imjeffp
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Meade company history by Company 7
Wow, you want to talk about out-of date info!
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Meade Instruments Corporation is a highly successful U.S. based multinational consumer optics company...
The Meade facility in Irvine, California is one of the largest and most advanced commercial telescope manufacturing operations in the world ...
All of the more advanced Meade telescopes including their ETX-90 EC, ETX-125 EC, LX90, LX200, and other models, are manufactured at the Meade Irvine factory. ...
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w orchid
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Loc: Tampa, Fl
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Wasn't the super polaris C8 equipped with the sky sensor the first primitive goto?
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Celestron C8 orange tube circa 1982
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gnabgib
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Wasn't the super polaris C8 equipped with the sky sensor the first primitive goto?
Perhaps we should also include the "Autoscope" by R. Genet amongst the "first primitive go-to's"!
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Jason B
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Wasn't the super polaris C8 equipped with the sky sensor the first primitive goto?
That was a Vixen system. Not sure if that predates the Compustar or not. Uncle Rod?
Jason
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Hal Pollner
Reged: 08/30/05
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Loc: Southern California Desert
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I just ordered my eighth MEED telescope, a 12" LX200ACF.
(Meade purposely misspelled)
Beginning in 1995, my MEED scopes were as follows:
10" 2120 SCT
16" StarFinder Dob (John Dobson looked through this scope and said the images were "very good")
12" LX200GPS/UHTC GoTo
10" LX200GPS/UHTC GoTo
6" AR6 Refractor GoTo
8" LX90LNT/UHTC GoTo
16" LightBridge Dob
12" LX200ACF/UHTC GoTo (recently ordered)
I have never found any problems with MEED telescopes, and my new LX200ACF (a Richey-Chretien design) should give me the best visual images ever!
I have also owned three Celestrons, three Discovery PDHQ's, a 16" NightSky and even a 20" Obsession!
I sold all of my earlier MEEDS and other brands to make room for newer telescopes...that's all!
HAL
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Edited by Hal Pollner (08/03/08 12:13 PM)
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CHASLX200
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I've owned well over 50 Meades, only the three 2045's 4" SCT and a Meade 7" ED were complete dogs when it came to the optics.
All of my many LX200's and older Meade scopes were all excellent.
Chas
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clockrepairman
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Reged: 09/29/07
Posts: 31
Loc: Washington State
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my meade dog was a 102achro!!!!!!
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rmollise
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Wasn't the super polaris C8 equipped with the sky sensor the first primitive goto?
That was a Vixen system. Not sure if that predates the Compustar or not. Uncle Rod?
Jason
Gosh, you're asking me to try to fire up the 1980s brain cells! 
'Bout the same time, I recall.
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Watch for Rod's New Book:
Choosing and Using a New CAT--coming in December!
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CHASLX200
professor emeritus
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I think the sky sensor came out around 1986.
Chas
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Hal Pollner
Reged: 08/30/05
Posts: 6213
Loc: Southern California Desert
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HEY CHAS:
Over FIFTY Meade telescopes, you say?
That's unbelievable!
(no it isn't...)
HAL
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Al Canarelli
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Reged: 12/06/07
Posts: 1560
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I've owned well over 50 Meades
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And when you add all the other brands, it makes a lot of telescopes. This makes you the Wilt Chamberlain of astronomy. 
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George Methvin
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Reged: 01/30/06
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Loc: Central Texas
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My count in 48 years I have owend 3 Meades and 2 Celestrons all have been good scopes. I have owened 5 others telescopes so 10 scopes in the last 48 is not to bad.. 
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