![]() The aluminium casting that secures the main tube to the altitude shaft is an inspired piece of design – and functions as well as it looks. Much of the construction is cast aluminium – what plastics there are feel solid and dense to the touch. The whole telescope construction feels solid – nothing moves, wobbles or creaks as you handle it. ![]() The build quality of the Lightswitch impresses immediately. The drive base and tube assembly has a handle cast into the very top of the fork arm – this makes the telescope easy to carry one-handed. The assembled telescope is in two parts – three if you count the removable handset but I recommend leaving this attached and plugged in at all times – the main telescope tube and drive base assembly and the tripod. The telescope was well packaged in a stout inner and outer box, and safely cocooned between two shells of die-cut foam. And I’ve only done this one in a sense of fun because for my own personal purposes I took one of these telescopes home one night to try it out. The only observation I can offer in mitigation is that I don’t normally do “telescope reviews” either when asked or for the promotion of my business interests. I’m closely involved with the sale of these and other Meade telescopes by businesses that I either own or am financially involved with – anything that I say can only be regarded as wholly biased (wouldn’t it be great if UK government ministers could adopt this standard of honesty!). People like me who discovered astronomy in the 1970s were bewildered by the almost magical capabilities of this new instrument – it had so many fantastic features you had little choice but to go out and buy one! Steadily, and sometimes grudgingly, almost everyone with a serious interest in astronomy did just that.Ī point about objectivity: this review has absolutely none. I remember the introduction of the Meade LX200 seventeen years ago (now affectionately called the LX200 Classic). Meade telescopes have been one of the worlds biggest selling and most successful brands and are especially favoured among users who take the hobby of astronomy seriously. The Meade 6″ ETX-LS Lightswitch robotic telescope
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