The ETX-90 was hailed by Sky and Telescope and many others when it first appeared as the dream telescope everyone had been waiting for. It looked really cool. It looked like a new version of the legendary Questar 3.5" Maksutovs which, 50 years after ...
Pros: High Quality, Great Design, Opens Up The Heavens Cons: Can Get Expensive
Meade ETX-90EC
The relative explosion of consumer-oriented telescopes in the past few years has been a boon to the child in all of us who has always wanted to fulfill that dream of traveling to the moon and beyond. Remember back to age 7?...
Pros: GoTo Controller. PC Interface Control. Ability to update controller from PC. Cons: Smallish aperture for deep sky viewing. Can get pricey!
I became intrigued by the telescope world when I recently was looking for an interesting late night hobby. (I don't need much sleep and I figured the sky was an endless source of wonder.)
So I cashed in my American Express points and took one...
Pros: High Quality Optics, Very Portable, Can add "GOTO" capability, Fairly easy to use Cons: Needs Lots of add-ons in order to fulfill it's potential
Ever since I was a kid, I have wondered about the stars. My senior year of college the comet Hale-Bopp appeared and I vowed to get a telescope when I could finally afford a good one, so that the next time a great comet came along I could get a better...
Pros: Affordable, compact Cons: Difficult to set up, Difficult to use.
I've always been intrigued by astronomy and wanted a telescope to explore the solar system. I finally bought an ETX90 with high expectations. The first thing I discovered was it's hard to set up a telescope for accurate orientation to the North Star if...
Pros: Light weight and portability. Cons: Not enough extras included with tripod.
The ETX 90EC telescope is actually a very affordable telescope for those on a budget and brand new to astronomy. It offers excellent optics for the money and is priced in the $500-600 range. It can offer fun for the entire family.
Pros: Small, light, good optics. Cons: shaky mount
The ETX-90EC is a good little telescope for non-critical astronomical viewing. It has diffraction-limited optics, a compact size, light weight and a sophisticated mount with alta-azimuth and equatorial capabilities, and an optional go-to computer ...
Pros: Sharp Optics, Ease of Setup, Accurate Autostar Controller. Ease Of Use. Cons: Straight Thru Finderscope. Slight pause when switching directions.
I find some of the negative reviews par for the intelligence of the reviewers and thier opinions. Experts they are not, for if they were, they would have added that this little scope does just what it is intended to do. After lugging around a LX200 ...
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