Optional Accessories; Meade Customer Service - Meade LXD 650 Instruction Manual

Note: The backlighting is done by edge lighting a plastic light bar
underneath the Keypad. Four LED's are used and do not give a
perfectly even backlighting of the keys as keys closer to a LED
will be a little brighter than those keys further away.

OPTIONAL ACCESSORIES

An assortment of professional Meade accessories is available to
enhance the performance of the Meade LXD Equatorial Mount
and #1697 Computer Drive System.
#814 Polar Alignment Finder
This borescope device facilitates quick,
precise polar alignment of the telescope. An
internal reticle contains an etched clock-like
scale while a separate Polar Reference
Circle shows the correct position of the North
Star on the Finder's reticle scale at any time
and day of the year.
EPOCH 2000sk Sky Software
Epoch 2000sk is the most powerful, most
realistic sky software ever made available,
allowing users to remotely control their
telescope from a PC. Also, click on any one
of 281,000 database objects displayed on a
starfield to see the object's name, coordinates, magnitude,
object type and description. Other features allow a user to
zoom-in on telescope fields smaller than one arc second, locate
planets to a precision of 0.1 arc seconds, print professional-
quality star charts in either black and white or color and much
more.
EPOCH 2000ip Imaging Software
Epoch 2000ip is an image processing software
that includes virtually every technique available
for the professional-level enhancement of your
CCD images including: advanced image
scaling; enhanced convolution functions;
unsharp masking; image blinking and much more. Available on
3 1/2" disks or CD-ROM, fully compatible with Windows 95.
Illuminated Reticle Eyepieces
Meade Illuminated Reticle Eyepieces are used for precise
centering of stars in the telescope's field of view to aid in the CDS
alignment process. Two optical designs are available: Series
4000 Plössl 9mm or Modified Achromatic 12mm.
focus knob, which may be used for rapid coarse focusing. The
#1207 Electric Focuser plugs directly into the CDS control panel.
#1207 Electric Focuser
Meade Electric Focusers are
uniquely designed to yield
extremely smooth, precise
microfocusing of the image,
without disabling the manual
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Meade CCD Autoguider/Imagers, including:
Pictor 201XT
With the Pictor 201XT in place on your
telescope, tedious photographic guiding
is a thing of the past. Now you can take
long
knowing that the telescope will precisely track the object being
photographed, even during the longest exposures.
Pictor 208XT
The Pictor 208XT CCD Autoguider/
Imager produces fine, high-resolution 8-
bit images of the Moon and planets in
seconds on your computer screen. Two
or three minutes is all that is required to
capture an image of any one of thousands of deep-space
objects.
Pictor 416XT
The Meade Pictor 416XT permits
professional-level imaging capability
for the amateur astronomer.
Pictor 416XT electronic camera is
capable of producing with amateur
telescopes, images of the Moon,
planets, and deep-space objects that match or exceed the
photographic images obtained with many observatory
telescopes.
Pictor 1616XT
The Meade Pictor 1616XT imaging system utilizes one of the
largest microchips currently in commercial production.
1616XT has the same pixel density, ultra low dark current (less
than one electron per 5 seconds) and ultra low readout noise
(less than 15 electrons rms) as the Pictor 416XT, but with four
times the pixel quantity and chip area. This permits professional-
quality imaging of very large sky areas.

MEADE CUSTOMER SERVICE

If you have a question concerning your Meade #1697 Computer
Drive System, call Meade Instruments Customer Service
Department at the phone number listed below.
Service hours are 8:30 AM to 4:00 PM, Pacific Time, Monday
through Friday.
Meade General Catalog
For your free copy of the Meade General Catalog write, call, or
fax Meade Instruments:
Meade Instruments Corporation
6001 Oak Canyon
Irvine, CA 92620-4205
Phone: (949) 451-1450
Fax: (949) 451-1460
exposure astrophotographs,
Pictor 216XT
The Pictor 216XT enables advanced 16
bit imaging and is by far the finest
autoguider/imager ever made available
for its cost.
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