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9 - Three that led the revolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2010

Michael A. Covington
Michael A. Covington
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University of Georgia
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Around 1999 and 2000, when amateur astronomers adopted computerized telescope technology en masse, three telescopes led the revolution. They were the Meade LX200 (on the market since 1992), the Meade ETX-90 EC Autostar (introduced in 1999), and the Celestron NexStar 5 (2000).

The following chapters describe these telescopes in some detail. By now, none of them is still the manufacturer's latest and greatest. Technology is progressing so fast that new models appear almost every month.

But the older telescopes will still work as well as they ever did, and tens of thousands of them will remain in use for many years. The information in the next three chapters will help those who still use classic computerized telescopes, or are thinking of buying them, or simply want to know what they are like.

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How to Use a Computerized Telescope
Practical Amateur Astronomy Volume 1
 , pp. 133
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2002

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