http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade4504Telescopes/ Support for Meade 4.5" Reflector Scopes Sun, 11 May 2008 19:22:54 GMT autostaretx http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade4504Telescopes/message/10258 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade4504Telescopes/message/10258 Posted today on Mike Weasner's site was this note: http://www.weasner.com/etx/techtips/2008/gears.html about someone's successful search for an alternate Wed, 07 May 2008 12:14:17 GMT bekirwicz http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade4504Telescopes/message/10257 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade4504Telescopes/message/10257 It is not clear what is missing or what you bought at Goodwill. My best guess - On eBay, dealer Telescope Warehouse has the hub for some of the Meade Tue, 06 May 2008 19:58:23 GMT bekirwicz http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade4504Telescopes/message/10255 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade4504Telescopes/message/10255 In the ranking of northern hemisphere stars from brightest to fainter, Polaris is about 50th place. It is within 1 degree of true Celestial North and will be Tue, 06 May 2008 19:49:42 GMT bekirwicz http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade4504Telescopes/message/10254 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade4504Telescopes/message/10254 There is a HUGE DIFFERENCE between magnetic north and true north. Northern California magnetic north is almost NE! Looky here: Tue, 06 May 2008 18:39:45 GMT scott grandstaff http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade4504Telescopes/message/10253 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade4504Telescopes/message/10253 Yeah keep looking I live down in the deep valley of Happy Camp and I can always see it after I step around a certain cedar tree. Try a crappy night, it's Tue, 06 May 2008 18:23:14 GMT Michael Keefe http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade4504Telescopes/message/10252 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade4504Telescopes/message/10252 Frank, I'm not sure where in California you live, however even in San Diego, Polaris is 32 degrees above the horizon. At the Northern border or California Tue, 06 May 2008 17:43:21 GMT FRANK ZALDIVAR http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade4504Telescopes/message/10251 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade4504Telescopes/message/10251 im having problems finding the north star. i know to follow the 2 stars on the big dipper to the north star and the tail end of the small dipper but i just Tue, 06 May 2008 06:12:18 GMT Dr. Jim Menius http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade4504Telescopes/message/10250 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade4504Telescopes/message/10250 Hello everyone, I just wanted to post a note informing ya'll that I am going to be moving tomorrow. While it will be nice to be back out in the country again Tue, 06 May 2008 05:59:33 GMT Ron Delvaux http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade4504Telescopes/message/10249 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade4504Telescopes/message/10249 is missing from my M4501 I just bought. I found it at the local Goodwill Store. $20.00 I called Meade and they have nothing. So if any of you have one or know Sat, 26 Apr 2008 03:21:12 GMT George Cushing http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade4504Telescopes/message/10248 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade4504Telescopes/message/10248 The LXD500 has some collector interest and it's a decent mount. The drives are a problem as they are pretty unique. They are similar to the 4505 DH drives, Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:08:34 GMT Benjamin Waranowitz http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade4504Telescopes/message/10247 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade4504Telescopes/message/10247 What I found on the LXD500 was that it was between the Celestron CG4 and CG5. I found a source for the 2 axis drive for the LXD500 it was about $190. When I Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:25:50 GMT Benjamin Waranowitz http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade4504Telescopes/message/10246 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade4504Telescopes/message/10246 Mike, I wondered about the small motor on my old Polaris mount. The old grease is real stiff, but the small RA motor is geared down and has no trouble driving Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:00:42 GMT kmkeefe http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade4504Telescopes/message/10245 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade4504Telescopes/message/10245 Ben, I'll have to check my settings as I did not get this message sent to my email but rather saw it when I logged on to the yahoo user group. As for the Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:46:57 GMT bekirwicz http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade4504Telescopes/message/10244 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade4504Telescopes/message/10244 Mike, Welcome. This group has been fairly quiet recently. I had bought from the Meade Factory Outlet one of those scopes. I have a Celestron C5 snd some decent Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:09:06 GMT kmkeefe http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade4504Telescopes/message/10243 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade4504Telescopes/message/10243 Hello Everyone, Just thought I would say hello; I just found the group! I live the Raleigh/Durham area of North Carolina. I'm fairly new to Astronomy (since