[AZ-Observing] Re: ETX 60 Telescope

At 09:34 PM 8/29/01 -0700, Joe Goss wrote:
>Last Monday I was at  the Costco Wholesale store at Power Road and
>Southern and found a Meade ETX 60 telescope on sale for $98.00.  The
>sale ends Monday September 2, 2001. The same scope in the Meade catalog
>is priced at $299.00.  I have played with this little puppy for three
>nights and it found it has more features than my LX200 10".  If anyone
>is looking for an inexpensive goto telescope this is the baby.  It comes
>with two 1.25" eye pieces a 25 mm and a 9 mm .  The only thing I don't
>like is you have to enter the date and time after you turn it off.  I
>guess the clock don't run when the switch is off.



Joe (and list):

Is one of its many features the ability to track earth satellitesn, given
two-line orbital elements?  I'd pay a hundred bucks even for a P.O.S. scope
if it could do that.  Thanks.

Tom

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Tom Polakis
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Arizona Sky Pages
http://www.psiaz.com/polakis/
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