Meade, in my opinion, can make well engineered products and that includes the optics. Where they have continually fallen down is the reliability of their electronics as well as their software. They just suck at both having dealt with the chap who programmed the Magellan system back in the bad old days of the lx50, he couldn't get around the fact that there were people in the southern hemisphere that had bought the system.
Autostar was a success but needed others to patch it continually.
The eqmod/eq6 system is a real winner IMO.
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