New Meade models

http://www.meade.com/

John C.

Phil Wheeler wrote:
Alexander Avtanski wrote:

John C wrote:

http://www.meade.com/

John C.



Just a bit of fun, I thought I'd share with you. The LX90GPS page
says this:

"The NEW LX90GPS™ can do more than track satellites. It _talks_ to
them as well. [...]"



Yes, that amused me, too. Likely swears at them if appropriate.

No, more likely it will tell said satellites
that they are going to be served with legal papers
IMMEDEATELY because of said satellites infringement
on Meades patent on space in general........

GPS accuracy will then begin to suffer as the
satellites spend more and more time fighting off
dozens of frivilious lawsuits from LX 90GPS units.

Our salvation will be our next generation of GPS
satellites that have already bypassed Meades patent
by patenting universe first.

And all will be well again.
G




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"John C" wrote in message
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http://www.meade.com/

John C.

The interesting part of this new lineup is the "new" ahem Rittchey
Critien ahem again scopes. Let me repeat, a RC scope has 2 mirrors
both hyperbolic and no corrector plate(s). The RCX has a corrector
plate and only mild refiguring from the classical SCT design point,
much more like the coma corrected SCT from Rutten and vanVenrooij than
a real RC design.

The original RCXs remain and come with high quality mounts at F/8 and
are focused by moving the secondary, while the new ones revert back to
the F/10 of standard SCTs and are focused by moving the primary
(course) and by a drawtube focuser (zeroshift). This allows the RCX
optical design to utilize the volume production parts of the SCT line
and are priced at only a small adder to the SCT price structure.

I suspect this means that Meade will migrate to RCX optics over SCT
optics over the next year or so. I wonder what Celestron will do to
counter this move....

"John C" wrote in message
...
http://www.meade.com/

John C.

....and the SCT world's plot thickens...

RCX400 optics in a closed-tube SCT structure...

Film at 11:00...

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wrote:

I suspect this means that Meade will migrate to RCX optics over SCT
optics over the next year or so. I wonder what Celestron will do to
counter this move....

Hi:

I suspect the same thing. That the "classical" LX200 SCTs will be
phased out in favor of the new RCX style LX200 _SCTs_ ;-)...

Celestron? Hard to say. There is that 20 inch DK, but there'll have to
be more than that.

OTOH, Meade seems to be struggling a bit at the moment. I mean,
claiming that the alignment routine used by the Autostar scopes is
N-E-W!!!! just to counter Celestron's CPC technology....

You'll also notice Meade is announcing two new DSI cams and a GPS
version of the LX90...

Peace,
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and _The Urban Astronomer's Guide_

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John C wrote:
http://www.meade.com/

John C.

Just a bit of fun, I thought I'd share with you. The LX90GPS page
says this:

"The NEW LX90GPS™ can do more than track satellites. It _talks_ to
them as well. [...]"

and later:

"With all the features of the legendary LX90 Schmidt-Cassegrain
plus the ability to _communicate_ to satellites [...]"

What are they smoking at Meade? Are they taking about GPS? If so,
a GPS _receiver_ is hardly "communicating with satellites"?! Or
maybe they are really communicating, and you can expect to get the
following message on the controller screen, when trying to slew:

"Busy talking with a friend. Please, bug off!"

Regards,

- Alex, :-)

Apparently Meade also has a new triplet APO refractor
but seems shy about announcing it on its own website.

http://www.astromart.com/classifieds...fied_id=400381

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"John C" wrote in message ...
http://www.meade.com/

John C.

Jan Owen wrote:

...and the SCT world's plot thickens...

RCX400 optics in a closed-tube SCT structure...

Film at 11:00...


Pssst ... don't tell anyone but a corperate spy told me over a bottle of
Drambuie that Meade is using *real* RC optics. They are intserting under
the secondary mirror a picture of George Willis Ritchey. Unsigned of
course. Which is as close as these optics will get to being called R-C.

I sincerely doubt that RCOS and OGS are worried about these latest
developments.


Celestron will probably beat them to the punch. But hey... I'm cyncical.


Regards

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William R. Mattil wrote:

Celestron will probably beat them to the punch. But hey... I'm cyncical.


Regards

Bill
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Hi:

What punch? These optics have been used in the RCX series for a while
now.

Peace,
Rod Mollise
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and _The Urban Astronomer's Guide_

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