Meade LXD-75 Refracting Telescope

Most star observing enthusiasts will go on forever looking at the moon and the planets without hint of boredom, yet their astronomical pursuit is hampered by the exorbitant price of a decent refracting telescope.

If you are one of them – who love to gaze at Venus, Mars or other major planetary bodies – you need not spend so much just to do this. You can go for the Meade telescopes, which can only provide you the best refracting telescope that suits your astronomical needs.

With a Meade telescope, you can have excellent views of the planets of our solar system (except perhaps of Pluto). An excellent model is the Meade LXD 75, which can provide you with vivid observation of Jupiter and its cloud belts as well as the Saturn and its colorful rings.

The Meade LXD 75 can also make you marvel at the four moons of Jupiter, but with the help of required optical accessories. What’s amazing about this Meade telescope is that it allows you to see the clear details of the moon. It’s more like seeing the mountains, seas and craters of the moon – in 3D. Not only that, such telescope helps you research on faraway heavenly bodies such as the nebulae and star clusters. Of course, you will not be denied the chance to observe various mysterious galaxies.

Meade 114EQ-AST: Simple yet Quality Reflecting Telescope

Meade telescopes, especially the reflectors, are the best when it comes to compactness and portability, and is very user-friendly especially to the novice in star-gazing and astronomy hobbyist.

Meade 114EQ-AST Reflecting Telescope for example is a quality optical device yet simple for first timers. Still, it can be considered an advanced gadget that will competently help you in your years of star gazing and observing. In fact, this type of Meade telescope is recommended for use by all stargazing enthusiasts, beginner and veteran astronomers alike.

The Earth performs a full rotation every 24 hours on its own axis rotates once on its axis, and because of this space objects rapidly move thru the telescope field especially during high powers. Object tracking is therefore necessary, and the Meade 114EQ-AST’s equatorial mount facilitates such tracking by the manual turn on the control cables.

This Meade telescope model has a big 114 millimeter diameter mirror, gathering more light (around 360 percent) than the 60 millimeter telescopes. And because of this, with the Meade 114EQ-AST, the much farther space objects are much clearer and in great detail.

Meade etx 60 Digital Telescope

The Meade Telescope company is one of the most trusted when it comes to quality astronomical and refracting telescopes. Together with the Celestron Telescope, this company has established itself as the world’s best producers of astronomical and optical gadgets and devices.

Another type of product that the Meade expertly manufactures is the digital telescope – and one of the more popular brands is the Meade etx 60 if only because it is considered a perfect astronomical optical device for beginners and hobbyists.

The Meade ETX 60 has a 9mm eyepiece and an Autostar, which has the control of the scope’s computer. On the other hand, the optics has the design of a refracting telescope, and has a 350 millimeter focal length.

The Meade ext-60 also boasts of achromatic assembly for its refracting optic tube and internal flip mirrors which helps the users in observing straight up or 90 degree point of observation.

As a beginner digital telescope, this optical gadget has so much to offer. Other features include fork-mounted electric control to be used for slow motion and double axis locking mechanism feature.

Spitzer Space Telescope: Infrared Observatory

Spitzer Space Telescope – also known as Space Infrared Telescope or SIRTF is actually a space infrared observatory. It is recognized as the final (fourth) Great Observatory of NASA.

The planned duration of the nominal mission was 2 and half years, while its pre-launch expectation is that the mission might have an extension of at least 5 or up to the time when the supply of liquid helium was exhausted. This is projected to happen in April of 2009.

In observance of NASA traditions, the telescope was eventually renamed after a successful space operation on 18th December 2003. And unlike most other astronomical telescopes which are given the names of deceased astronomers and space scientists, Space Infrared Telescope’s new name was derived from a contest that was conducted primarily for the general public.

Spitzer Space Telescope’s name was obtained after that of Lyman Spitzer, the first doctor and scientist who suggested putting astronomy telescopes into outer space.