Meade LT-6 ACF Features:
Legendary Meade Optics:
The heart of any telescope is its optics. Meade Instruments offers you the finest optics...period. Their advanced, proprietary processes deliver the highest quality professional grade optics available. The patented Advanced Coma-Free™ (ACF) system, delivers distortion free, sharp-as-a-tack optical resolution from edge to edge. ACF's quality will astound you.
AudioStar Computer Controller.
The AudioStar computer controller with speaker helps you quickly find and Go-To over 30,000 objects in the night sky.
View planets, stars, galaxies, nebulae, comets and more-all at the push of a button. Don't know what you want to view this evening? Then go to the Tonight's Best™ tour in your AudioStar. It automatically selects the best objects in the sky for that particular time and location.
Precision Construction.
A rigid, die-cast aluminium mount solidly supports the optical tube in all sky orientations. Precision 4.875" diameter worm gears in both axes, provides smooth Sidereal tracking of objects in the night sky. The stable, fully adjustable steel tripod delivers all the rigidity required in sensitive field applications.
Specifications:
- Product Number: 0610-04-10
- Clear Aperture: 152mm (6”)
- Optical Design: Advanced Coma-Free
- Focal length: 1524mm
- Focal Ratio: f/10
- Telescope Mounting: Rigid Cast-Aluminum Single-Arm
- Optical Coatings: Ultra-High transmission Coatings
- Resolving power (Dawes Limit): 0.760 arc seconds
- AutoStar Controller: AudioStar
- Object database: 30,000 Objects
- Viewfinder: Red-Dot
- Eyepiece: 26mm Series 4000 Super Plossl
- Diagonal: 1.25” Diagonal Prism
- Pointing Precision: 3-arc min.
- Go-To Pointing Precision: 5-arc min.
- Slew Speeds: RA and Dec:1x, 2x, 8x, 16x, 64x, 128x sidereal and 1.5°/sec., 3°/sec., 6.5°/sec.
- Tripod: LS Tripod
- Batteries: 8x C Cells
- Power: 12V DC, 5 amp power supply (optional)
- Additional Features:
- Electronic Focuser: Optional
- Oversized Primary Mirror: Yes
- AutoStar Planetary Suite: Included
- Materials:
- Primary/Secondary mirror: Low Expansion Borosilicate Glass
- Correcting Plate/Lens: Schott Water-White Glass
- Optical tube: Aluminum
- Weights and dimensions:
- OTA Dimensions: 175x360mm
- Telescope Weight: 12.7Kg
- Tripod Weight: 4.1 Kg
- Tripod Dimensions: 637x 1087mm variable