Meade LX90

[MurrayF]

Hi Everyone,

I am new to telescopes and am thinking of purchasing a Meade 8' LX90 ACF.
It looks good and if you beleivre the ads has fantastic optics and features.
Does anyone have any opinion or experience with this scope?
How does it compare to the Celestron Nexstar or CPC series?

Thanks for your advice.

[casstony]

The 8"LX90 is a nice, portable general purpose scope and the goto makes finding things easy. New ones lose quite a lot of their value when you try to sell them on the used market, and Meade has had some recent quality control issues with motors/gears, so I'd recommend you consider finding a good used LX90 or Celestron.

Welcome to IIS Murray:)

[Mark]

Ex-owner of 8" LX90 'classic' here. I agree with Tony. Can't speak for the new models, but the original 'classic' version (non-ACF, non-GPS) had super accurate goto and was an all-round excellent scope.

Mark

[renormalised]

I own one. Optics are fantastic, some of the clearest I've looked through...no coma to speak of. Unlike the Celestron CPC, although they're good scopes too, but not in the same class. NexStars don't even compare. Meade have had some quality control issues, but I've not found any on my scope, personally. Like all goto's, once they've been properly aligned you won't have too much trouble centering any object in the Autostar database...or any other for that matter.

However, I would recommend that you shop around. You may find something else you may like even better.