Meade ETX-125PE

My Dad has owned this scope for almost 18 months now and he and I have 'logged' many hours staring through the eyepiece at the night sky. Our experiences of this telescope have been a mixture of excellent and not so excellent. I thought I'd share my thoughts with anyone considering purchasing this telescope. The Meade ETX 125-PE is a small(ish) Maksutov Cassegrain astronomical telescope with 'Autostar' computer control (also known as a Goto scope). The Maksutov Cassegrain optics makes the telescope shorter than the more commonplace refractors or reflectors, and the computer control, in theory (I'll expand on this later), allows the user to send the telescope ...  Read the complete review