So You Want a Meade LX Telescope! How to Select and Use the LX200 an
The revolutionary computer-controlled Meade LX200 series of telescopes was introduced in 1992 and represented a giant step forward in technology. The series was an instant success, and Meade LX200 telescopes have since sold in huge numbers compared with m
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So You Want a Meade LX Telescope! How to Select and Use the LX200 and Other High-End Models Lawrence Harris
Lawrence Harris Stowupland UK [email protected]
ISSN 1431-9756 ISBN 978-1-4419-1774-4 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-1775-1 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-1775-1 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2010925109 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Acknowledgments
Books take time to be written. During that time, various people are called upon to help resolve the puzzles and queries that arise. Many people helped me arrive at the end of this project, so I want to acknowledge that help here. I am indebted to Richard (Dick) Seymour, Andrew Johansen, Mike Weasner, and Jason Ware for their sterling work, reading drafts of the components of Chap. 2 and offering several useful suggestions based on their own expertise of the LX scope series. Their help during the writing of the PEC section was unsurpassed. Rather than merely using my own images I posted a request for contributions and was delighted with the quality of images supplied to me. I regret that only a few could be selected because of space limitations. My thanks to all who responded. My grateful thanks to Ray Gralak, the author of PEMPro who kindly agreed to check the draft of the PEC software section for errors. Terry Platt helpfully checked Chap. 9 and provided some interesting pictures. Dr. R.A. Greiner and Dr. Clay are in a class of their own when it comes to expertise of the mechanics and operations of the LX200/LX400 series of telescopes. Both are credited elsewhere, but must be thanked here for their valuable contributions. John Watson and Maury Solomon of Springer have been instrumental in helping me to get this book suitably prepared for publication. Their patience with my endless queries has lasted a long time and I am very grateful. My better half, Marion has read this book as a nonastronomer to check that I have not been throwing astronomical acronyms around too excessively. Apart from that, never have we drunk so much tea and coffee each day as during the final run toward chapter submission. The book would not h
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