Meade LX80 Optional Accessories, Series 5000 Ultra Wide Angle, Series 5000 HD-60

Optional Accessories

Optional Accessories

A wide assortment of professional Meade accessories is available for the LX80 telescope models. The premium quality of these accessories is well-suited to the quality of the instrument itself. To find out more information about these and other exciting Meade accessories visit Meade’s website at www.meade.com.

Additional LX80 Counterweights: Designed to precisely fit the counterweight shaft. These 11-pound weights are constructed from solid steel.

Series 5000 Ultra Wide Angle

Meade Series 5000 Premium Eyepieces: deliver all the amazing performance that the ACF, SC and APO optical systems can provide with Fully-Multi Coated optics, wide fields and razor sharp images all the way to the edge:

•Ultra Wide Angle: Ultra Premium Series 5000 Eyepiece have an extremely large 82 degree Apparent Field of View, 6 & 7 element Super Fully-Multi-Coated lenses with blackened edges, rotating adjustable eyecups. Focal lengths from 5.5mm 1.25” to huge- field-of-view 30mm 2”.

•Xtreme Wide Angle: Xtreme Wide Angle Series 5000 Eyepieces use 9 optical elements to achieve a high contrast image with razor sharp correction all the way to the edge of the huge 100 degree Apparent Field of View. The lenses are Super Fully Multi-Coated with blackened edges in 2” diameter format. Three focal lengths, 9mm, 14mm and 20mm are all parfocal.

Series 5000 HD-60

•HD-60:The All New Series 5000 HD-60 Eyepieces have a large 60 degree Apparent Field of View that is flat and sharp to the edge, 17mm or more of eye relief for easy comfortable observing, Super Fully- Multi-Coated lenses with blackened edges, rotating

adjustable eyecups. Focal lengths from 4.5mm to 25mm.

Series 5000 Auxiliary Equipment Mounting System (Designed for Meade’s SC and ACF Optical System): All plates, rings and bases are precision milled from 6061-T6 Aircraft Grade aluminum, all joining surfaces are either precision chamfered or filleted to eliminate sharp corners and edges. Aluminum components are then carefully anodized black, and include stainless steel mounting hardware. Rings use three-point mounting with machined adjustment screws and include white colored Delrin® tips to prevent damage to scope finish. Bases for rings and counterweights include large lock knobs for easy adjustment.

#62 T-Adapter:The T-Adapter is the basic means of prime-focus photography through all Meade Schmidt- Cassegrain and Advanced Coma-Free models. Thread the T-Adapter on to the rear cell of your telescope, followed by a T-Mount for your 35mm camera, and the camera body is rigidly coupled to the telescope.

#777 Off-Axis Guider: The Off-Axis Guider provides a means during long-exposure astrophotography for the photographer to monitor the tracking of the telescope to assure that the telescope remains precisely positioned on the object being photographed. Like the T-Adapter, the Off-Axis Guider couples the camera body to the telescope but it also causes a small amount of the guidestar’s incoming light to be diverted at a right angle,

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