George. I'm in Brazil and the Meade 114 EQ-DH not arrives yet (I bought past week in USA). Maybe more 2 or 3 weeks I need to wait (I hope...). I've a picture...
I have just purchased a Meade 4504 telescope and am very excited with it. I am very new to astronomy and telescopes. I would like to know if there are any...
Hi There, Sue maybe? I'm no expert or even highly serious. More of a casual star peeker if you will. But......The eyepieces supplied with the 4500 series are...
First, you definitely want to change the adapter so you can use the 1.25" eyepieces. This will give you many more choices for good eyepieces, as the .965 ones...
The eyepieces I use most in my DS114 are the Owl optics 80 degree series. They come in 30mm 2" , 20mm 2" , 15mm 2" and 16mm and 11mm 1.25". The adapters can be...
In a message dated 12/3/2006 1:22:38 PM Central Standard Time, sueblond2002@... writes: I have just purchased a Meade 4504 telescope and am very excited...
Sue, All I can add to what has been said thus far is that to get the 1.25" adapter simply call the Meade Technical Support Department at 1-800-626-3233, I...
... Alessandro, Hope you're enjoying Spring, first snow here! Yes, that mount is the same has the 4504's and the DH motors will mount on it. You may want to...
... The eyepieces Meade provided are really not worthless, we sell them to people in the shop for $5 a piece. We tell them they are not the best, but they...
... Scott, Everything is realitive. Good and cheap are hard to find in optics. That said astro optics have never been more affordable. When I was a boy in the...
... And no matter what anybody tries to tell you 300X is about the maximum power than ANY earth based scope can usefully operate at without adaptive optics...
George Wow, thanks for the the great answer and advice! I'll definitely check the Barlows you mentioned. I have kind a Rube Goldberg question, would like to...
... Assuming a good spherical figure, then yes, a small spherical mirror can perform as well as a paraboloid. Here are the exact f-ratios for 1/4 wave...
Scott, A rifle scope usually doesn't have enough field of view to perform well as a finder. You want at least 5 degrees field of view, about 5 full moons, to...
Actually I am very interested in this topic. I have always wondered why I can't find a parabolized 4.5". I would love to bring my DS up a notch to maybe 1/6 to...
Coulter Optical makes mirror sets. I haven't personally dealt with them for years, but I once bought a 6" f/8 mirror from them that was first rate. ...
... Scott, I want a Tuthill polar finder! I don't want to pay $150, so I don't have one yet. Roger Tuthill was an iconclastic inventor of things to do with...
Hi, We were recently gifte with a 4504 that has nothing, nothing at all, with it. I've ordered all of it off of ebay and thru people met on here. The only...
I've nearly got the 4504 unit complete! Thanks to the welcoming letter from this groups Moderator I went ahead and ordered the 1.25 eyepiece upgrade, free of...
Dr, Thanks, I checked on Coulter some time ago and was told that the 4.5" primary is spherical and all the other sizes are parabolic. Grinding my own might be...
... I really doubt anyone is grinding large quantities of Newt mirrors except the Chinese. If I were making high end telescopes I'd have the optics made in...
Of all the bad things that can happen to telescope optics, "peed on by mice" has to be the most original! -drl ... the ... yourself. ... Boston ... is...
Eood news and bad news: 1) Good news - Edmund Optics makes 4.25" 1/8th wave paraboloids. They are f/8. Since they are also 1/4th inch smaller, you will have to...
... They ... paraboloidal ... you ... with ... and ... as ... tiny, ... There's a fellow who buys the 4.5 OTAs from the Meade outlet and sells the tubes...
... I've cleaned several SCTs spiders living in them. Spider poo doesn't seem to do any harm. Worst cleaning job was the optics of a SCT from a heavy smoker's...
I have heard that the older 500/NT tubes on the Meade website may have better mirrors (even though they are still spherical) than the DS series of 114mm...
... The older tubes I've seen were Taiwanese and I suppose at one time Meade got them from Japan. The early Taiwanese tubes had very nice all metal focusers,...
