Meade vs. Celestron Telescopes?
James Asked:
Both of these manufacturers make an 8 inch Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope retailing at about the same price. If anyone has experience with the Celestron Telescope CPC or the Meade LX90, which would you prefer and why?
Thanks!
Reply:
've owned 25 different telescopes over the past 51 years, including four from Celestron Telescopes and three from Meade. On the whole, my experiences with Celestron Telescopes scopes have been consistently more positive than with Meade scopes. As a result, I currently own two Celestron scopes, a NexStar 6SE and a CPC 1100, and no Meade scopes (unless you count my Coronado PST, which was purchased before Meade bought Coronado). I've found Meade's quality control to be very uneven, whereas Celestron's quality has been consistently good.
Are you referring to the C11-SGT? This is one Celestron Telescopes I would strongly recommend you _avoid_. The optics are excellent, same as on my CPC 1100, but it is grossly undermounted on the ASGT Buy Cialis Online Without Prescription mount, which is just adequiate for an 8" SCT, but not anything as big and heavy as an 11" SCT. This tube needs a much heavier mount, such as the Celestron CGE or the Orion Atlas:
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