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Used orion telescopes for sale For many astronomers who are just getting started, dobsonian reflector telescopes are a popular choice. I’m pretty sure Galileo is jealous! More beginner telescope types:įollow the author. Light that left four of the bright stars in that region, at the moment Galileo first looked upon the sky with his spyglass, is just now reaching yours. Enjoy!Īnd when you set up your new refractor for the first time, consider looking at the constellation Scorpius (if it’s then in your sky). Longer customer service hours would be nice, but Meade’s representatives are friendly and helpful when you can get one on the line. Meade's warranty is not as long as some others in our lineup, but the quality is so high we don’t expect you’ll need a service contract.
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But Meade’s manuals are easy to find online if you lose yours, or if the paper pages get mushy from spending the night on dewy ground.We could not find any online help-videos about this telescope, which can make a big difference if you are stuck on assembly or alignment procedures.
Meade’s website is not as well organized or as informative as some competitors. And you really will be if you invest in this instrument. But they will make you feel like you’re part of an elite society. Consequently, their customer support may not be the best at helping with beginner’s issues. And under the night sky it will pull in the wonders, wonderfully. So you can easily use it as a spotting scope for terrestrial observing during the daylight hours. The sealed optical tube should perform extremely well for many years with very little maintenance.Īs a refractor on an altitude/azimuth ("alt/az") mount, it’s intuitive to point and capable to giving a "right-side-up" image. but that contributes to its stability as you observe. Meade’s StarNavigator 102 is one solid scope. But the 102’s lightweight single fork mount and small stepper motors are not beefy enough to track accurately for astro-photography with a heavy camera mounted out at the end of the relatively long optical tube. Īn internal battery pack ensures you will not have to struggle with cord wrap, no matter how long you track an object. You must first perform a short alignment process, which requires you to tell the telescope a few things about where it is and when it is. The StarNavigator will find and track more than 30,000 objects on the night sky using Meade’s "AudioStar with Astronomer" go-to computer platform. But the StarNavigator 102 distorts color much less than most others of its size because – true to it heritage -Meade has shaped and coated these lenses to be “achromatic.” "Go-To" Computer – Finding & Tracking Targets But that tends to put colored edges on objects. To refract means to break-up – that’s how this scope-type magnifies. That’s about 4 inches of light gathering diameter – very nearly 4x Galileo’s! The "102" number refers to this scope’s 102mm of aperture. That’s one reason our reviewers chose the Meade StarNavigator 102 as our leading Refractor for beginners.
Laboratory-quality optics run deep in the DNA of telescopes by Meade. For well under $500, you can see – in just one of two evenings – most of what he saw, but in much better detail and with higher clarity than he saw it.In fact, so good is modern glass, you can see far beyond. Galileo would have been amazed at today’s refractors. Going Beyond Galileo: Meade’s StarNavigator 102