Name: Meade Instruments Corp.
Address: 27 Hubble, Irvine, CA, 92618-4209, US
Telephone: (949) 451-1450

Why Meade?

Meade Instruments has built its reputation and its products through ground-breaking and industry-leading innovation. You'll find that on every product we make. Meade Instruments is adding technology to all of our products to make them easier and more fun to use. At Meade, we believe in using technology to make astronomy accessible and enjoyable to everyone, regardless of your experience level.

In 2005 Meade introduced their Advanced Coma-Free optical system, the first affordable optics delivering Ritchey-Chretien-like performance. A traditional Ritchey-Chretien (RC) is a type of reflector that delivers a coma-free view via hyperbolic primary and secondary mirrors. Because the mirrors in these telescopes have always been very expensive to make, few amateur astronomers could enjoy them. Suspecting that there was a better way to design this optical system, Meade engineers developed a radical new Advanced Coma-Free design by combining a hyperbolic secondary mirror with a corrector-lens-and-spherical-primary-mirror combination that performs as one hyperbolic element. This ACF design produces a coma-free, flatter field of view that equals traditional RC telescopes at a fraction of the cost. The design also eliminates diffraction spikes and improves astigmatism, both of which are inherent in the traditional RC design. No other optical design delivers both the level of performance and affordability as ACF.

In 2009 Meade introduced their LightSwitch Technology, the first one-touch, fully-automatic alignment system. Meade's revolutionary LS LightSwitch series of telescopes use advanced technologies like GPS, LNT and ECLIPS CCD imaging to do what no other consumer telescopes have done before: take all the hassle out of using a telescope. Simply flip the switch and the LS automatically aligns itself without any input from the user. Quite simply, it is the most sophisticated, easiest to use telescope ever produced.

In 2012, Meade celebrated its fortieth anniversary. Few telescope manufactures can claim such longevity. And now, as Meade embarks on its fifth decade of providing advanced technology coupled with affordability, we've introduced two new platforms encompassing another list of firsts the LX850 and LX600 with StarLock.

The LX850 with Starlock is the latest in a long line of advanced astronomical products. Using revolutionary new technology, every aspect of this system has been designed to deliver the new standard in astrophotographic and visual performance. StarLock - the heart of the LX850 - makes target acquisition on your imaging sensor and accurate guiding during exposures completely automatic. With Meade's exclusive LightSwitch technology at its core, StarLock uses a 80mm f/5 optic and a super wide-angle lens in a two camera system that automatically finds your target in ultra-high precision, immediately captures a field star as dim as 11th magnitude and then guides to an incredible accuracy of one arc second. StarLock achieves this amazing accuracy because, unlike add-on guiders, StarLock is integrated into the telescope control system and communicates directly with the motor controllers in real time with a maximum precision of 0.01 arc-seconds.

Today, Meade Instruments is still commonly acknowledged as one of the most innovative and dynamic companies in the telescope market. You will find equipment built by Meade Instruments in the top observatories and universities worldwide. Meade Instruments products are offered by large network of online retailers, photographic, electronic and specialty retailers.

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