Meade Instruments LS 6" ACF- 6" LS LightSwitch Telescope - ACF Optics
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The Meade 6" LS ACF Telescope features patented LightSwitch™ Technology for complete, stress-free user alignment.
The Meade LS-6 ACF telescope Astronomer-Inside™ provides a full audio/visual lesson guide to enhance your experience.
Engineered with a built-in Integrated Sensor Module (ISM) which includes GPS and Level North Technology (LNT™) sensors.
The Meade LS-6 telescope includes the built-in ECLIPS™ CCD Camera, able to capture and display images right at the scope - or store for later use!
Meade - 6" LS-6 ACF Telescope with LightSwitch Technology & Built-in Imager
For a lot of telescope users, aligning the
telescope is always a frustrating experience - even when it is
considered a "Go To". There's always something you have to know... Be
it the perfectly correct time, the date, your latitude or longitude.
How many new users have been stumped by not knowing the names of the
alignment stars? Or not being able to see an alignment star that is
blocked by a tree or a house? All of these little things can add up to
beginning an observing evening in an unpleasant way and that's not what
enjoying astronomy is all about. Now imagine yourself setting up a
very portable telescope called the Meade LS-6. Thanks to its new
LightSwitch™ Technology, you simply turn it on and let it do the work.
Inside a built-in Integrated Sensor Module (ISM) takes over the job and
Global Positioning System (GPS) connects with overhead satellites to
automatically recognize your telescope's position on Earth. Once this
fix takes place, this means your telescope also understands the local
time - without even looking at a watch! As silent as a cat on wheels,
the Level North Technology (LNT™) sensors take over and the Meade LS-6
seeks out two alignment stars and automatically begins charting out a
"real time" night sky map in its memory banks for your own personal time
and location.
But, the Meade LS-6 ACF Telescope doesn't stop there...
It's a marvelous experience to look through a telescope at a distant
object - but nothing can match the experience of knowing things like how
far, how fast, how hot, how high, etc. Thanks to The
Astronomer-Inside™, the Meade 6" f/10 LS-6 delivers like no other
telescope on today's market can. Right at the telescope the user has
the capabilities of a complete audio/visual library at their
fingertips... just waiting to give you a full tour of the night sky.
Thanks to a built-in speaker and video-out jack, the whole family can
share in the fun! Just think of what a great outreach tool the Meade
LS-6 can be...
But don't stop there, either... the Meade LS-6 has even more to offer.
Built
on the foundation of Meade's superb Advanced Coma Free Optics in a size
capable of revealing all the Messier objects and such a huge portion of
the NGC catalog as to keep most observers happy for a lifetime, this
telescope is going to offer outstanding planetary and lunar views at a
professional level. What more could you ask? What's that you say?
Eyes like a CCD camera? Then stop dreaming and take a look at
tomorrow's technology... the built-in ECLIPS™ CCD Camera. Now you can
take vibrant, high-resolution, low-noise images of objects right at the
telescope and view them on the spot using the scope's video output
function. What's more, you can also store them on an MiniSD card for
later modifications - or sharing! Just exactly what does that mean?
Can you imagine sending Grandma an email with a picture of comet you
just viewed? Or how about an image of Saturn? For those who really
like challenges, a built-in CCD camera means you can push the Meade LS-6
beyond its visual limits by taking timed exposures of objects far
fainter than the human eye can see - and revealing them right at the
telescope before your eager eyes!
If this sounds like the telescope for you, then read on....
Meade LS-6 LightSwitch Telescope Features...
- Single arm fork Altitude-Azimuth (Alt-Az) mount provides rigid structure with large precision roller bearings on both axis designed to carry large OTAs.
- Precision worm gear drives with 4.875” main gears in both axis for smooth and accurate tracking and slewing.
- Long fork arm length to allow clearance with the base for most cameras.
- Runs on internal “C” cell batteries for 3-5 hours of portable field operation with hand control holder built into base.
- Off-On LightSwitch and USB and other ports for accessory equipment.
- Heavy-duty stable tripod with quick attachment of the mount
- 6” ACF optical tube assembly (OTA) provides 6" clear aperture with 1524mm focal length for an f/10 system.
- Advanced Coma-Free optical system for performance that only professionals or extreme amateurs have had.
- Standard SC threaded back cell that accepts most existing accessories designed for all Schmidt-Cassegrain models over the last 30 years.
- Integrated Sensor Module (ISM) with GPS and Level North Technologies (LNT).
- Electronically Controlled Locate Identify Position System (ECLIPS) CCD imaging module.
- Multimedia output includes professionally produced audio and video content for hundreds of objects and custom guided tours designed for your location, time and date.
- Multimedia presentations feature the voices of Sandy Woods of “Star Date” astronomy radio program and George Woods, Hollywood actor and the voice on many productions.
- Built-in speaker in drive base and audio out jack for audio instructions and object descriptions.
- Video out for video presentations and images of many objects, instant display of images from the ECLIPS imager and easy on-screen menu navigation.
- AutoStar III hand controller easily control telescope for automatic location of objects, tours and many other features including 100,000 object database.
- ECLIPS CCD Imager is an essential part of the LightSwitch alignment system.
- Sensitive wide-angle color 640x480 CCD imager for taking your own astrophotographs. Save your photos on a MiniSD card (user supplied).
- With a video monitor connected to the video out jack, see real-time images of the objects you see in the eyepiece.
- New electronics provide full USB support for accessories like additional DSI CCD cameras.
- MiniSD card slot for easy software upgrades and storing your astrophotographs.
Meade Product Number: 0610-03-10