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Meade ETX-60AT

This is, of course, a refractor (not a Maskutov-Cassegrain (sic)) and it has a rather fast focal ratio (f5.6) so you'll get lots of chromatic aberration on bright objects like Venus or the Moon. As long as you don't mind that, it really seems to do pretty well. You can push it to about 70X (buy another eyepiece) and see pretty good detail on planets (though focusing is difficult at high power) and at low power, it has a nice wide field of view for seeing nebulas and galaxies (in dark skies). Of course it could use more aperture for deep sky viewing.

It's a pretty good scope for beginners, I think (as long as the computer doesn't cause too much laziness) and very good for a more experienced amateur who doesn't know the sky as well as he should (That'd be me.) The Autostar really whets ones appetite for more aperture so as to get a closer look as some of those really faint objects (Uranus, for example) that up till now have seemed just too difficult to bother with.

But, of course, it needs aperture. 60mm is just not enough. The
ETX-70 is a bit better, (I tried one), but my advice is to save your money and buy the ETX-90 or something slightly larger.

Overall Rating: 8
Weight: 1 (Unreliable Vote)
Date: 03/21/2001 09:34:06 am PST
By: Anonymous (xxx.xxx.129.7)
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well i got this a while ago for about $125, but im not really sure how to work it, according to the manual it doesent have to be completely dark to see anything, its fairly dark where i live. so after i do the 2 star algnment, i click an object, such as the moon, and it points at it, but it doesent even look magnified, i mean how am i supposed to look at saturn or jupiter if i can barely see the moon? i dont really blame the telescope becuz im not rlly sure how to use it, so if anyone can answer my question please email me at guitarfreak862@yahoo.com, or repost it here

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