Using the Meade ETX: 100 Objects You Can Really See with the Mighty ETX (The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series) - Softcover

Weasner, Mike

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1852333510 ISBN 13: 9781852333515

Publisher: Springer, 2002

Synopsis

The Meade ETX range of telescopes is one of the most successful ever made. It is low-cost, has sold in its tens of thousands, and is available in almost every country. Here, ETX expert Mike Weasner reveals everything any amateur astronomer ever wanted to know about the telescope. Features imaging (photographic and digital) as well as visual observing.

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Review

"If you own a Meade ETX it will show you what can be done and how to do it." -- Spaceflight, Vol.45, Issue 1, 2003

Synopsis

In 1996 Meade, the world's largest astronomical telescope manufacturer, introduced the ETX, a low-cost and genuinely portable instrument capable of results close to the theoretical limits of optical performance. Since then several different models have been introduced, most of them controlled by on-board computers that automatically point the telescope at objects selected from a database of 12,000. Unfortunately not all these objects are visible when looking through the ETX! (They are included because they can be imaged with special equipment. ) Mike Weasner is a world expert on the ETX range, and describes the "best" 100 objects to start with, and offers hints and tips about using and looking after the telescope to get the best possible results.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1852333510
• ISBN 13: 9781852333515
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224