User Manual for Meade LX600-ACF 16" f 8 Cassegrain GoTo Telescope with StarLock Click to enlarge the picture
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- Product category: Catadioptrics (Cassegrains) Meade
- Brand: Meade
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Product description Representing the largest aperture in the series, the LX600-ACF 16" f/8 Cassegrain GoTo Telescope from Meade Instruments is a technologically advanced research-grade Cassegrain telescope on a heavy-duty motorized and computer-controlled dual-tine fork mount. Its innovative optical design, combined with Meade's Ultra-High Transmission Coatings (UHTC) and Advanced Coma-Free (ACF) optical system, ensures that images are bright and clear, with high contrast, superb resolution, and faithful color reproduction. The ACF system uses specially engineered corrector plates and mirrors that complement each other to improve the scope's resolution and its ability to split binary stars and allow you to observe fine details otherwise missed by other scopes of the same size. This version of the 16" LX600-ACF is offered here with the mount and optical tube assembly (OTA), but without a tripod for those who have a reliable and stable support system, pier, or other custom system.Multiple technologies work together to put this mounting system above the standard GoTo mount. Meade outfitted it with a built-in GPS receiver and time chip, so the mount can automatically determine its location, date, and time when turned on. This information is sent to the StarLock system, which uses two digital cameras built into an 80mm f/5 refractor OTA that is piggybacked onto the main LX600 optical tube. The cameras take wide-field photos of the night sky and compare them to an internal database to automatically align the scope. During long observation or exposure imaging sessions, the StarLock system continuously checks its orientation and tracking and adjusts as needed, sending the data to the Smart Mount and Smart Drive systems. The system learns the intrinsic tracking errors, adjusts itself automatically, and remembers the adjustments to continuously improve tracking accuracy over time.The brain of the mount is Meade's iconic AutoStar II computer controller. This handheld unit has an internal database of over 145,000 objects from the Moon and planets, to galaxies, nebulae, and constellations. Coupled with the StarLock system, the AutoStar's tracking accuracy is an impressive ±1 arcsec. It can calculate future events like sunrises and meteor showers, and predict solar and lunar eclipses for the next 100 years. Once set up and running, the AutoStar II can take you on guided tours of the best objects visible above, including a detailed tour of the lunar surface with points of interest such as Apollo landing sites, craters, mountains, and mare. - Optical Tube
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- Large 16" aperture
- f/8 focal ratio
- 3251mm focal length
- Schmidt-Cassegrain optical path configuration
- Advanced Coma-Free system
- Ultra-High Transmission Coatings (UHTC) system
- Resolution: 0.285 arcsec, Dawes' Limit
- Internal 7:1 reduction ratio/dual speed Crayford-style focuser with a toothless friction system provides precision focusing without backlash or image shift
- Standard Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope (SCT) visual back threads accept a wide variety of optional observation or imaging accessories, such as the included 2" 90° diagonal
- Optical Technologies
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- Ultra-High Transmission Coatings (UHTC):
- All corrector plate and mirror surfaces are fully multi-coated
- Engineered to optimize visual, photographic, and CCD imaging
- Improves light transmission through optical path across the entire visible spectrum
- Corrector coatings: Multiple layers of aluminum oxide (Al2O3), titanium dioxide (TiO2), and magnesium fluoride (MgF2)
- Mirror coatings: Aluminum with multi-layer coatings of titanium dioxide (TiO2) and silicon dioxide (SiO2)
- Advanced Coma-Free System:
- Reduces off-axis comas
- Aplanatic design produces flat, distortion-free images across the field of view, especially at the edges, with reduced astigmatism for sharper images; eliminates diffraction spikes for better resolution
- Advanced Technologies
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- StarLock System:
- Dual digital cameras built into an 80mm f/5 refractor telescope
- Integrated alignment and guiding system
- Uses GPS and time chip to determine date, time, and location
- Takes a picture of the night sky and compares it to internal database and determines alignment
- Takes multiple pictures and aligns to multiple stars to improve accuracy
- During long observation or astrophotography sessions, continuously checks tracking and alignment and automatically corrects tracking errors
