Bel Air Camera - Meade ETX-LS LightSwitch 6" go-to altazimuth

Meade - It's Here!! ETX-LS LightSwitch 6" go-to altazimuth $1,499.00
Bel Air Camera - Meade ETX-LS LightSwitch 6" go-to altazimuth

automatic sky alignment, and built-in color CCD camera

Meade - It's Here!! ETX-LS LightSwitch 6" go-to altazimuth

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This Meade ETX-LS 6” LightSwitch telescope has:
• LightSwitch technology for hands-free/eyes-free automatic alignment on the sky
• Advanced Coma-Free optics rival professional Ritchey-Chrétien scope performance
• built-in 640 x 480 pixel color CCD camera with 8° field
• Astronomer Inside multimedia output with built-in speaker and video output • UHTC optical multicoatings
• AutoStar III computer control with 100,000 object database

This Meade 6” ETX-LS ACF LightSwitch catadioptric telescope aligns itself on the skies automatically to make astronomy easy. You don't have to know Polaris from the Pleiades, or Albireo from Zubeneschamali, to align the scope on the sky each night. You just have to turn it on.

The Meade ETX-LS LightSwitch Technology uses a GPS (Global Positioning System) receiver, proprietary LNT (Level North Technology), an AutoStar III computer, and an ECLIPS (Electronically Controlled Locate Identify Position System) CCD camera to make the scope amazingly simple to set up and operate. Simply turn on your Meade ETX-LS. First the GPS receiver automatically determines where and when you are on Earth from the signals it receives from a network of Earth-orbiting satellites. Then the LNT system automatically levels the optical tube and points it north. Next, the AutoStar III computer automatically points the scope at two alignment stars. And finally the wide-field ECLIPS CCD camera images those alignment stars and automatically centers them for you to refine your celestial alignment.

You never have to look through the eyepiece or finder, or touch any button other than the on/off switch, to have your Meade ETX-LS perfectly align itself on the skies, ready to find 100,000 celestial objects for you at the touch of a button. You can be observing dozens and dozens of deep space objects like a seasoned observer your first night out.

This Meade 6” ETX-LS ACF catadioptric brings the image quality of a professional observatory to your back yard, at the lowest price ever for optics of this quality. Its Advanced Coma-Free optics have a flat, coma-free field that is visibly similar to that of the Ritchey-Chrétien design optics used in most professional observatory telescopes and the Hubble Space Telescope, but at a mere fraction the cost of a true Ritchey-Chrétien.

Remember that the best telescope for you is not always the biggest scope money can buy. It’s the scope you use most often. And with its superb balance of sensible aperture, reasonable weight, unique features, and low price, you will find yourself using the highly portable 6” Meade ETX-LS ACF with Advanced Coma-Free UHTC optics a lot. It may well be the perfect telescope for you . . . for life.