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Meade LX200R Telescope Print E-mail
Stellar Trip

Tour the Milky Way with this in-home Hubble

By Jeff Greenwald
Photograph by Jeff Harris

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Outer space is close enough for a weekend getaway—if your car could go straight up: It officially begins just 60 miles above our heads. For most people, however, astronomy remains a baffling, almost alien pursuit. As the winter constellations take to the sky, Meade brings thousands of celestial wonders like the rings of Saturn—within reach of backyard stargazers with the top-of-its-class ten-inch Meade LX200R.

This handsome, state-of-the-art telescope is equipped with optics that rival the seeing power of space-based observatories. It comes with a razor-sharp 26mm eyepiece, a steady fork mount, and a feature dubbed AutoStar II, which can train the telescope on any celestial object you select from its database of 145,000 stars, planets, and nebulae. Once you’ve homed in on an otherworldly target, the Smart Drive function compensates for any error due to the Earth’s rotation: a must for astrophotography buffs and those of us who actually want to see—and not just crack jokes about—Uranus. $3,699;
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