ETX-LS First Light

[Navarre]

Had a couple of hours tonight on the new ETX-LS and was very impressed. It did the full auto align, set GPS location and time, levelled, found north, then found 2 alignment star and was ready for the guided tours. It took 5-6 minutes fr the set up but was pretty accurate.

I used it outisde of the house and was pretty impressed, had a good view of Saturn, Jupiter and the moon, very clear images right to the edges.

I will try the camera over the next week or so but so far so good.

Navarre

[coldspace]

Good to here they work as advertised and welcome to IIS. The ACF optics are very sharp.
This will get more people into Astronomy.
My original ETX 125 many years ago paved the way for me to get very serious and advanced in Astronomy now and this scope has been used 100's times and now my young daughter uses it with her friends and it still goes.

Have fun with the new scope.

Regards Matt.

[Omaroo]

Great stuff Navarre. I'm interested to see what one of these might be like for public sky tours and video on our club event nights. Hmm...

[renormalised]

Glad to see that the new scopes work as advertised. Welcome to IIS:D

Keep us appraised of how it goes in the future:thumbsup::D

[Nightskystargaz]

I thought the LS was suppose to be out in fall, at least that's what I was told.

The LS was not listed in Meade stock 10-K report.

:thanks:

Tom

[picklesrules]

awesome as man, hope to see some photos real soon.
Welcome To IIS :)
Nick

[Navarre]

Hi Tom

The ETX=LS came out in the US on June 16th (I think). It is not available in Australia yet but I managed to get one imported, even though I don't think Meade like that!

Thanks Navarre

[mozzie]

great to here some reports on them,they seem to to as advertised. meade were giving 4 of them away in there 4m forum competition damn i musnt have won one keep up the reports theres a few of us interested in there capabilities
mozzie

[White Rabbit]

Nice to hear hear a report on these. I have the ETX125 pe version an the optics are great. I hope they havent went with the plastic gears on this version though.

BTW bintel have them in the shop right now I was looking at one on Friday. Nice scope.

[h45e]

Sorry to bring up a old topic, but how are the pics from this model?

[Nightskystargaz]

Dave,

I'm glad it works as advertise :).

I have ETX-125 .

:thanx:,

Tom

[White Rabbit]

I was looking at an add for these the other day and they have went with brass cogs and a copper worm.

Nice.

[AndrewJ]

They appear to have aluminium wormwheels and brass worms
Looks very similar to the LX90s drives
but they appear to be using a better gearhead motor.
Looks good and simple. Should be accurate.

Andrew

[White Rabbit]

thanks for the correction, I was going off memory, I should have known better ;)