Lumicon Giant Easy Guider For Meade

Lumicon Giant Easy-Guider for Meade 10", 12" and 16" Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescopes (specify camera brand). The All-in-One Lumicon Giant Easy-Guider is one of the most powerful astrophoto/visual accessories on the market today, greatly extending the visual and photographic capabilities of your 10", 12" or 16" Meade LX200 Schmidt-Cassegrain telescopes. You don't have to buy the focal reducing lens separately -- it's included!

Competitors force you to buy their guiders and focal reducing lenses separately, costing you more than the price of the All-in-One Lumicon Giant Easy-Guider. The sturdy Giant Easy-Guider incorporates a unique, patented, radial adjustment for off-axis ease of finding bright photographic field guide-stars. The Lumicon Giant Easy-Guider has both radial and rotational adjustments, along with a large off-axis pick-off prism that helps make guide star selection a breeze. Simply thread the provided attachment ring onto your scope, slide the Giant Easy-Guider over the provided attachment ring, and tighten the 3 brass thumbscrews on the guider body -- and you're ready to go. The multi-coated 80mm focal reducing lens yields 100% edge-to-edge field illumination, plus high-contrast, pinpoint star images across a 35mm film frame.

In addition, not only is the Lumicon Giant Easy-Guider a superb off-axis guider, it is also an excellent visual focal reducing lens system. With the 80mm lens in the standard position behind the off-axis prism (on the camera side of the guider), its photographic speed is about f/6.5. The multi-coated lens can also be moved to a position ahead of the prism (on the telescope side of the guider), yielding an approximate f/5 ratio. Exposure durations with the Lumicon Giant Easy-Guider are thus 2 to 4 times shorter, and the visual field-of-view for observing is significantly increased.

The filter compartment is located behind the pick-off prism on the camera side of the Giant Easy-Guider, allowing you to guide with UNFILTERED starlight. Only the camera's starlight is filtered -- a real bonus! All other off-axis guiders on the market have pick-off prisms and focal reducing lenses a fraction the size of the Lumicon Giant Easy-Guider, and they require that the focal reducing lens AND filter be mounted AHEAD of the guider. This greatly dims faint guide stars, making guiding on them all but impossible.