Meade LXD75 SN-10AT Schmidt-Newtonian Telescope with AutoStar
Item#: MEAD375- Ultra-high-transmission coatings
- Water-white glass
- Premium-grade Pyrex mirrors
- AutoStar controller helps you find more than 30,000 objects with push of button
Premium performer!
Meade's LXD75 SN-10 AT telescope with Autostar and UHTC coatings is a precision instrument that'll give superb service over a lifetime. It's the perfect instrument for the intermediate or advanced observer.
Expect all the conveniences. And expect ultra-sharp, ultra-bright images of planets and deep-sky objects like nebulae, star clusters, and galaxies. At this telescope's heart are premium-grade Meade optics.
Optical Performance
Diffraction-limited optics - 10-inch, Schmidt-Newtonian optics are mounted in precision-machined aluminum cells, which are in turn enclosed in sturdy, steel tubes and coated with high-grade, baked-on, textured enamel. The optical tube assembly is closed, reducing air currents inside, preventing image distortion and helping to keep optics clean. Corrector lens corrects fully for spherical aberration and provides pinpoint star images. Water-white glass increases light transmission more than 10 percent. Premium-grade Pyrex mirrors provide exceptional thermal stability and eliminate image shimmer. Extremely fast, well corrected F/ratios provide short photographic exposure times and wide fields of view.
Ultra-High Transmission Coatings - UHTC
The Meade UHTC group permits the highest levels of light transmission (a 20 percent increase in total telescope light transmission compared to the standard-equipment coatings) ever offered on amateur telescopes.
AutoStar Controller
The AutoStar controller helps you quickly find and GoTo more than 30,000 objects in the night sky. View planets, stars, galaxies, nebulae, and comets - all at the push of a button. AutoStar is pre-programmed with several guided tours, including the popular Tonight's Best. To take it, just input date, time, and location. Then let AutoStar take you on a guided tour of the best objects that particular night. The AutoStar controller can be updated, too. Log on to Meade.com to download software upgrades, guided tours, and timely objects like comets - free. Keep your AutoStar up to date and your telescope will grow with you for years to come.
High-Performance Features
- German equatorial mount with heavy-duty shaft and castings, as well as precision worm gears on both axes, to ensure precision tracking and slewing - essential for astrophotography.
- For ultra-precise pointing, the HPP function puts objects in the center of the field of view, allowing quick, easy location of deep-sky objects at the farthest limits of the telescope's capability.
- Periodic error correction eliminates periodic errors on the RA axis over the course of one or more training periods, minimizing guiding corrections during long-exposure photography.
- 9-speed drive controls provide a rapid slew rate
- 3-star alignment ensures precise alignment and eliminates the need for a complicated optical/mechanical alignment process
- Variable-height field tripod with spreader bar brace provides the excellent stability and vibration-damping required for both visual observation and astrophotography
- Illuminated polar alignment viewfinder offers quick, precise polar alignment
- Powered by 8 D-size batteries or by optional car cigarette lighter and AC wall adapters
Recommended Usage
Astrophotography , For the Enthusiast , Viewing Galaxies/Star Clusters , Viewing Nebulae , Viewing the Moon , Viewing the Planets
Power Source
Battery
Battery
8X D cell
Features
Equatorial Mount , GoTo
Brand
Meade
Weight Complete
85 lbs.
Finderscope
8x50
Lens Coating
UHTC
GPS
No
GoTo
Yes
Good for Astrophotography
Yes
Telescopes Series
Meade LXD75 Telescopes
Optical Design
Schmidt-Newtonian
Aperture
254mm
Focal Length
1016mm
Focal Ratio
f/4
Mount Design
Equatorial
Battery Included
No
Eyepiece 1
SP26mm
Highest Useful Magnification
500X
Limiting Magnitude
14.5
Resolution
0.46
Resolving Power
0.46
Objective Lens Size Code
254
User Level
For the Enthusiast