- Smart Mount:
- Improves the pointing accuracy of the computer controller
- Enables the AutoStar II to automatically identify and correct systematic pointing errors
- SmartDrive:
- Works with AutoStar to improve drive accuracy for better tracking and slewing over time
- Mounting
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- Motorized alt-az
- Heavy-duty double-tine fork configuration
- Dual-axis fine manual adjustment controls when not using motors
- 11" main gears allow for smooth movement and high precision
- Internal GPS receiver and time chip automatically obtain position, day, date, and time, requiring no user input during setup
- Runs on eight user-supplied C-cell batteries, or optional 12 VDC power supply
- Requires heavy-duty tripod, pier, or other custom mounting solution for proper use
- AutoStar II Computer Controller
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- Full GoTo capabilities
- Intuitive menu-driven interface
- Multiple alignment procedures: Automatic, Easy, One-star, Two-star
- 145,000-object database
- Identify mode provides information on objects near the viewing target
- Guided tours based on current date and time
- Calculate future dates and times for events like sunrises and sunsets, moonrises/moonsets/Moon phases, solar and lunar eclipses for the next 100 years, meteor showers, equinoxes and solstices
- Tracking accuracy: ±1 arcsec
- Periodic Error Correction (PEC) and Permanent Periodic Error Correction (PPEC) train out tracking errors for more precision
- Anti-backlash compensation trains out play in gear to improve tracking and slewing accuracy
- Multiple slew speeds: 1x, 2x, 8x, 16x, 64x, 128x (sidereal), 1.5°/sec, 3°/sec, 8°/sec
- Tracking Rates: Sidereal, Lunar, Solar, Custom—select from 2000 incremental rates
- Database details:
- Solar system: Eight planets, Sun, asteroids and comets, Moon (overview, landing sites, mountains, lakes, valleys)
- Asteroids and comets
- Constellations: All 88 Northern and Southern Hemisphere constellations
- Deep sky including nebulae, star clusters, galaxies, quasars, planetary nebulae, popular named objects
- Stars including named, double, variable stars; Hipparcos, SAO, HD, and HR catalogs
- Satellites: Including the International Space Station (ISS), Hubble Space Telescope, Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites, and geosynchronous orbit satellites
- User-defined objects, astronomical and land based
- Physical properties:
- 20 alpha-numeric keys
- Two-line display with red backlight
- Red backlit control buttons
- Built-in speaker
- Utility light
- Included Accessories
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- Eyepiece:
- 26mm Series 4000 Super Plössl eyepiece
- Produces 125x magnification
- 52° apparent angle of view
- 18mm eye relief
- Fold-down rubber eyecup
- Fully multi-coated to improve light transmission, color fidelity, and contrast
- Textured rubber grip provides secure handling
- Diagonal:
- Standard SCT threads for secure direct connection to back of OTA
- 2"-diameter eyepiece holder, with 1.25" reducer adapter to use smaller eyepieces and accessories
- 90° angle provides a comfortable viewing position especially when OTA is aimed at the zenith
- Star diagonal corrects image vertically
- Dielectric-coated mirror limits light loss and internal diffraction
- Finderscope:
- 8x magnification helps to maintain a wide field of view for easier alignment
- 50mm aperture is able to resolve dimmer objects for more alignment options
- Illuminated crosshair reticle ensures target object is centered properly
In the Box Meade LX600-ACF 16" f/8 Cassegrain GoTo Telescope with StarLock (OTA & Mount Only) AutoStar II Hand Controller StarLock System Fork Mount with Drive Base Series 5000 2" Enhanced Diagonal fvsaaueaztcrdxca Series 4000 26mm Super Plossl Eyepiece (1.25") Limited 1-Year Warranty Table of Contents
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Technical parametersMeade LX600-ACF Specs | Optical Design | Advanced Coma-Free (ACF) Schmidt-Cassegrain | | Aperture | 16.0" / 406.4mm | | Focal Length | 3251mm | | Focal Ratio | f/8 | | Eyepiece Barrel Diameter | 2"
1.25" with included adapter | | Diagonal | 90° star
2" snout and eyepiece holder | | Finderscope | 8 x 50 refractor with crosshair reticle | | Focus System | Internal dual speed Crayford style
7:1 reducer ratio | | Tripod | None | | Mount Type | Double-tine fork | | Input / Output | 1 x 12 VDC input
1 x 12 VDC output
1 x Hand controller input
1 x RS232 computer connection input
1 x StarLock input
1 x Aux input | | Power Requirement | 8 x C-cell batteries
12 VDC 5A Meade Universal Power Supply | | Optical Tube Dimensions | Not specified by manufacturer | | Weight | Not specified by manufacturer |
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