Meade ETX-LS Fully Automated Telescope

Meade Instruments are pleased to announce the Meade ETX LS 6" Telescope with it's groundbreaking technology. Building on the popularity of Meade’s ETX series telescopes, the new ETXLS’ innovative LightSwitch™ Technology alignment system eliminates the frustration experienced by users when aligning traditional telescopes, as it automatically aligns itself, at the flip of a switch, for optimum night sky viewing.

Engineered with a built-in Integrated Sensor Module (ISM) which includes GPS and Level North Technology (LNT™) sensors and the ECLIPS™ CCD Camera, the patented LightSwitch Technology alignment system replaces the “human eye” for the only hands-free alignment available in any consumer telescope. Upon activation, the scope’s electronic sensors calculate the current time, date and location for the telescope and then verify the locations of two stars to build a ‘real time’ map of the night sky.

The telescope is now aligned and ready to use without any input from the user. Equipped with an easy-to-use interface and a sensitive, wide-angle digital imager for taking vibrant, highresolution, low-noise images of objects in the night sky, users are able to store images on the SD card or view them immediately by using the scope’s video output function. With the built-in speaker and video-out jack, the Astronomer-Inside™ guides the user to the best objects in the sky and delivers a celestial encyclopedia of audio and video content that takes the user on an interactive guided tour of hundreds of night sky objects.

The new ETX LS is built with Meade’s patented Advanced Coma-Free (ACF) Optics, the ETX-LS delivers the same sharp, flat, coma-free field of view found in professional Ritchey-Chrétien telescopes, but without the price tag.

The ACF technology found in the ETX-LS outperforms the Schmidt-Cassegrain optical system found in many traditional consumer telescopes.

Optical System
• Optical Design Advanced Coma-Free (ACF)
• Primary Mirror Diameter 6" (152mm)
• Primary Mirror Material Pyrex® Glass
• Focal Length, Focal Ratio 1524mm, f/10
• Optical Coatings Ultra-High Transmission Coatings (UHTC™)
• Resolving Power (arc seconds) 0.76
• Limiting Visual Steller Magnitude 14
  
  Mount
• Mount Type Aluminum Single-Arm Fork Altazimuth
• Drives 4.875 inch precision worm-gear
• Power 8 "C" cell batteries or AC adapter
• Battery Life 3 to 5 hours
• Tripod New Adjustable-height Steel Leg Tripod
  
  Electronics
• Controller Hand Box Autostar III
• Processor 400 Megahertz Blackfin
• Memory 256 Megabytes of NAND Flash
• Storage Micro SD Card (user supplied)
• Input/Output USB 2.0
• Speaker Built in Mount
• Connections USB, AutoStar Hand Box, 12v Power In, Electric Focuser, Audio Out, Video Out
  
  Multimedia
• Content Descriptions of the Planets, Moon, Stars, Clusters, Nebulae, Galaxies and More
• Audio Over 4 Hours Featuring the Voice of Sandy Wood From "Star Date"
• Video 30 Minutes of Movies and Annimations Plus Hundreds of Still Images