The New Meade ETX LS - Completely Automated Telescope System

Telescope House are pleased to announce the Meade ETX LS with it's groundbreaking technology. Building on the popularity of Meade’s ETX series telescopes, the new ETXLS’ innovative LightSwitch™ Technology alignment system eliminates the frustration experienced by users when aligning traditional telescopes, as it automatically aligns itself, at the flip of a switch, for optimum night sky viewing.

Engineered with a built-in Integrated Sensor Module (ISM) which includes GPS and Level North Technology (LNT™) sensors and the ECLIPS™ CCD Camera, the patented LightSwitch Technology alignment system replaces the “human eye” for the only hands-free alignment available in any consumer telescope. Upon activation, the scope’s electronic sensors calculate the current time, date and location for the telescope and then verify the locations of two stars to build a ‘real time’ map of the night sky.

The telescope is now aligned and ready to use without any input from the user. Equipped with an easy-to-use interface and a sensitive, wide-angle digital imager for taking vibrant, highresolution, low-noise images of objects in the night sky, users are able to store images on the SD card or view them immediately by using the scope’s video output function. With the built-in speaker and video-out jack, the Astronomer-Inside™ guides the user to the best objects in the sky and delivers a celestial encyclopedia of audio and video content that takes the user on an interactive guided tour of hundreds of night sky objects.

Telescope House can confirm the new ETX LS is built with Meade’s patented Advanced Coma-Free (ACF) Optics, the ETX-LS delivers the same sharp, flat, coma-free field of view found in professional Ritchey-Chrétien telescopes, but without the price tag.

The ACF technology found in the ETX-LS outperforms the Schmidt-Cassegrain optical system found in many traditional consumer telescopes. Telescope House will be gauranteed stock from the first UK shipment and will show the first unit in Europe at AstroFest in February 2009.