[AZ-Observing] Re: Meade Thrives

I love it -- point at an object that is a minutely faint object, then see
the Hubble image on a 4" video monitor on the mount.

Maybe I am missing the wisdom of this marketing approach.  My grandson may
get more excited about the Hubble image than the one in the eyepiece.

Thanks for making the point.

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On Jul 2, 2009, at 6:39 PM, J.A. (Butch) David wrote:

> I wonder at the wisdom of setting their future success on a  
> telescope that
> is too small to easily see all the objects it can point to.

Well, it wouldn't be the first time. The original 90mm goto ETX  
certainly couldn't see most of the objects in its database, especially  
under typical conditions, but that did okay.

Maybe Meade is counting on their scope slewing to an invisible target  
and then having the owners look at a little picture of it on the screen.



Joe Bergeron

Fellow, International Association of Astronomical Artists

http://www.joebergeron.com




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