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The New LX850™ with StarLock™. The portable astro-imaging system that can be setup, aligned and imaging in less than thirty minutes. Only from Meade. Building on the foundation of the technologically revolutionary LX800, Meade engineers have taken the next step in astrophotographic evolution. We kept the same innovative concepts like Starlock™ fulltime automatic guiding and high-precision pointing, f/8 ACF OTAs with internal Crayford-style two-speed focuser and a portable precision German equatorial mount, but reengineered it to deliver more performance with less user effort. Here is a brief list of a few of the changes and new features made to create the new LX850: NEW polished bronze worms in both RA and DEC drivers that deliver smooth motion with low periodic error. NEW larger roller bearings in both RA and DEC axes to better handle larger loads. NEW roller bearings in the RA and DEC clutch assemblies to allow freer motion with the clutches loosened for easier balancing. NEW one-piece 1 inch thick saddle plate with improved dove tail clamps, thicker OTA rail and radius blocks to reduce flexure between the OTA and mount. NEW alternative StarLock mounting position on ACF OTAs for virtually no flexure between StarLock and the primary optics. NEW StarLock software improvements to guide star selection, tracking/guiding accuracy, Ultra High Precision Pointing, and Drift Alignment. NEW StarLock automatic guide rate calibration which analyzes the sky conditions and sets the best possible guide rates for both RA and DEC. Fast f/8 Advanced Coma-Free (ACF) optical systems on the 10'', 12'' and 14'' OTAs. These optics produce wider, flatter fields with no coma for pinpoint stars out to the edge of larger imaging sensors or extreme wide angle eyepieces. Internal Crayford-style primary mirror focusing system with a dual speed 7:1 focus control. Precise focus is a snap.

Meade 10 Inch LX850 ACF Telescope with StarLock

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rolling so this is the LX 800 this is the top line now for the Mead German equatorial mounts it's the only man on the marketplace to integrate itself guiding and that's all automated meaning the two little scopes you see off to the side ones a wide field camera ones a narrow field camera that's the star lock in that in the integration of the alignment process we actually photograph the the object you're looking for determine where it is center of that object the narrow field lens actually gives you us hooks up a one star net stars then photographed as quickly as every quarter of a second and then we adjust them out based on the information that stars getting that scope is getting on that star it's based around the LX 200 so it's got a hundred forty thousand objects in the database five point eight inch years two hundred twenty five t we also have a new optical system and fa which is rea