Just because a star may be millions of years old, doesn't mean it should take you that long to find it.
Until now, the stargazer's two biggest challenges to enjoying the night sky have been aligning their telescope and finding objects. Meade’s new ETX Premier Edition eliminates these two challenges and makes astronomy as easy as pushing a button – right out of the box. Want to see a hard-to-find deep space galaxy? Simply push a button. The same goes for planets, stars, nebulae and more. Just pick an object you want to observe, press a button, and then AutoStar® will automatically point your telescope and put it right in your eyepiece.
Don't know what you want to see this evening? Go to the “Tonight's Best™” tour in your AutoStar. It automatically selects the best objects in the sky for that particular time and location (from its database of over 30,000 celestial objects). All you need is a clear night, a dark sky and a little curiosity. Whether you already know the sky by heart, or are just beginning your journey of discovery, your Meade ETX-Premier Edition will take you where you want to go. Astronomy has never been so fun and rewarding.
Automatic Alignment + SmartFinder™
Meade's new ETX-Premier Edition automatically levels your telescope, points it to North and sets the time. You just enter your location or zip code. After your ETX completes its patented Level North automatic alignment procedure it will point to the first alignment star. Use the new wide-field SmartFinder to center the red dot over the alignment stars for ultra-precise pointing accuracy. It’s that easy.
• Electronic Level Sensor
• Electronic Magnetic North Sensor
• High Precision Internal Clock
• Red Dot Viewfinder (SmartFinder™)
Specifications:
Model: ETX-90PE
Aperture: 90mm (3.5”)
Optical Design: Maksutov-Cassegrain
Focal Ratio: f/13.8
Focal Length: 1250mm
AutoStar: #497
Field Tripod: #884
Software: AutoStar Suite AE
PC Interface Cable: Included
UHTC Coating: Optional
The Meade UHTC Group: The importance of the UHTC group becomes apparent when comparing total telescope light transmission, or throughput, caused by the multiplier, or compounding, effect of the four optical surfaces. With each optical surface contributing significantly to telescope light throughput, the effect of all four surfaces combined is indeed dramatic. At the H-a wavelength of 656nm, total transmission increases from 76.7% to 88.5%, an increase of 15.4%; at the helium wavelengths of 588nm and 469nm — strong emission lines in hot planetary nebulae — total telescope transmission increases by 13.8% and 16.8%, respectively; at the two nitrogen II lines of 655nm and 658nm and at the sulfur II line of 673nm, transmission is increased by 16%. Averaged over the entire visible spectrum (450nm to 700nm), total light transmission to the telescope focus increases by about 15%.
Observing with the UHTC: Meade ETX, Schmidt-Cassegrain, and Schmidt-Newtonian telescopes equipped with the UHTC present dramatically brighter images on the full range of celestial objects — from emission and planetary nebulae such as M8, M20, and M57 to star clusters and galaxies such as M3, M13, and M101. Observations of the Moon and planets, since they are observed in reflected (white) sunlight, benefit in image brightness from the full spectrum of increased transmission.
The overall effect of the UHTC is, as it relates to image brightness, to increase the telescope's effective aperture. Image brightness of the Meade 10" LX200GPS is, for example, effectively increased by about 0.75 inch of aperture.
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