The largest aperture of the GPS line, The NexStar 11GPS Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope, has the most lightgathering power and has a limiting magnitude of nearly 15. The NexStar 11 GPS takes full advantage of its vast database of thousands of NGC and Abell galaxies as well as delivering a new level of detail to all your favorite deep sky objects. With sophisticated software features like Hibernate function, the NexStar can maintain its star alignment night after night without needing to be re-aligned, making it an ideal instrument for a permanent observatory facility.
This telescope has the same specification as the CGE 800 but without Celestron's newest coating system to give the highest optical throughput. Price: £3,699.01 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
The CGE-800 Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope is part of Celestron’s “Top-of-the-Line” German Equatorial mounted astronomical telescopes. The CGE-800 is the most portable of the four models. This telescope is especially at home as a solid platform for long exposure photography with optional CCD cameras or photographic equipment.
Using an f/6.3 Focal Reducer or Fastar accessory makes it usable with a wide variety of CCD cameras. German Equatorial mounts are recognized as being the superior choice for astrophotography because of their rock solid stability, simple balancing and easy accessibility for attaching equipment. This, coupled with the CGE line’s GoTo capability, makes it an unbeatable instrument for its size.
As a visual instrument you can search for all of the Messier Catalog objects, and you can see hundreds of other, less famous, but equally interesting NGC, IC and Caldwell objects. Turn this scope to the planets and see amazing detail on the surface of Jupiter; see Cassini’s Division in the rings of Saturn, and resolve details on the surface of Mars. Even the distant Uranus, Neptune and Pluto are within your reach.
New RCX400! Advanced Ritchey Chrétien optical design. This is Meade's most advanced telescope with precision encoder measured focusing, electronic collimation system, new ultra stable tripod, and much more... The RCX eliminates the secondary mirror holder support vanes (spider) that cause diffraction spikes. Because almost all reflecting telescopes produce diffraction spikes, many people are used to seeing them and don’t consider them an aberration. But in reality, they are a large distortion that reduces image contrast, lowers resolution and presents an unrealistic view of the sky to the eye or the astro-imager. The RCX design reduces the amount of astigmatism that is inherent in the Classical RC design. The RCX, due to the front corrector plate, is a closed tube design. This keeps the primary optical components protected from dust, moisture and other contaminates that might fall on the optical surfaces of the primary and secondary mirrors.
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Our 12" LX200 GPS is now supplied with UHTC coatings as standard and Meade's SMT kit. The image shows the 12" LX200GPS on its optional equatorial wedge.
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This telescope has the same specification as the CGE 925 but without Celestron's newest coating system to give the highest optical throughput. Price: £4,089.00 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
The CGE-925 Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope is part of Celestron’s “Top-of-the-Line” GermanEquatorial mounted astronomical telescopes. The larger CGE-925 is still portable enough to take with you, yet it offers a 33% increase in light gathering power over 8" telescopes. This telescope is especially at home as a solid platform for long exposure photography with optional CCD cameras or photographic equipment.
Using an f/6.3 Focal Reducer makes it usable with a wide variety of CCD cameras. German Equatorial mounts are recognized as being the superior choice for astrophotography because of their rock solid stability, simple balancing and easy accessibility for attaching equipment. This, coupled with the CGE line’s GoTo capability, makes it unbeatable. As a visual instrument you can search for all of the Messier Catalog objects, and you can see hundreds of other, less famous, but equally interesting NGC, IC and Caldwell objects.
Turn this scope to the planets and see amazing detail on the surface of Jupiter; see Cassini’s Division in the rings of Saturn, and resolve details on the surface of Mars. Even the distant Uranus, Neptune and Pluto are within your reach.
This telescope has the same specification as the CGE 1100 but without Celestron's newest coating system to give the highest optical throughput. Price: £4,439.00 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
The CGE-1100 Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope is part of Celestron’s “Top-of-the-Line” German Equatorial mounted astronomical telescopes. With the optical tube assembly of the CGE-1100 weighing only 27.5 lb., this telescope is still portable enough to be taken to dark skies, and it has 89% more light gathering power than an 8” telescope. This telescope is especially at home as a solid platform for long exposure photography with optional CCD cameras or photographic equipment; it is a serious scientific research tool.
Using an f/6.3 Focal Reducer makes it usable with a wide variety of CCD cameras. German Equatorial mounts are recognized as being the superior choice for astrophotography because of their rock solid stability, simple balancing and easy accessibility for attaching equipment. Couple these mechanical features with other performance features like a designated autoguider port, permanent periodic error correction and equatorial alignments, and the CGE 1100 would please any serious amateur or college astronomy program.
As a visual instrument you can search for all of the Messier Catalog, NGC, IC and Caldwell objects. Turn this scope to the planets and see amazing detail on the surface of Jupiter; see Cassini’s Division in the rings of Saturn, and resolve details on the surface of Mars. Even the distant Uranus, Neptune and Pluto are within your reach.
This telescope has the same specification as the CGE 1100 but with Celestron's newest coating system to give the highest optical throughput. Price: £4,669.00 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
Excellent new telescope from Meade. If you plan to create a first-class observatory of your own this is the ideal telescope to base it on. Combining state-of-the-art technology with a massive 14" aperture it will sit very comfortably in a Pulsar 9-foot dome. Supplied with UHTC coatings as standard and Meade's SMT kit.
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