Their most popular line of telescopes include the LX200 series of "GO-TO" ranging from eight to sixteen inchdiameterSchmidt-Cassegrain telescopes, the modified Ritchey-Chrétien RCX400 series 10 to 16-inch diameter introduced in 2005, as well as smaller Maksutov-Cassegrain telescopes. Others include the RDX "GO-TO" German equatorial mount series, with telescopes ranging from a 6-inch refractor and reflector to an 8 and 10-inch Schmidt-Newtonian, and just recently, the "Light-Bridge" truss-tube Dobsonian telescope using a break-down metal optical tube on a sturdy wooden mount. This new Dobsonian, in eight, ten, and twelve-inch diameters, replaced the older "Starfinder" series that used a traditional "closed" tube design.
Other accessories produced by Meade include the series 5000 eyepieces that are comparable to the construction and performance of Chester, New York-based Televue Opticals "Nagler" (82-degree field of view), "Panoptic" (68-degree field of view), and "Radian" (60-degree field of view) eyepieces.
Cancer patients’ fitness class set “Get Fit While you Sit,” a 30- minute class for cancer patients and their families, will meet every Tuesday morning, beginning Tuesday, April 1, at the Cancer Center, Mitchell. Highway Patrol sets sobriety checks South Dakota Highway Patrol will hold sobriety checkpoints in the month of April in Charles Mix, Jerauld and Lyman counties. Prison witnessing seminar planned STICKNEY — A seminar on witnessing in state prisons and youth penal institutions will be presented in two sessions, 1 to 2:30 p.m. and 3 to 5 p.m., on Saturday, March 29, at United Methodist Church, Stickney. Group to work on long-term care issues in legislative interim YANKTON (AP) — The state Department of Human Services has assembled a working group to study long-term care in South Dakota.
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