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How to Buy a Telescope -- Basics, tips, and accessories with suggested reading & articles. Visit

Amateur Telescope Optics -- Presents information on aberrations, obstruction effects, and reflecting, refracting, & catadioptric objectives, and the eyepiece & eye. Visit

FUSE - Continuous Viewing Zone Calculator -- Used to estimate the right ascension & declination of the continuous viewing zone. Visit

Meade Advanced Products Users Group -- The resource website for the LX200, LX90, LX50, LXD55, Starfinder, & ETX telescopes, and Pictor CCD cameras & imaging software. Visit

The Naperville Astronomical Association - Telescope Calculator -- A javaScript-driven calculator, which will compute the values of a number of paramaters for any telescope & eyepiece combinations entered. Visit

Scott's LX200, ATM, & SCT Gadget Page -- Fun stuff, projects, downloads, and links. Visit

AstroDesigns by Ed Stewart -- Accessory designs & information to enhance the SSE of Meade LX200s, Dobsonian reflectors, and other telescopes plus star charts for computerized telescopes. Visit

All About Telescopes -- Information on refracting, reflecting & radio telescopes, details on amateur telescopes, eyepieces, mounts, lenses & software. Visit

The ETX seventy Homepage -- Information for specific support given to users of the Meade ETX seventy Telescope & astrophotography with the LPI/DSI Imagers. Visit

Choosing your Telescope's Magnification -- Selection depends on eyesight, telescope's aperture & optical design, atmospheric conditions, and type & size of the object being viewed. Visit

Observing Tips -- Seven tips on a wide variety of topics. Visit

Celestron C-130 Maksutov Modifications -- Hints & tips on modifications for the Celestron C-130 to improve performance. Visit

FAQ About Collimating a Newtonian Telescope -- Questions on how important the answers are to the performance of the instrument. Visit

Telescope SA - The Cosmos Through your Eyes -- Guides, how to's, and tips. Visit

NexStar Resource Site -- Users guide, observer list, downloads, PC control, firmware, odds & ends, equipment reviews alignment guides, tracking test, and links. Visit

Roger Steer's Astronomy Page -- Telescope techniques & links. Visit

The Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope Web Site -- Basics, observing, tips, photo basics, glossaries, and links. Visit

How-to Articles -- Contains practicals, mounts, eyepiece cases, dew shields, ATM's, star charts, and mini's. Visit

The Telescope Review Web Site -- Beginner's advice & articles, and telescope, eyepiece & accessory reviews. Visit

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