After many years of looking I've recently purchased a new OTA - a Meade LXD55 SN10. It arrived today in excellent condition thanks to the original owner (Andrew) and Pack and Send.
I've got it set up in a temporary fashion on my EQ6 and hope to give it a run tomorrow night if the weather behaves however things won't really swing into action until I can change out the focuser (replacement on its way from Moonlite).
I'm really impressed with the build quality of this OTA - seamless tube and nice thick white paint coating. The optics appear to be in very good condition and eyeballing the collimation seems to be pretty good too.
Great to have a new project and looking forward to giving this a try at Astrofest in a few months time.
Pictures to follow....
