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alfingido

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  1. Since moving to France a couple of years ago, telescopes had been mothballed and work renovating our house had kept me away from looking further than the damaged chimney pots and guttering. Anyway, that’s all fine and the telescopes came out again, but not before noticing dust and fungus growing on the mirrors and objectives. ( Meade LX90 ACF and Celestron Evo 6) So, they’re all cleaned up ( pretty simple job once you pluck up the courage) and just waiting for skies to clear. Luckily, we have very dark skies here with incredible views so haven’t missed the scopes too much.
  2. You can buy a 1.25" diagonal which will push straight in the back of the scope, but to be honest, you would be better buying a 2" diagonal, I can recommend one of these. https://www.telescopehouse.com/accessories/diagonals/diagonal-dielectric-99-quartz-lx.html it will screw straight onto the back of your scope and allow you to use 1.25" and 2" eyepieces. The other alternative is to buy the diagonal you mentioned earlier but you will need a 2" to SCT adapter. you also asked about eyepieces. Your 26mm eyepiece will allow you to see the bands on Jupiter, the rings of Saturn and many deep sky objects as well as crisp views of the moon and its craters. Of course, your seeing will be better if your sky is dark, wait till there is no moon to look at deep sky objects. i have an LX90, it's the second one I have had. After selling my first one, I have had a pretty comprehensive list of other scopes including a 12" dob, 9.25 Celestron and 10" Meade LX200, but I have returned to an LX90 ACF because I love the ease of use and views this scope gives me. i would also recommend a few more eyepieces, if you have dark skies, get a good 9mm, otherwise 12mm is about as small as you will need, then maybe 18mm, 32mm and a wide angle 40mm. The 40mm will give you lovely rich wide field views. There are lots of recommendations on makes and styles of eyepieces, I have a set of Meade HD60 eyepieces and a 2" fit super wide angle 40mm Aero eyepiece that gives superb views of big areas of the sky. i buy a lot of my stuff from FLO ( obviously) but I bought all my Meade kit from Telescopehouse. They are very knowledgeable about Meade and I had my scope fine tuned by Steve Collingwood of SC Telescopes. Both in Tonbridge in Kent and Steve is a Meade trained technician and well worth contacting if you need to get your LX90 up to scratch, or maybe just some more specialist advice. stick with your LX90, it's a superb telescope and good luck.
  3. That looks nice. I have the 6" version to go with my LX90 8". First impressions are that the Evo mount seems very well made, goto is very accurate and controlling it with an iPhone is so easy. Maximum slew rate is a little slow, but it gets there. I bought a Skysense camera to fit on mine. Alignment is so easy and again, Goto's are absolutely spot on. I think you will enjoy your Evo. Allan
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