14" Meade LX200R OTA and accessories

[Greg Bock]

Hi all,
up for sale is my 14" F10 Meade LX200R, its the flatter field RC design, not the SCT or the later ACF, for $5,200.
I have included some images taken through it with the Optec F7 reducer and ST10XE CCD camera in here too.
As you can see in the astropics attached, the optics are excellent in this scope, no marks on the front corrector or the main mirror.

It comes with:

Meade 2" Star Diagonal which screws directly onto the threaded back plate, and comes with the 2" adaptor for insertion into 2" fittings
Meade Microfocusser,
Mirror Lock,
AstroZap flexible Dew Cap,
8x50 Finderscope
Dovetail mounting plate bottom - connects to the Losmandy G11 mount.
Optec Nextgen 0.7X focal reducer (focal length reduced from 3550mm to 2485mm)
Aluminium accessory top mounting plate on Far-Point stands.

I have the original cardboard boxes for packing it.
Sorry, does not include the G11 mount, nor the two refractors visible in the pic.

This scope was used to discover 3 of my 4 supernovae since November 2011. Apart from one trip to Leyburn and another to Queensland Astrofest once, it has always been housed in my observatory at Windaroo.
The images of M20 (6 minutes of Ha only) and M42 were taken with the Ha, Si, and O3 narrow-band filters.
All this would be over $9,600 new.

[multiweb]

Wow! What a monster. How much total weight on the mount right there? 25(ish)Kg?

[Greg Bock]

Hi Marc,
from memory, the OTA is about 27kgs plus the ST10Xe, the scopes, add say another 8kgs...35 or so. Yes, I know its looks alot, but I still get round stars when autoguiding :)

[Greg Bock]

Oh, and btw, I seem to recall you, or was it H (?) asked for an image of M20 taken with the 14" a while ago, but i was too busy supernova searching at the time. Well, the M20 image in Ha above was part of a group of NB and RGB images that I finally finally put together.

[multiweb]

Yeah the jet is razor sharp. The field is very flat for a SCT as well. Excellent instrument.

[Greg Bock]

Actually, Marc, just to clarify, its the improved and flatter RC design, not the SCT, that's why the field is relatively flat. Thanks for mentioning that, i added some more comments to my original post to clarify that point for the readers!!
Meade redesigned the mirror system after years of the SCT design, and released it based on the RC design and called it the 'R' model, but later had to change the marketing designation from 'R' to 'ACF' for legal reasons.