One strikingly clear night, I looked through the eyepiece of the Meade ETX-LS telescope, watched as the four stars of the Orion Trapezium cluster came into resolution, and then listened as the ...

Meade’s 6-inch f/10 ETX-LS is one of the most exciting telescopes to come along in recent years thanks to “LightSwitch” technology, which offers hands-off initialization. The telescope is the first to ...

Some details on Meade’s ETX-LS telescope have snuck out ahead of its early 2009 launch, and it looks like an amateur telescope for the digital age. That’s because it’ll drive itself to locate the ...

I don’t profess to know a lot about telescopes. I know that the Hubble one sits out in space. I know that they make objects that are very far away seem a lot closer than they are. I know that it isn’t ...

Reporting from Las Vegas – The Consumer Electronics Show doesn’t officially start for another 24 hours on eve of Jan. 8, but the press events have begun. CES Unveiled, the so-called “Official Press ...

LAS VEGAS -- Need a reason to go camping? Here's a great one. Meade Instruments showed off its new telescope at CES 2009, a 30-pound mean machine makes the night sky come alive. It's astronomy for ...