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Aperture: 203.2mm(8-Inch). Focal Length: 2032mm. Meade’s revolutionary LS LightSwitch series of telescopes use advanced technologies like GPS, LNT and ECLIPS CCD imaging to do what no other consumer telescopes have done before: take all the hassle out of using a telescope. Simply flip the switch and the LS automatically aligns itself. Astronomer Inside then takes you on a guided multimedia tour of the best objects in your sky. The aluminum mount is lightweight and portable, yet has a rigid structure with precision worm-gear drives for the ultimate in tracking and pointing accuracy. All this combined with Meade’s Advanced Coma-Free or Schmidt-Cassegrain optical systems provide the stargazer with the most sophisticated, yet easiest to use telescope ever. AutoStar III — TOTAL CONTROL The easy-to-use hand-held controller lets you select from a huge object database, with over 100,000 celestial objects. Just select an object and push the “GoTo” button and the telescope will automatically put your object in the eyepiece. The AutoStar III also gives you complete control of the Astronomer Inside multimedia features only available from Meade. FEATURES: LightSwitch Technology The LS knows where it is in time and space even if you don’t. Just flip the switch and be ready to explore the cosmos. Innovative technology is applied to make using the LS simple, easy and fun. Astronomer Inside Learn the secrets and details of the objects you observe while you are viewing them with both audio through the built-in speaker and video (if connected to a video monitor or TV).

Meade Instruments 8-inch LightSwitch Series Telescope with Advanced Coma-Free Optics

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The LS series telescope, available in 6" & 8" size, is the easiest to use computerized telescope in the market. It uses the patented Light Switch technology to make you an instant astronomer. How easy is it to use? You simply, turn on the switch. How does it work? The LightSwitch, or LS telescope, has a database of 100,000 objects in its onboard computer - knowing the map of the stars, celestial objects, and planetary objects in the night sky at any given time. Its built-in GPS knows the time you're observing and your location on Earth. The LS knows where the guide or reference stars are located so it will point at their approximate location. The built-in CCD camera now takes pictures of the night sky to exactly locate the reference star. The LS will now center the reference star and then move to the next alignment star. This process will occur two more times and after approximately fiv