB 2.0
- Speaker Built in
Optical System
Mount:
Electronics:
Included:
Mount Connections USB, AutoStar Hand Box, 12v Power In, Electric Focuser, Audio Out, Video Out
Included Multimedia:
Content Descriptions of the Planets, Moon, Stars, Clusters, Nebulae, Galaxies and More Audio Over 4 Hours Featuring the Voice of Sandy Wood From "Star Date" Video 30 Minutes of Movies and Annimations Plus Hundreds of Still Images
