Meade LX90-ACF 8" Telescope

Price: $1999.00

General Features

• The Meade 8" LX90-ACF Telescope sports an advanced coma-free design that produces a flatter image with pinpoint stars all the way to the edge of the field.
• The Meade 8" LX90 includes a rigid cast aluminum double-tine fork mount and a heavy duty LX200 Series adjustable tripod.
• Turn it on and the built-in Sony GPS sensor immediately determines your precise date, time and location.
• The Meade 8" LX90-ACF comes fully equipped with a Sony GPS receiver, an oversized primary mirror with diffraction limited optics, Audiostar controller with a 30,000+ object library, Smart Drive, Periodic Error Correction (PEC), Autostar Suite Software!

GPS - The Meade LX90 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. Meade's AutoAlign™ technology then uses this info to align your scope for a tour of the most spectacular sights in the universe.

Easy Align™ – Meade LX90s are smart scopes that know the night sky right out of the box. Easy Align picks two alignment stars for you and places them right in your telescope's viewfinder. Just center these two stars to fine-tune your alignment and the wonders of the universe will be at your fingertips.

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.

8 X 50 Viewfinder – With the 8x50 finderscope, you can quickly and easily locate and center deep sky objects.

Slew Speed – The Meade LX90 telescope can slew (move) 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 LX90 will show you two to three times more objects.

Rigid Cast Aluminum Fork Mount – The Meade LX90's Optical Tube Assembly, or OTA, is mounted on two sturdy fork arms, giving you a rock solid platform for astrophotography.

LX200 Series Tripod – The LX90 comes standard with the same sturdy, adjustable field tripod as the more expensive Meade LX200-ACF series telescope.

Smart Drive – Meade’s AudioStar® provides Periodic Error Correction (in polar mode). Over the course of one or more training periods, your LX90 will minimize guiding corrections during long exposure astrophotography.

AudioStar Controller – Meade’s AudioStar® controller can be updated free at meade.com as new software releases occur. Keep your AudioStar up-to-date, and your LX90 will grow with you for years to come.

About the Meade AudioStar Controller...

Originally developed for the ground breaking series of Meade LS LightSwitch telescopes, Astronomer Inside is built into the new AudioStar Handbox that is included with Meade's LX90, LT and LXD75 lines of telescopes. Now the intelligence integrated into these Meade telescopes provides the user with all the experience and astronomical knowledge that a professional astronomer could offer. The incredible Astronomer Inside does all this:
• Knows the sky so you don't have to. The AudioStar controls the telescope to find and track any of over 30,000 celestial objects automatically.
• The Meade AudioStar takes you on a guided tour... and shows you the best objects in your sky from your location and time and then plays audio descriptions of those objects so you learn the details of what you are seeing.
• With over four hours of audio descriptions of astronomical objects including planets, stars, constellations, clusters, nebula, galaxies and more that bring astronomy to life, the Meade AudioStar is like having a professional astronomer standing next to you at the telescope!

Specs.

Optical Design : Advanced Coma-Free

Clear Aperture: 203mm (8")

Focal Length: 2032mm

Focal Ratio: f/10

Optical Coating: Ultra-High Transmission Coatings
 
Optical Tube Dimensions: 9.1" x 16.75"

GPS: Sony GPS

Viewfinder: 8 X 50

Telescope: Mounting fork type, double tine

Setting Circle Diameters: RA: 8º, Dec: 5º
 
Zero Image Shift Microfocuser: optional

Go To Pointing Precision (approx): 5 arc minutes

Pointing Precision in High Precision Mode: 3 arc minutes

Slow-Motion Controls: electric, RA & Dec

Batteries (user supplied): 8 X C cells

Battery Life (approx.): 60 hours

Onboard Celestial Object Database: 30,223 objects
 
Slew Speed: RA & Dec: 1x, 2x, 8x, 16x, 64x, 128x sidereal and 1.5º/sec, 3º/sec, & 6.5º/sec

Tracking Rates: sidereal, lunar, or custom-selected from 2000 incremental rates
 
Tube Bod: aluminum

 Mount Castings: aluminum

 Primary & Secondary Mirrors Pyrex: glass

Correcting Plate/Lens: clear water white glass

Total Net Telescope Weight: 33 lbs. without tripod

Field Tripod Height: 30" to 44" variable