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My first scope was a meade ETX90. It was the original version and not the goto version that you are looking at. Mine just had an equatorial drive that kept what you are looking at in the field of view.
It gave a beautiful clear image but the image of deep sky objects was dim due to it only being a 90mm scope. The views of saturn and jupiter was very good and the scope coped well with reaonable magnification. The highest power eyepiece I used was an 8mm plossl and this gave good views of the planets.
Brighter galaxies were visible as faint fuzzy objects and planetary nebs brighter than about mag 11 were easily seen. Double stars were crisp and I was able to separate quite close stars.
It was not useable for deep sky photography as the drive was not stable enough. I don't know about the current version but I would be surprised if it is.
It is only a small scope but it gives very good views realising the limits of a small scope. It is very portable and much easier to use than an eqivalent sized refractor. I use to put mine on a picnic table on its little tabletop tripod, sit on the picnic table seat and search the sky. A very easily used scope.
Terry
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