So You Want a Meade LX Telescope! - (Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy) by Lawrence Harris (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>For anyone considering buying a high-end Meade telescope, this book offers an experienced user's guide to what can actually be achieved with it. It also offers a guide to the many software packages available to aid optimizing and actually using the scope.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Meade LX200GPS/LX400 Series Telescopes.- Accessories, Great and Small.- Balancing and Polar Alignment.- Essential Software for Basic Operations.- Software Adjustment of Periodic Error and Polar Alignment.- Autoguiding.- Using Advanced Software.- Adaptive Optics.- A Guide to Weather Satellites.- Some LX200 and LX400 Projects.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>The revolutionary computer-controlled Meade LX200 series of telescopes was introduced in 1992 and represented a giant step forward in technology. The series was an instant success, and Meade LX200 telescopes have since sold in huge numbers compared with many other astronomical telescopes!</p> <p></p> <p>The LX200s are extraordinary telescopes capable of producing amazing results, but managing them can be a chore. So You Want a Meade LX Telescope! includes the essential hardware operations and reviews the best of the many software packages available to aid you in the setting up and use of the telescope. Typical results and various ways to achieve these results are given in detail, so readers can know what to expect from construction to image. Also included are reviews of essential accessories such as CCD cameras and the latest "active optics" units.</p> <p></p> <p>This book gives readers the benefit of Harris's many years of experience as both a professional astronomer and owner of Meade LX telescopes, including the top end LX400. For anyone owning or considering buying a high-end Meade telescope, this book is the most valuable accessory you can buy!</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>From the reviews: </p>"This book is a lot more than the main title suggests since it helps a prospective telescope purchaser select and use the LX200 and other Meade models. ... This is an ideal book for those already owning a Meade telescope and especially as a stimulus to get existing telescopes out of mothballs and back into use. ... the book majors on the Meade LX range it will be of value to other GOTO-telescope users. I will be referring to my copy on a regular basis." (Tom Boles, The Observatory, Vol. 131 (1220), February, 2011)<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Lawrence Harris retired from his job as a British government scientist where he had worked as a professional astronomer in solar studies and then astronomical satellite operations. For the last seventeen years he has been a columnist, specializing in writing about weather satellites, along with occasional articles on astronomy. He also contributes to astronomical society magazines.
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