Category: Balanced Setup On a Budget

Meade LX85 Mount First Impressions

Meade LX85 Mount First Impressions

Katorella Astro

I’d been wanting to upgrade/update my old LXD75 mount for quite some time. The old horse has been tracking great, but I really want to take my imaging to the next level, and I had an opportunity for a package deal with an Meade 80mm triplet refractor that I couldn’t pass up. You can check out the video below, and/or read on for some first impressions.

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Buying Your First Astrophotography Setup? Start Here… kind of

Buying Your First Astrophotography Setup? Start Here… kind of

Katorella Astro

I often wonder if anybody in astronomy forums has had to struggle to figure out how to pay kids’ school fees and the mortgage in the same month, or forgo that pizza order to put gas in the car.

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