crazyqban
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Very nice Brian. Now get out there and enjoy it!!!
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Takahashi Teegul Alt-Az / Takahashi EM-200 USDII
Zeiss Abbe II's pair / AP/Baader Mark V
Televue 3mm-6mm Nagler Zoom / 41mm Panoptic / Two 24mm Panoptics
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CharlieB
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Loc: Southern NH
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You will love that mount. I replaced the capacitors in the hand controller and main boards that have a propensity to blow (mine is a 650, but the electronics are the same). You might want to talk to the gentleman at the Astronomy-Shoppe about it. I just picked up a spare controller for mine and there was a source for spare controller keypad membranes. There is also a LXD750 Yahoo Group, although it is not very active lately. You want to keep that mount going as long as you can. I am envious of the scope and even more so of the mount.
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Charlie
C6-R, Apogee Widestar 5", Apogee Widestar 4", C4-R
Wideview 4", Orion 4", Apogee 3.5", AT80EDT, 66SD, Tasco 2TE
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belgrade
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Loc: San Antonio, TX, USA
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Congrats!! Both set ups are great but, as a fan of refractors, I like the 6" scope/mount one (even) better. It's a wonderful ED/APO scope and the mount rocks!  Why in the world Meade doesn't redesign it and modernize it and sell it again??  It could be a thing that would help them get out of that ditch that they ran themselves into...
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Astronomy Technologies Astro-Tech AT80ED 80mm f/7 ED doublet refractor
Meade LXD75 AR6-AT achromatic refractor 152mm/F8
Meade Adventure Pack 10x50 binoculars
Meade Series 4000 Super Plossl EPs
OPT 2" Quartz Dielectric Diagonal
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Starman27
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Reged: 01/29/06
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Loc: Illinois, Iowa
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Brian,
You will love this scope. I've had the 178ED and LXD750 and still have a 102ED 650 LXD. Good scopes and the prices are right. You did good. Now sit back and enjoy it.
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Enjoy the dark,
Herman
Meade
14 LX200 GPS SMT
12 LX200 GPS
7 LX200 Maksutov
ETX 125
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Sky 90II
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Joselo
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Loc: Texas
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Brian,
welcome to the refractors Forum, congrats on the new baby ...
Personally I love refractors... especially TAKs, 
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deSitter
Carpal Tunnel
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Man that scope has a wider stance than Senator Craig!
What a beauty! I'm looking forward to owning the 152 or 178 eventually. Congrats!
-drl
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rick rian
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Congratz, Brian, she's a real keeper! You've done very well for yourself. 
Now enjoy the views! 
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Rickster
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TV85
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KerryR
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Loc: SW Michigan
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Is this the one with the broken radial adjustment ring?
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Kerry
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Trever
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The scope looks wonderful!
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Trever
Explore Scientific 152mm F/6.5 Achromat
Celestron CGEM 11 XLT SCT
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Erik Bakker
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My colletion. My wife asked me; "how many telescopes is enough"? Answer; "I won't know until I have enough--I guess". Ugh!
Hi Brian,
Superb 7" you got here. Is the 10" SCT going to retire?
Clear skies,
Erik
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Visual astronomer, main instruments:
Fully mounted Questar 7 P-BB
Celestron C 102F f/8.8 fluorite
Vixen FL 70S f/8 fluorite
Celestron C 55F f/8 fluorite
Sets of Zeiss, TeleVue and Brandon eyepieces
Zeiss 7x50 Marine B/GA
Zeiss TM german equatorial
Gitzo 224 with Manfrotto 501 fluid head
Unitron alt-az mount
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Scott Beith
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That is a big doggone scope!
I like it!
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   SLAP Observer (TMB130SS, SV102V, SV80ED)
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"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." -- George Orwell
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Eddgie
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See what I was telling you (I think it was you) in a previous thread about the spread of the legs on the mount being like the Lunar Lander? And when you extend the legs to get the eyepiece up higer for viewing at Zenith, it gets even BIGGER!. Took up 1/3rd of my patio.
Again, a good mod is to replace the threded rod with a longer one to lower the top spreader, and replace the bottorm spreader rods with shorter ones.
This raises the saddle making int less necessary to extend the legs, and it brings the leg ends closer together making it much easier to navigate around the mount in the dark.
