12 Inch Newtonian Custom Telescope: MEADE-mirror / Astrola-mount with light baffles

FOR SALE: 12 Inch Newtonian Custom MEADE-mirror / Astrola-mount Telescope with light baffles

This astronomical instrument-grade system was professionally assembled and optimized for naked-eye observations, including from urban environments.

Key elements:

• 12 inch MEADE mirror (304 mm x 1524 mm) – 5.0 focal length
• Two-speed focuser and filter wheel
• Very stable Astrola equatorial mount with counter-weights on three-wheeled tripod (to roll in and out of a shed onto a pad)
• Motorized clock drive (120 VAC)
• Mirror cooling fan
• 6 inch setting circles on R.A> and Dec. axes
• Intelliscope object locator – both axes
• FINDER SCOPE: 
  • 80 mm x 400 mm refractor with 32 mm eyepiece on 90 deg diagonal
  • Green-light laser fitted for coarse telescope / sky alignment

• EYEPIECES – 1-1/4 inch:
  • 32 mm Celestron Plossl
  • TMB Optical Planetary
  • Televue Panoptic – 19 mm
  • Televue Radian – 12 mm

• EYEPIECES – 2 inch:
  • Celestron E-Lux – 40 mm
  • MEADE QX Wide Angle – 26 mm

• Filters: Oxygen 3, Lumicon Nebula, Ultra-Block, Hydrogen Beta, 7 Celestron Color Planetary Filters and 1 Nebula filter

• Various spare parts
  

This instrument was assembled and tuned by a professional scientific instrument maker and was used with great success to observe deep sky objects such as Pegasus (NGC 7331)with startling clarity from within the city.