Re: [APML] Sort of OT: New Meade Ritchey-Chretien

[Chuck Vaughn <aa6g@aa6g.org>]

Maybe it will be possible to buy just the OTA and use one's existing 
mount, if you have a general purpose type mount?

Chuck

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> For AP, especially for CCD, the Meade SCT issues have not been optical
> quality, but the poor tracking performance of the mount (periodic  
> error
> and "random" jumps.)  As someone who moved from film to CCD in the past
> year, I can vouch for the work and frustration involved in getting 
> decent
> images even with focal reducers with the LX200 (classic) mount.  It 
> can be
> done, but not out of the box, and not without work.  The first 
> questions
> will be regarding the mount quality, I guarentee, and who will blindly
> order something of that expense for AP with the history of poor mounts 
> that
> Meade has?  We'll have to wait and see.
>
> I have a 12" classic LX200, BTW.
>
>
> Steve Holak
> Senior Software Architect
>
> Brokerage Concepts IS Dept.
> 610-491-4879
>
> email:  steve.holak@bcitpa.com

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