Meade 8" LX50 Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope - Used
This Meade 8" LX50 Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope is Used and in Excellent Condition.
- Upon inspection, we found that the telescope is fully functional. The optics are in excellent condition, and all standard mechanical components are fully operational. The exterior finish is free of cosmetic defects, and all original accessories are accounted for. This unit comes with an equatorial wedge, however, some components of the azimuth fine adjustment control are missing. While this does impact the overall performance of the wedge, the telescope can be operated in an equatorial mount configuration. The standard alt-azimuth mount configuration does not require an equatorial wedge. All other components and hardware are accounted for.
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- Comes with a High Point 90-Day Warranty.
Meade 8" LX50 Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope
The Meade 8" LX50 is designed for advanced visual and astrophotography applications. This classic Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope will provide the visual astronomer with beautiful views of our Solar System and beyond! With the precision Meade worm-gear motor drive system, astrophotographers will have no trouble capturing stunning long exposure photos of the cosmos!
The Meade 8" LX50 is a mirror-lens design telescope perfect for astrophotographer and amateur astronomers. Serious amateur astronomers will be able to view fault lines, craterlets, and pockmarks on the Moon, prominent features of the Martian landscape; the rings of Saturn and several satellites of Saturn; as well as surface phenomena on the planet Jupiter and the four principal satellites of Jupiter. Beyond the Solar System the LX50 model permits detailed observations of nebulae, star clusters, galaxies, and thousands of other deep-space objects.
For the astrophotographer, this telescope model facilitates long-exposure guided photography with its stable fork mounting DC electronic worm-gear drive system, and hand controller.
This Meade 8" LX50 SCT comes with a variety of accessories. This includes a stainless-steel standard field tripod, a standard equatorial wedge, a Magellan II Hand Controller, a heavy-duty LX200-type fork mount, and numerous accessories, such as a 1.25" diagonal prism, a 25mm multicoated 1.25" eyepiece, a bubble level, and a 6 x 30mm viewfinder.