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Old 11-11-2009, 11:54 AM
Wavytone
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Think he's referring to this:
http://www.meade.de/en/products/astr...ash=a629017a92

The parent page is
http://www.meade.de/en/products/astro-specials.html

It has come up before on IIS and IMHO its pure snake-oil, and very expensive snake-oil at that. Take a look at the Vixen version; 300 euros for a metal cylinder...

There's no way it can correct for mount mis-alignment on the pole, non-perpendicular axes in the mount, refraction or periodic errors etc without some form of feedback, either by optical measurements during setup, encoders or a CCD.

Most likely all it really consists of is a simple dual-axis motor drive corrector for two steppers.

And lastly it does not look like a Meade product, externally.
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