CES Under The Radar: Stuff You Missed : Space Photography: Meade Telescope

By Douglas Mechaber and Rachel Rosmarin, published on January 14, 2009 at 2:50 PM
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Meade’s new 6” folded reflector telescope, the ETX- LS (for $1299) auto-calibrates.  There’s a primitive CCD wide angle camera inside that guides the slewing (the rotation around the axis to get a different view), but can be used for simple astrophotography as well. Push one button, walk away for five to ten minutes, and the telescope will pick out three stars, and align itself!  There’s an “astronomer inside.”  Connect it to a TV or monitor and speakers, and you will be guided on a tour of some 500 objects.  The internal controller has stored locations of 100,000 space objects, so it is unlikely you could run out of celestial bodies to explore.  Ultra-high transmission coatings, sputtered onto the lens in a vacuum, are included on the optics.  That means less coma and flare to interrupt your viewing, as well as much longer optic life. The claimed limiting magnitude is 14, with .76 arc second resolution, and the ETX-LS includes 256 MB of onboard memory. You will need 8 C cell batteries, and expect to replace them every 3 – 5 hours, or use what most observers use: a portable battery designed for jump starting cars.   
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swankenstein 01/15/2009 2:48 AM
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I can't see your photo story because of the stupid pos visual studio pop up, thanks

wiyosaya 01/15/2009 7:11 PM
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Sony has one 11.1" OLED????

Sounds like you went to a different show than these guys....

zads 01/15/2009 7:22 PM
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CORRECTION: 800MB/s & 600MB/s,
not 800Mb/s & 600Mb/s..
the latter is entirely mediocre.

JohnMD1022 01/16/2009 2:27 AM
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No hard drives, backup-up drive will hold 50 Gb, on a device certified for 6,000 Gb, and $900?

Why do i think i could build it better and cheaper?

hmmmmmmmmmm ....

ediver 01/17/2009 5:28 AM
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Thanks for the correction, zads. Don't know how I missed that.

ediver 01/17/2009 5:34 AM
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A far as the LG NAS is concerned: there are a few features it has that didn't make it into print. Those include a catalog dredger, so that duplicates of files aren't backed up (not quite data dedupe), the ability to stream virtual media discs to multiple users, and the real time backup. Remember that in a typical RAID 5 or 1 configuration, the total storage will drop somewhat. Existing backup solutions are very expensive (LTO and AIT drives are outta sight) and per GB, the storage costs are similar to BluRay. Also, most backups will be differential or incremental, and in a small work group or small/home office, I would be impressed with someone generating over 50 GB of content per day. So, yes, I do find the price quite attractive, but it is at least 6 months from announced ship date, the price is approximate, and the market will almost certainly change between now and then.

Anonymous 02/13/2009 5:27 AM
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I'm sorry Pioneer but Yamaha has had:

# iPod compatibility via Yamaha Universal Dock
# USB port on front panel to connect a USB memory device or a USB portable audio player
# On-screen display with iPod song title display
# Compressed Music Enhancer to improve compressed music sources

for as long as the current series has been around, sometime in 2008.

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