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The easiest way to center a star.
Meade SmartFinder helps novices with one of the early frustrating parts
of astronomy: Centering objects in the nder scope. To the veteran,
this is easy. But to a novice it can feel like looking for stars through a
drinking straw. By contrast, Meade’s unique red dot nder lets you look
at a wide eld of the sky with both eyes open. You simply center the red
dot on the object you want to see. Then look through your telescope’s
eyepiece and it will be there.
SmartFinder
AUTOALIGN WITH SMARTFINDER
Just enter your point of departure to embark on a tour of the universe. Meade introduces what
everyone’s been waiting for: automatic alignment. There’s no time and date to enter. No plodding from
star to star to star. Just enter your city or ZIP Code and AutoAlign automatically aligns your
telescope and nds two ne-tuning stars for you. Center them and you’re ready to tour the universe.
Two stars are easier than three.
Other manufacturers’ three-star alignment methods require you to rst enter your precise time, date and
location (except with GPS scopes) and then choose, move to, and center three bright objects in the night sky.
This means you have to guess at random which objects are bright enough (only a limited number of objects
will work, and in a dark sky everything may look bright to you). You must also decide which objects are far
enough apart and geometrically diverse enough to work. If one of your objects is too faint, or too close to
another star, or in line with your other two objects, your alignment may fail. With Meade’s AutoAlign, you
simply enter your ZIP Code, center two stars AutoStar finds for you, and you’re done. It’s that easy.
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Alignment doesn’t get any easier.
“Inspired by top-secret
wwii bombsight technology,
the red-dot viewfinder makes
hitting targets easy.
– Ken Baun, Former Sr. Vice President,
Meade Engineering
AutoAlign
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with SmartFinder
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