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

["Lane, Jason R" <jason.lane@navy.mil>]

Yeah that line about precision-tuned by some users is interesting.  It tells me that Meade realizes customer tweaking is a fact of life, and is kind of an indicator of customer feedback having gone into this design.  Hopefully they aren't banking too heavily on customer tweaking, tho.  Your other comment sounds like where I work, too. :)

The most interesting picture to me is the close-up of the baffling.  Their baffling designs needed some serious upgrading...I'm glad to see just that improvement from simple anodizing on the baffles to flocking with optical flat black.  The other comment that caught my eye was the hint that it'll be easier to take the corrector out to get to the inside of the scope.

-Jason

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


Interesting shots and commentary. 
The line "The drive systems used in this scope have been precision-tuned
by some users to a degree that is normally only heard of in mounts
costing $10,000.00 and up" would have me a bit twitchy since you would
want a mount that didn't need rebuilding straight out of the factory.
The number of USB ports boggles the mind, almost sounds like three
different teams worked on different parts of the project and wouldn't
share resources (hey, sounds like where I work). And that a high powered
laptop will be required to make full use of the scope and mount
features.  
Some of their mechanical concepts are very interesting, it will be
interesting to see how well it works in cold (read Canadian) weather
conditions.

George Anderson
Montreal Canada

Clear skies and good health

Richard Crisp wrote:
> 
> http://www.optcorp.com/meade/optrcxexclusive.aspx
> 
> OPT visited Meade today. Details above
>
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