{"id":357,"date":"2011-08-14T08:13:36","date_gmt":"2011-08-14T04:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hakbox.com\/?p=357"},"modified":"2011-08-22T03:44:50","modified_gmt":"2011-08-21T23:44:50","slug":"meade-etx-70-etx-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hakbox.com\/?p=357","title":{"rendered":"Meade ETX-70 &#038; ETX-80"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hakbox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/20110814-123814.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hakbox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/20110814-123814.jpg\" alt=\"20110814-123814.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-full\" \/><\/a>Sometime back in the late 90&#8217;s, I received a great gift: an ETX-70AT 70mm telescope.  I got to use it a few times before it broke. Well, last week (what, I&#8217;ve been busy!) I contacted Meade to have it repaired. They informed me the only option was to trade it in for an ETX-80.  As I&#8217;d like to pick up the hobby again, I went for it. Expect to see some (useless) crappy astro-photography posted soon!  Just continuing the tradition of useless information on this great series of tubes we call the Internet.  <\/p>\n<p>So far, I&#8217;ve picked up quite a few accessories for it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>45 degree erecting prism for day-time viewing<\/li>\n<li>2x Barlow short focus lens<\/li>\n<li>3x Barlow lens<\/li>\n<li>T adapter for Canon XSi DSLR<\/li>\n<li>Step ring\/adapter for telescope<\/li>\n<li>AC adapter for Auto-Star controller<\/li>\n<li>Orion EZ Finder II Site Scope<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Not expecting to see anything spectacular, but should be fun anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Update: apparently this telescope comes with a 3x Barlow and 45 degree erecting prism. Looks like I&#8217;ll be returning a few things I don&#8217;t need. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometime back in the late 90&#8217;s, I received a great gift: an ETX-70AT 70mm telescope. I got to use it a few times before it broke. Well, last week (what, I&#8217;ve been busy!) I contacted Meade to have it repaired. They informed me the only option was to trade it in for an ETX-80. As [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,16],"tags":[43],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-random","tag-etx-80","no-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hakbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hakbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hakbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hakbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hakbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hakbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374,"href":"https:\/\/www.hakbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions\/374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hakbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hakbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hakbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}