What type of Meade scope is this ??

[spiezzy]

hi to all
I was on my way home today and passed a council throw out and this was sitting on top of the pile I stopped and grabbed it bought it home and I had an old AutoStar from a previous scope plugged it in and turned it on yes it even had good batteries still in it and it worked ran a dummy alignment and it did what it was supposed to do but not sure what model it is any ideas ?
love to find a manual for it
cheers Pete

[peter_4059 (Peter)]

A picture would help

[spiezzy]

oops sorry guys and Pete my bad

[AndrewJ]

Looks like a "DS2000"/"StarNavigator"

Andrew

[spiezzy]

Thanks Andrew thats the one spot on it takes AutoStar 497 which is what I had lying around just gave the objective lens a good clean and it came up perfect with some Bintel cleaning solution have down loaded the manual and now I can work out how to set this baby up I am surprised that someone would throw this out the optics seem quite good
cheers Pete

[Nikolas (Nik)]

Some people will throw out anything! That was a great find!

[uwahl (Ulrich)]

Agree - great find. Can't believe it was just tossed out.

[kittenshark (Cheryl-Ann Tan)]

I got a couple of these (later versions) at the shop that are missing hand controllers as well.

Contemplated dumping them myself as it wasn't economical the buy new hand controllers because they take the new, more expensive AudioStar controllers.

Meade has discontinued this particular line of scopes. They work OK, so far people who bought them are quite happy wit them.

[bojan]

If and whe you are throwing them away, please let me know

Originally Posted by kittenshark

I got a couple of these (later versions) at the shop that are missing hand controllers as well.

Contemplated dumping them myself as it wasn't economical the buy new hand controllers because they take the new, more expensive AudioStar controllers.

Meade has discontinued this particular line of scopes. They work OK, so far people who bought them are quite happy wit them.

PM sent.

[kittenshark (Cheryl-Ann Tan)]

Thanks for the interest. I have the 130mm reflector version as well.