The NEW LX90GPS™ can do more than track satellites. It talks to them as well. Turn it on and the built-in Sony® GPS sensor immediately determines your precise date, time and location. AutoAlign™ then uses this info to align your scope for a tour of the most spectacular sights in the universe. With all the features of the legendary LX90 Schmidt-Cassegrain plus the ability to talk to satellites, the new LX90GPS now has it all. When it comes to industry-leading American-made optics, depth of features, and value for your dollar, the LX90GPS is the best Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope you can find that can find itself.
• AUTOALIGN™ – Telescopes with Meade’s new AutoAlign come pre-aligned. They are smart scopes that know the night sky right out of the box. AutoAlign picks two fail-proof alignment stars for you and places them right in your view-finder. Just center them to fine tune your alignment and the wonders of the universe are at your fingertips.
• DIFFRACTION-LIMITED MEADE SCHMIDT-CASSEGRAIN OPTICS
Meade individually figures their water-white corrector lenses and
Pyrex® primary and secondary mirrors for superior light transmission, temperature stability, smoothness and correction.
• OVERSIZED PRIMARY MIRROR – Only Meade manufactures their primary mirrors in diameters larger than their listed aperture (e.g. the diameter of the 8" LX90’s primary mirror is actually 8.25").This additional 1/4" yields a wider, fully illuminated field-of-view, and allows you to see the light other telescopes leave behind.
• SLEW SPEED – The LX90GPS slews (moves) from star to star at 7 degrees per second.That is more than twice as fast as the competition. This means that over the course of an evening, a Meade LX90GPS will show you two to three times more objects.
• RIGID CAST ALUMINUM FORK MOUNT – The Meade LX90GPS's Optical Tube Assembly is mounted on two sturdy fork arms giving you a rock solid platform for astrophotography.
• LX200™ - SERIES TRIPOD – The LX90GPS comes standard with the same sturdy field tripod as the LX200R series telescope.
• SMART DRIVE™ – Meade’s AutoStar® provides Periodic Error Correction (in polar mode).Over the course of one or more training periods your LX90GPS will minimize guiding corrections during long exposure astrophotography.
• AUTOSTAR CONTROLLER – The Meade AutoStar controller helps you quickly find, and GoTo over 30,000 objects in the night sky. View planets, stars, galaxies, nebulae and comets—all at the push of a button. You don’t already know the night sky? Let our preprogrammed Tonight’s Best™ tour in your AutoStar automatically point your telescope to the best objects in the sky. Astronomy has never been so easy and rewarding.
• SMARTFINDER™(RED DOT) & 8 X 50 VIEWFINDER – Quickly and easily locate and center deep sky objects.
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. Averaged over the entire visible spectrum (450nm to 700nm), total light transmission to the telescope focus increases by about 15%.
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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