Overall Rating: 10 Weight: 1 (Unreliable Vote) Date: 08/28/2000 08:54:19 pm PST By: Anonymous (xxx.xxx.225.78) Link to this vote: http://www.excelsis.com/1.0/displayvote.php?voteid=38509
Overall Rating: 9 Weight: 1 (Unreliable Vote) Date: 09/22/2000 12:02:24 pm PST By: Anonymous (xxx.xxx.116.27) Link to this vote: http://www.excelsis.com/1.0/displayvote.php?voteid=38510
Overall Rating: No Vote Weight: <none> Date: 01/05/2001 01:53:11 pm PST By: Anonymous (xxx.xxx.14.2) Link to this vote: http://www.excelsis.com/1.0/displayvote.php?voteid=38511
Overall Rating: 9 Weight: 1 (Unreliable Vote) Date: 01/05/2001 01:53:20 pm PST By: Anonymous (xxx.xxx.14.2) Link to this vote: http://www.excelsis.com/1.0/displayvote.php?voteid=38512
Overall Rating: 9 Weight: 1 (Unreliable Vote) Date: 03/09/2001 08:07:40 pm PST By: Anonymous (xxx.xxx.254.206) Link to this vote: http://www.excelsis.com/1.0/displayvote.php?voteid=38514
Overall Rating: 9 Weight: 1 (Unreliable Vote) Date: 05/09/2001 05:27:42 am PST By: Anonymous (xxx.xxx.137.18) Link to this vote: http://www.excelsis.com/1.0/displayvote.php?voteid=38515
Overall Rating: 4 Weight: 1 (Unreliable Vote) Date: 05/30/2001 12:41:12 pm PST By: Anonymous (xxx.xxx.19.246) Link to this vote: http://www.excelsis.com/1.0/displayvote.php?voteid=38516
Overall Rating: 10 Weight: 1 (Unreliable Vote) Date: 06/30/2001 02:45:19 pm PST By: Anonymous (xxx.xxx.230.141) Link to this vote: http://www.excelsis.com/1.0/displayvote.php?voteid=38517
Overall Rating: No Vote Weight: <none> Date: 07/01/2001 04:09:30 am PST By: Anonymous (xxx.xxx.220.244) Link to this vote: http://www.excelsis.com/1.0/displayvote.php?voteid=38518
Overall Rating: No Vote Weight: <none> Date: 07/18/2001 11:14:29 am PST By: Anonymous (xxx.xxx.148.159) Link to this vote: http://www.excelsis.com/1.0/displayvote.php?voteid=38519
Overall Rating: 10 Weight: 3 (Unreliable Vote) Date: 10/28/2001 03:40:17 pm PST By: Anonymous (xxx.xxx.67.194) Link to this vote: http://www.excelsis.com/1.0/displayvote.php?voteid=38520
"200-300x seems to be the sweet spot for Saturn, considering the crappy seeing here in Phoenix as of late. I get a crisp cassini division, surface banding, 3 moons easily, and perhaps some contrast variations in the ring bands themselves using my 8mm and 6.5mm UO Konigs. Saturn's images mimick those seen from the best scopes I have ever sampled, Ie: 12.5" Zambuto equipped Starmaster, Cervallo 8" Mak-Newt, 6" f/9 AP." > I also own this scope, and I have observed Saturn various times pre and post opposition. I do not fully agree with the statement given above. Using high-end 7mm and 5mm orthoscopics (yielding about 200x and 270x, respectively), the ring sytem can be easily separated into crep-ring, surrounding cassini division and Encke-minimum (not-division). At very good seeing (around 9/10) it´s possible to detect spokes within the A and B ring. More than five equatorial and subequatorial belts as well as six moons are also visible under those conditions. Moreover, the scope easily splits doubles down to 0.74", i.e. 14 Ori and gamma CrB (at more than 250x). Finally, limiting magnitude is 14.1 and 15.3 at direct and adverted vision, respectively, as determined by the photmetric cart of the "surrounders of M57" by Brian Skiff, Lowell Observatory. In conclusion, great scope that may compete with 6-inch high-end apochromats, such as FS-152 and TMB152. Regards, Cord cord.naujokat(at)med.uni-heidelberg.de
[snipped by webmaster] >lenses if you seriously expect to get the most out of a Meade ED refractor. And BTW, this scope showed horrendous star images upon delivery, having had its lenses knocked out of position thanks to UPS. I spent the first few weeks feeling quite frustrated and disappointed with the scope. But it turned out like a wild young puppy which just needed to be trained. > >Jeff Quinn >jeff.g.quinn@worldnet.att.net every time you read a review about one of the meade semi-apos you always hear about how they had to change this or that, these scopes should not even be thought of in the same catagory as taks or televue and astro-physics. they are decent performers but the advertising by meade would make you think that you are purchasing a true apo, and that is simply not true. all the meade ed semi-apos are over priced and truly a testament to consistant inconsistant quality control. spend your money on a tak, televue, tmb, or astro-physics. you will be very happy you did.
Overall Rating: 7 Weight: 1 (Unreliable Vote) Date: 11/02/2001 11:35:11 am PST By: Anonymous (xxx.xxx.108.168) Link to this vote: http://www.excelsis.com/1.0/displayvote.php?voteid=38521
Overall Rating: 10 Optics:10 Mount:10 Ease of Use:10 Value:10 Weight: 1 (Unreliable Vote) Date: 01/10/2003 02:57:14 am PST By: Anonymous (xxx.xxx.56.248) Link to this vote: http://www.excelsis.com/1.0/displayvote.php?voteid=176788
Overall Rating: 9 Optics:9 Ease of Use:6 Value:10 Weight: 1 (Unreliable Vote) Date: 03/10/2005 10:17:48 am PST By: Anonymous (xxx.xxx.90.86) Link to this vote: http://www.excelsis.com/1.0/displayvote.php?voteid=425459
Overall Rating: 10 Optics:10 Value:10 Weight: 1 (Unreliable Vote) Date: 05/17/2005 02:34:23 pm PST By: Anonymous (xxx.xxx.232.241) Link to this vote: http://www.excelsis.com/1.0/displayvote.php?voteid=437025
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