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In a message dated 10/4/01 5:22:40 PM Central Daylight Time,


> For $98.00 it worked perfectly right out
> of the box.
> What impresses me the most about the ETX-60 is it's optical quality, no
> significant color fringing
> on the Moon. My $280.00 60 mm f/9 Japanese guide scope exhibits severe
> color fringing
> on the Moon. Congratulations Meade, you make fine consumer products at
> affordable
> prices.
>
>
>
>
>

Hi:

Same experience here with the little guy--the 60. The goto worked from day
one, and optically the scope, allowing for the limitations of a 60mm aperture
and a relatively fast f/5.8 f/r, is very nice. It was particularly amusing to
see it retrieve object after object from the dark TSP skies this past
spring...M109, M108, M107, M101--all the "hard" Messiers one after the other.

True, the wide field helps with the goto...but still. The other night I
didn't really have the time or the inclination to take one of the big guns
out back. Big, nearly full Moon in the sky, anyway. And the backyard is
severely light-polluted and hemmed in with trees. No problem for the 60.
Leveled the tripod. Pointed it to where I _thought_ Polaris ought to be
(blocked by a tree), set dec to 0 and did a 2 star alignment. Altair and Enif
were the only options through the trees. "Alignment Successful". Bang: M15
dead center. Bang: M2 dead center. Ran in the house for a while. Half an hour
later M2 still near the center of a 10mm Plossl.

The ETX 60 is definitely one of the best values around, and I'm sorry to see
it go. But if Meade gets the 70's price a mite lower than where it is now,
all the better...


Peace,
Rod Mollise,
Author of _Choosing and Using a Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope_
<http://members.aol.com/RMOLLISE/index.html>

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<BR>
<BR>
<BR><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">For $98.00 it worked perfectly right out
<BR>of the box.
<BR>What impresses me the most about the ETX-60 is it's optical quality, no
<BR>significant color fringing
<BR>on the Moon. &nbsp;My $280.00 60 mm f/9 Japanese guide scope exhibits severe
<BR>color fringing
<BR>on the Moon. &nbsp;Congratulations Meade, you make fine consumer products at
<BR>affordable
<BR>prices.
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BR>
<BR>Hi:
<BR>
<BR>Same experience here with the little guy--the 60. The goto worked from day one, and optically the scope, allowing for the limitations of a 60mm aperture and a relatively fast f/5.8 f/r, is very nice. It was particularly amusing to see it retrieve object after object from the dark TSP skies this past spring...M109, M108, M107, M101--all the "hard" Messiers one after the other.
<BR>
<BR>True, the wide field helps with the goto...but still. The other night I didn't really have the time or the inclination to take one of the big guns out back. Big, nearly full Moon in the sky, anyway. And the backyard is severely light-polluted and hemmed in with trees. No problem for the 60. Leveled the tripod. Pointed it to where I _thought_ Polaris ought to be (blocked by a tree), set dec to 0 and did a 2 star alignment. Altair and Enif were the only options through the trees. "Alignment Successful". Bang: M15 dead center. Bang: M2 dead center. Ran in the house for a while. Half an hour later M2 still near the center of a 10mm Plossl.
<BR>
<BR>The ETX 60 is definitely one of the best values around, and I'm sorry to see it go. But if Meade gets the 70's price a mite lower than where it is now, all the better...
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Peace,
<BR>Rod Mollise,
<BR>Author of _Choosing and Using a Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope_
<BR>&lt;http://members.aol.com/RMOLLISE/index.html&gt;</FONT></HTML>

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