Also, it makes if FAR less likely that the scope will contact a leg when viewing at zenith. In fact, you will find that the hand controller won't even allow you to VEIW very close to Zenith because of this. If yours is like mine though, after you change the tripod spread, you can use the "Pier" option and the scope will then point at zenith.
Easy mod to make. Took me an about 1.5 hours to make 3 spreaders and to cut the rod and file the space for the "C" clip.
Meade 152ED is a great telescope. I hope you enjoy yours.
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Astro-Physics 6" f/8 (Buffy)
Televue 101 (No name, but I call it my Widescreen HD Space TV)
The night sky is my mistress. She seduces me away from all other lovers.
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TomN
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My wife asked me; "how many telescopes is enough"? Answer; "I won't know until I have enough--I guess".
Only three?? You have a long way to go, my friend! HAHAHA! Welcome to the wonderful world of refractors! 
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Amateur Astronomer since 1962.
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deSitter
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I would just use this tripod for my SCT and put the head on a Berlebach tripod.
-drl
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deSitter
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That's a really nice modification.
-drl
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See what I was telling you (I think it was you) in a previous thread about the spread of the legs on the mount being like the Lunar Lander? And when you extend the legs to get the eyepiece up higer for viewing at Zenith, it gets even BIGGER!. Took up 1/3rd of my patio.
Again, a good mod is to replace the threded rod with a longer one to lower the top spreader, and replace the bottorm spreader rods with shorter ones.
This raises the saddle making int less necessary to extend the legs, and it brings the leg ends closer together making it much easier to navigate around the mount in the dark.
Also, it makes if FAR less likely that the scope will contact a leg when viewing at zenith. In fact, you will find that the hand controller won't even allow you to VEIW very close to Zenith because of this. If yours is like mine though, after you change the tripod spread, you can use the "Pier" option and the scope will then point at zenith.
Easy mod to make. Took me an about 1.5 hours to make 3 spreaders and to cut the rod and file the space for the "C" clip.
Meade 152ED is a great telescope. I hope you enjoy yours.
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Freddy WILLEMS
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Hi Fitz, Looks great !
I have the 127mm and did some collimation on it and now it performs great. The older type still has all the adjustment screws in it, so lots of room for corrections if needed.
Love to see images taken with the 152mm.
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Freddy
Meade 14" LX200 GPS UHTC GPS on permanent pier
Celestron C 14" Peltier cooled for planetary imaging.
Meade 10" LX200 & TITAN 50:1 mount Gemini 'go to'
Meade 127 mm f/9 APO & TITAN 50:1 mount Gemini 'go to'
W/O 102 mm f/7 APO doublet
Orion 80 mm f/7 ED
DFK 21AU04.AS
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Ziggy943
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My colletion. My wife asked me; "how many telescopes is enough"? Answer; "I won't know until I have enough--I guess". Ugh!
Beautiful scope.
Yep, you'll know when you have enough. You can tell her that you don't have enough yet.
Let us know when you get out of the hospital.
Edited by Ziggy943 (11/16/09 11:03 AM)
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Ziggy943
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Man that scope has a wider stance than Senator Craig!
What a beauty! I'm looking forward to owning the 152 or 178 eventually. Congrats!
-drl
Ouch 
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May your skies always be clear,
Ziggy
www.slas.us
4" Mak
#1, 160mm F8 TEC (born 1-18-2007, 27 lbs, 45.5" long), on AP900
6" F17.5 (D&G lens) (first light 6-7-2008)
9" F/14.8 Alvan Clark (1915), on Byers 812
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Svezda
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Reged: 06/01/07
Posts: 264
Loc: Texas
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That is a transmission vs. wavelength graph for an LPR filter, obviously, as people have said but the only thing Hitachi about the filter is the graph paper for the plotter used to print the graph (there may be an old Hitachi plotter though I haven't seen one). Hitachi makes a lot of different stuff from bulldozers to semiconductors but no filters or other optics. Used to work for Hitachi 1989-1997.
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nightowl
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Reged: 08/02/04
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Loc: los angeles, ca
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Hi Brian, those are great scopes. They are personal observatory material, that's for sure. Congrats on the Meade.
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"I saw the universe and I saw its secret designs, and now laying in darkness, I allow the days to forget me." -- Jorge Luis Borges
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