Mike here: The tripod box will likely be no problem. Have a nice weekend! greets from switzerland Plan? if you have time, please let me know your opinion. Wich contains the tripod and other stuff!? what do you think about my Protected for transportation? it should be no problem for the large box Pictures of the packaging of the lxd55 and i don't know whether it's Opinion about the overseas shipping of the telescope. a friend of mine could order one to his place (chicago) and Restricitions, that's not possible with meade telescopes. U.s.-price! so i wanted to order one from the u.s.a. here in switzerland, meade telescopes cost nearly twice the Sent: Saturday, Ma found your lxd55-page via google and found a very interesting contentД¬reated by a competently person. Subject: question about the shipping and packaging of the lxd55 Mike here: Nothing over the last few nights although if you search the web you will likely find MANY sites with photos. Would allow me to include with my report.В Thanks in advance for your Pictures of Jupiter and Saturn taken over the past few nights that you The process of writing a report and was wondering if you had any My first astronomy course and am discovering a passion for it. Or you could make your own using info on the Helpful Information -> Astrophotography page.ДЇrom: 'Deanna Robertson' I want to thank you for sharing your pictures with so many of usДЄmateur astronomers.В In my case, I can hardly be called an amateurДЄstronomer, but rather an astronomy curios gal. Check Scopetronix: they may have a piggyback adapter for the 105. Check my ETX Site for lots of ETX info: cases, astrophotography, and more. Sorry about the hassles you had to go through but nice to hear that the ETX-105EC is performing well for you. On the market specifically for the 105's to piggy back? I see it for the Seen anything in the literature specific to the 105's. Also of interest, is some kind of after market attachmentДЇor piggy backing a camera and counterbalancing the scope. Star alignment, it went to two objects dead center. Out of the box after programing it, training the motors, and doing a 2 The tripod and 497 hand controller deal and paid for UHTC. It onlyД¬ost me $16 to ship and insure, which I consider to be reasonable.ДЄ recent purchase for me is a ETX-105EC which I like very much. We shipped just the mount back to Meade on the 14th of MarchДЄnd I had OPT fax a copy of my invoice to Meade on the 17th. As to a visual difference, yep, you'll see a difference, both in the maximum magnification and in brightness of images.ДЇrom: John Gilkison really do want to thank you for all your help with my SN-6 go/to I can't speak for OPT but some dealers may be able to do this. Mike here: Meade doesn't sell their 8'SC separately. What sort of difference would you see, say viewing Saturn throught theДЁ' SC as oppossed to the 6 inch SN? Would there be a world of Is it possible to buy the 8 inch SC independently of the mount? Do youДeal directly with Meade, or can you organise it through a dealer? I have the 8'SC and I've read that a 8' is really the largest that works really well with the LXD55 mount. But the larger the aperture the more weight and balance problems that can occur. Mike here: Yes, it is possible as Meade includes a 10' SN in the LXD55 line up. Do you think this is something that is feasible? Like to keep the 6 inch OTA as a traveller and be able to switch between For more info (time, location) see the SBAS web site ( ) and click on the 'First Light' newsletter.ДЇrom: 'Shane Allen' have a 6' SN but would like to investigate possibility of putting a

I plan on taking my LXD55 8'SC for the talk. I will be giving a talk at the 4 April combined meeting of the South Bay Astronomical Society and OASIS. Mike here: Just a heads up for anyone in the Los Angeles area. Please use an appropriate Subject Line on your message. If you have any comments, suggestions, questions or answers to questions posed here, e-mail them to me and I'll post them. This page is for user comments and information of a general nature or items applicable to all LXD55 models.

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