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Meade LX80

Power port on Meade LX80 seems to be the same as the Celestron CG5 & CGEM

by
cbrucker
, 07-22-2012 at 12:17 AM (Notes from the field. My rants raves and frothing at the mouth about this maddening and frustrating buy lovely hobby)

As a total fluke I found today that the LX80 plug is the same as the Celestron. I have a Starizona LiOn power pack and I had a adapter that Starizona sold to me so I could use it on my Meade products. I ended up accidentally breaking the adapter and hadn't gotten a replacement for it. As I was packing for the star party tonight I decided to just see what happened when I plugged it directly into the LX80. Lo and behold it powered on just fine!

On the subject of the Starizona power ...

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Meade LX80 , Lessons learned, technical and pro tips , Mounts , Equipment , Celestron GCEM and CG-5ASGT

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LX80 1st Light

by
cbrucker
, 06-22-2012 at 06:21 AM (Notes from the field. My rants raves and frothing at the mouth about this maddening and frustrating buy lovely hobby)

Tonight was first light with the LX80...

Impressions & thoughts starting with the bad...

It's a overly complicated $800 Alt/Az mount.

Overly complicated because in Alt/Az mode balancing the bloody thing is actually more difficult than on the CGEM. In Alt/Az the rail saddle is facing sideways which means for any OTA you are going to be supporting it all by yourself with no help from gravity. It uses a narrow and short Vixen saddle which again means ...

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Meade LX80 , Celestron NexStar C11 OTA , Mounts , Telescopes

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The LX80's are comming! The LX80's are comming!

by
cbrucker
, 06-15-2012 at 11:36 PM (Notes from the field. My rants raves and frothing at the mouth about this maddening and frustrating buy lovely hobby)

... Well maybe...

I spoke to Farrah at Woodland Hills Telescope & Camera today about my order on the LX80 mount with 10" OTA. A wonderful lady by the way and a shop with great customer service. So much so that I don't grumble too badly about the 1 to 1 1/2 hour drive to go 35 miles from my house to their shop on the bloody <many dirty names removed> 101 freeway!

Sorry I digress.

I told her that rumor had it Meade had received a shipment ...

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Meade LX80 , Celestron NexStar C11 OTA , Mounts , Telescopes

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