Meade Telescopes Instruction Manual page 19

16" Deluxe Model
OTA
Truss tubes
Secondary Mirror Support
Mirror
Focal length
Focal ratio
Resolving Power
Limiting visual magnitude
Focuser
Mount
Eyepiece tray
Counterweight
Eyepiece
Dust Cover
Finder
Computer Software
Assembled OTA weight
Assembled Mount weight
Total Assembled telescope wt. 128 lbs.
Looking at or near the Sun will cause irreversable damage to your eye. Do not point
this telescope at or near the Sun. Do not look through the telescope as it is moving.
Open truss design. Upper cage metal tube
containing spider and secondary mirror holder,
focuser with attachment points for truss tubes.
Lower metal tube containing mirror cell, altitude bear-
ings, battery powered fan, with truss tube attachment
castings and captive bolts and knobs.
All 16 inch models have a triangular ground plate.
Silver anodized aluminum with attachment hardware
and captive bolts. Machined aluminum altitude
bearings.
4-vane, steel
16" (406mm)
1829mm (72")
f/4.5
0.45 arc seconds
14.5
10 to 1 dual-speed 2" Crayford style machined
aluminum with 1.25" adapter.
Swivel base with Teflon bearings for azimuth.
For one 2" and three 1.25" eyepieces mounted on
one side of the base.
None
Meade 26mm Super Plössl
To fit over primary mirror inside of lower tube.
Standard red dot
CD-ROM of Autostar Suite Astronomer's Edition
software
74 lbs.
54 lbs.
19