One strikingly clear night, I looked through the eyepiece of the Meade ETX-LS telescope, watched as the four stars of the Orion Trapezium cluster came into resolution, and then listened as the ...

I don’t profess to know a lot about telescopes. I know that the Hubble one sits out in space. I know that they make objects that are very far away seem a lot closer than they are. I know that it isn’t ...

Some details on Meade’s ETX-LS telescope have snuck out ahead of its early 2009 launch, and it looks like an amateur telescope for the digital age. That’s because it’ll drive itself to locate the ...

Meade’s 6-inch f/10 ETX-LS is one of the most exciting telescopes to come along in recent years thanks to “LightSwitch” technology, which offers hands-off initialization. The telescope is the first to ...