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Using the Meade ETX - Mike Weasner

Description: ISBN 1852333510 / Genre: Science / Nature / Author: Mike Weasner / Paperback / 210 Pages / Book is published 2002-01-25 by Springer

Newest Review: ... runs the world's most popular ETX website (www.weasner.com/etx). The first couple of chapters familiarise the user with the ... more

... workings of the ETX telescopes; the different specifications of the various models and how their optics and mounts are designed and work. This information, although not essential to use the ETX, gives the newcomer lots of useful background to astronomy theory in general, and the ETX scopes in particular. After the initial chapters comes the most important section of the book. Use of the ETX and the 'Autostar' software is explained in great detail, and Weasner uses his wealth of experience to guide the beginner to suc...more

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Using the Meade ETX - Mike Weasner: Learn to use the 'Mighty Midget' to its full potential (861 words)
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A revolution in the design of amateur astronomy telescopes has occurred over the last decade. High quality, computer controlled telescopes promise 'stargazing at the push of a button' with their internal GPS sensors, levelling devices, and clocks apparently reducing the need for users to align their scopes. The idea is that, after self aligning, the telescope is simply told what to find and the object appears, as if by magic, in the centre of the eyepiece's field of view. Well of course, in reality it's not quite as simple as that and the subtleties of operation of a computer controlled scope defeat many potential astronomers and their scope ends up ... Read the complete review