Meade 16″ LX200 GPS Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope, with Super Giant field tripod
If you really want the biggest telescope in your neighborhood then check out this one: Meade 16" LX200GPS-SMT Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescopes are a professional instrumentation for the demanding school, college, or university research program,or as the ultimate personal telescope for the advanced amateur. Continuing the tradition of Meade SMT optics, the Meade 16 " LX200GPS SMT yields the superlative imaging required in advanced applications, whether in planetary or deep-space visual or CCD imaging, in astrophotography, or in photometry. And, with its superclear BK7 optical glass correcting plate, the 16 inch LX200-GPS Schmidt Cassegrain Meade Telescope may be used into the ultraviolet spectral region as well. Adding the Meade Ultra-High Transmission Coatings group increases the telescope’s effective image-brightness aperture over the visible spectrum to more than 17". Oversize one-piece fork mounting: The massive 16" LX 200 GPS SMT fork system, cast in one continuous piece from one Declination housing to the other, includes a total of four 80mm roller bearings in Declination (two in each Declination housing) and two roller bearings in Right Ascension (one each 100mm and 150mm bearings in the RA housing). Such liberal usage of precision roller bearings into the telescope’s design permits the addition of substantial auxiliary equipment without risk of strain on the mechanism and results in the most rigid tracking platform available on a telescope. Large DC-servo-motor-driven 11" worm gears on both telescope axes yield the smooth, precision tracking and slewing required of a professional instrument.
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