Meade ETX-125PE Reviews
Product Type: Meade telescopes
Newest Review: ... give superb views due to the small central obstruction (for the secondary mirror). The Meade optics do justice to the ... more
... Maksutov design and are superbly implemented. The image is bright, sharp, and crisp, with little of the potential distortions of other scope types (e.g. chromatic aberration, coma). The UHTC coatings of the 'PE' edition increase the image brightness by a reported 15%.
Guiding software
'Goto' telescopes as they're known are advertised as easy for beginners to get the hang of. I have two issues with this. Firstly, the best way to learn about the night sky is to use a manually operated scope and 'star hop' following sky ma...more
Price Comparison for Meade ETX-125PE
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Meade ETX-125 PE Premier Edition Telescope Italiano Just because a star may be millions of years old, doesn't mean it ... Last Update 24.05.2013 03:53
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£ 989.00
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Customer Meade ETX-125PE Reviews (1)
by - written on 15/02/09 (Very useful, 1964 readings)
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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
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