Meade LXD 750, LXD 650 instruction manual Optional Accessories, Meade Customer Service

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Note: The backlighting is done by edge lighting a plastic light bar underneath the Keypad. Four LED’s are used and do not give a perfectly even backlighting of the keys as keys closer to a LED will be a little brighter than those keys further away.

OPTIONAL ACCESSORIES

An assortment of professional Meade accessories is available to enhance the performance of the Meade LXD Equatorial Mount and #1697 Computer Drive System.

#814 Polar Alignment Finder

This borescope device facilitates quick, precise polar alignment of the telescope. An internal reticle contains an etched clock-like scale while a separate Polar Reference Circle shows the correct position of the North Star on the Finder's reticle scale at any time and day of the year.

EPOCH 2000sk Sky Software

Epoch 2000sk is the most powerful, most realistic sky software ever made available, allowing users to remotely control their telescope from a PC. Also, click on any one of 281,000 database objects displayed on a

starfield to see the object's name, coordinates, magnitude, object type and description. Other features allow a user to zoom-in on telescope fields smaller than one arc second, locate planets to a precision of 0.1 arc seconds, print professional- quality star charts in either black and white or color and much more.

EPOCH 2000ip Imaging Software

Epoch 2000ip is an image processing software that includes virtually every technique available for the professional-level enhancement of your CCD images including: advanced image scaling; enhanced convolution functions;

unsharp masking; image blinking and much more. Available on 3 1/2" disks or CD-ROM, fully compatible with Windows 95.

Illuminated Reticle Eyepieces

Meade Illuminated Reticle Eyepieces are used for precise centering of stars in the telescope's field of view to aid in the CDS alignment process. Two optical designs are available: Series 4000 Plössl 9mm or Modified Achromatic 12mm.

#1207 Electric Focuser

Meade Electric Focusers are uniquely designed to yield extremely smooth, precise microfocusing of the image, without disabling the manual

focus knob, which may be used for rapid coarse focusing. The #1207 Electric Focuser plugs directly into the CDS control panel.

Meade CCD Autoguider/Imagers, including:

Pictor 201XT

With the Pictor 201XT in place on your telescope, tedious photographic guiding is a thing of the past. Now you can take long exposure astrophotographs,

knowing that the telescope will precisely track the object being photographed, even during the longest exposures.

Pictor 208XT

The Pictor 208XT CCD Autoguider/ Imager produces fine, high-resolution 8- bit images of the Moon and planets in seconds on your computer screen. Two or three minutes is all that is required to

capture an image of any one of thousands of deep-space objects.

Pictor 216XT

The Pictor 216XT enables advanced 16 bit imaging and is by far the finest autoguider/imager ever made available for its cost.

Pictor 416XT

The Meade Pictor 416XT permits professional-level imaging capability for the amateur astronomer. The Pictor 416XT electronic camera is capable of producing with amateur telescopes, images of the Moon,

planets, and deep-space objects that match or exceed the photographic images obtained with many observatory telescopes.

Pictor 1616XT

The Meade Pictor 1616XT imaging system utilizes one of the largest microchips currently in commercial production. The 1616XT has the same pixel density, ultra low dark current (less than one electron per 5 seconds) and ultra low readout noise (less than 15 electrons rms) as the Pictor 416XT, but with four times the pixel quantity and chip area. This permits professional- quality imaging of very large sky areas.

MEADE CUSTOMER SERVICE

If you have a question concerning your Meade #1697 Computer Drive System, call Meade Instruments Customer Service Department at the phone number listed below. Customer Service hours are 8:30 AM to 4:00 PM, Pacific Time, Monday through Friday.

Meade General Catalog

For your free copy of the Meade General Catalog write, call, or fax Meade Instruments:

Meade Instruments Corporation

6001 Oak Canyon

Irvine, CA 92620-4205

Phone: (949) 451-1450

Fax: (949) 451-1460