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Up for auction is my MEADE LX200 GPS 8 telescope. You can find plenty of reviews of these scopes on theinternet and I think its probably the biggest scope you can own that can beconsidered portable. The scope on its own weighs around 3 stones (42lbs) so myregular procedure is to carry out the tripod, set it up and level it and thencarry out the scope and install it on the tripod.One of the photographs shows a thin plate in between thescope and the tripod. This is very useful as the raised edges help locate thescope onto the tripod bolt. The scope comes with a metal cover for the front glass. Thesmall aluminium piece shown on the metal cover is a bit of a mystery. It can beundone to reveal a hole about diameter. Ive asked on forums but no oneseems to be sure of its purpose. It could have been for some sort of solarfilter?The scope is fitted with an EZ finder along with the Meadefinderscope. I find the EZ finder very useful to help when doing thealignments.There is also a piggy back bracket mounted for attachingdigital SLRs and there is also a bar attached underneath the scope and thereare three weights included in the sale. These are useful for balancing thescope if you attach cameras or heavier 2 eyepieces.The picture of the front glass shows minor bits of dust butthese dont impact the optics and the last thing you do is to try and cleanthis glass!The scope tracks very well once aligned. Very occasionallyit struggles to get its GPF fix (and I do mean VERY occasionally Im justbeing honest!) but if this happens all you need to do is punch in the time anddate yourself after its done all its balancing.Basically mount the scope on the tripod. I then generallypoint it North and roughly set the tube level, turn the power on and whenAutostar boots up let it do the automatic alignment. It takes a couple ofminutes and sometimes the alignment stars it selects have to be centered by afew degrees but after that the GOTO is superb.It also comes with a large padded carry case for the scope,made from plywood with metal angles to strengthen. The tripod doesnt have acase unfortunately.Ill try and answer any questions you have. Whilst its buyercollects I will drive for an hour from Middlesbrough to deliver (York,Newcastle) however in this instance of course you wouldnt be able to see thescope in operation before purchase.Also included in the sale are 5 No Meade eyepieces, 32mm,20mm, 15mm, 12mm and 9mm and there are two barlow lenses (both 2x) one Meadeand one Orion. There is also an 8″ Bahtinov mask (to aid focussing).Finally there is a power adaptor plus connector for theMEADE scope.Thanks for looking.
Category: Cameras and Photography:Telescopes and Binoculars:Telescopes
Location: Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire
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