10" f/10 Meade LX200 SCT, accessories, plus TeleVue 35mm Panoptic (PENDING)

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I’m in the process of downsizing, and as a consequence (alas) I need to sell all my astronomy equipment. My fully “tricked out” Meade LX200 f/10 10” classic GoTo Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope has excellent optics and is in great shape; the electronics and tracking are fully functional.

$1500. Local pickup preferred; I’m willing to meet within ~200 mile radius from Atlanta, GA area. Due to both size and bulk it would be quite expensive to ship it, but we can talk about it!

This scope comes with the following equipment:

  • Meade heavy duty tripod

  • Meade 10” Superwedge equatorial mount (plus mounting hardware, not shown)

  • Hard case for 10” SCT

  • Original touchpad, with “joystick” for easier steering

  • Meade 2" star diagonal (plus Meade 1.25” diagonal, not shown)

  • 26 mm Plössl eyepiece (1.25”)

  • 6.4 mm Meade “Super-Plössl” (1.25”)

  • Celestron 2x Barlow (1.25”)

  • 11 mm illuminated eyepiece (1.25”)

  • Orion collimating eyepiece (1.25”, not shown)

  • Celestron f/6.3 focal length reducer (2” SCT; not shown)

  • Meade 2” #1A Skylight filter, 2 Orion Skyblock filters (2” SCT; not shown)

  • 10” Orion metallic solar filter (not shown)

  • 8X50 Meade finder

  • Telrad 1 x finder and mount

  • Bob's Knobs on secondary mirror (for collimation)

  • Meade electric focuser

  • Underslung counterweight dovetail rail & weights, for balancing scope

  • Meade piggyback bracket for guide scope (not shown)

  • Expanded tripod tray (original tray also included, not shown)

  • Vibration isolation pads for tripod (not shown)

  • Kendrick “Dew Remove” system:

    • Heater controller

    • 10” telescope heater

    • 2” eyepiece heater

    • Telrad heater

  • Meade model 201 CCD / autoguider (not shown)

  • Miscellaneous astrophotography components

    • Off-axis guider backet (not shown)

    • Meade T-adapter (not shown)

    • TeleVue SCT (2” thredded) to T-adapter (not shown)

    • TeleVue eyepiece projection adapter (not shown)

  • 18V AC adapter

  • 12V-18V DC to DC adapter for running using a 12V battery (with inline fuse; not shown)

  • RS232 cable to connect to laptop; USB-to-RS232 adapter (not shown)

  • Original manual

As additional inducement, I include – for no additional charge! - the following enticements:

  • Omegon Astro Observation Chair ($114 value),

  • TeleVue Panoptic 35 mm – the lens I use the most with this scope. Extremely good sharpness across its almost 70° FOV ($390 value).

Payment is PayPal or cash. I hope the next owner gets as much enjoyment from this telescope as I did.