Meade Instruments Infinity 70mm Aperture Refracting Telescope: A Portable Astronomy Tool for Stargazers

Cliente Amazon: si que tiene algo de aberración cromática y las lentes tienen un mecanismo de sujeción bastante chapucero... en solo dos usos ya se quedó holgado... por lo demás, es un buen telescopio... quizás demasiado caro relación calidad precio...

Spain on May 25, 2023

RWB: I have 40 years’ experience with telescopes and hope I can help. The 102mm is a great wide field scope and I can recommend this with no hesitation. The scope is portable enough and light weight if using the supplied accessories. The tube and focuser are metal. The tripod included with the 102 was surprisingly good and I have known people to but the scope for the tripod and use other small scopes on the tripod. Because I use much heavier 2 inch accessories I had to but a different portamount II tripod to handle the weight of the two inch equipment. I did put my heavy 30mm eyepiece in the stock tripod and it worked but I know I was using this beyond its capacity and it would not last long using the heavy accessories. In that case a stronger tripod (at the cost of some portability) would be best.

The eyepieces included with the 102mm where another surprise and were very good but not as good as premium (and expressive) eyepieces. There are better eyepieces with better eye relief if you plan to stay with the hobby. While not required I would plan on replacing the high power eyepieces to gain a wider field and better eye relief. Many scopes come with low quality eyepieces to...

United States on Apr 18, 2020

rilletdumans: Pour avoir testé des lunettes et télescopes de différents modèles; une 700mm est à la fois pas trop encombrante et assez bien qualitativement pour l'observation (terrestre essentiellement; oiseaux, animaux,véhicules, paysage...) depuis chez soi ;
le grossissement permis est correct.
le poids est modeste: on peut encore l'installer sur un pied vidéo économique pour la fluidité du pointage en observation terrestre (et planétaire occasionnelle), ou sur une monture astronomique à mouvements fins d'un prix modeste; une az3 par exemple.
on peut mettre le tout sur un dolly à roulettes pour trepied disposant de bloqueurs de roues , et c'est très pratique à déplacer pour faire le ménage, ou pour varier l'angle de vue recherché en fonction des obstacles, fenêtres, etc. de plus, çà rigidifie les pieds en les reliant entre eux( fatigue moins la monture à l'issu d'un déplacement).

a cette longueur, l'instrument, même à l'horizontale, n'excèdera pas trop la largeur de la base du pied. bon équilibre de l'objet dans un intérieur. On peu le laisser à demeure sans trop buter dedans.

Une lunette de 1000mm ou plus commencerai à bien prendre de la...

France on Sep 23, 2019

Elizabeth: I have had my 80mm infinity for a couple of weeks now, and have used it multiple times to watch the moon, the naked eye planets except mercury, the jovian moons, the double double star in Lyra and the great cluster in hercules, observing from light-polluted city skies. I can see Saturn's rings, and on good nights, the basic cloud bands on Jupiter. This is my first telescope, but I'd been observing with binoculars and naked eye for a couple of months.

I love it. Overall, an excellent choice for a beginner, or for a portable scope. The mount is sturdy, easily enough to keep the 80mm steady. I really like the slow motion knobs. It makes keeping planets in the field of view using the 6.3mm and the 2x barlow fairly easy instead of nearly impossible. It comes with three different eyepieces and a 2x barlow, which allows a fairly wide range of magnifications. On the looks side, the blue paintjob is very pretty. The price is amazingly low for what you get. It's also very light, and the optical tube is short enough to fit in carry-on baggage.

There is a threaded hole in the dovetail plate on the telescope that should allow this scope to attach to a photographic tripod, if you...

Canada on Jun 08, 2018

BEM: Für alle die es kurz und bündig wollen: Ein super Instrument - absolute Kaufempfehlung an alle die sich der Natur- bzw. Himmelsbeobachtung verschrieben haben.
Es handelt sich hier um ein Teleskop, welches auch als Spektiv verwendet werden kann, da es das Bild Seitenrichtig darstellt.
Es hat eine Brennweite von 600mm und einen Linsendurchmesser von 102mm. Durch die mitgelieferten Okulare lassen sich verschiedene Vergrößerungen einstellen (gerundet):

26mm = 23fach
9mm = 67fach
6,3mm = 95fach

Mit der ebenfalls mitgelieferten Barlowlinse lassen sich die einzelnen Vergrößerungen verdoppeln.

Das Teleskop ist mit einem Rotpunktsucher ausgestattet, welcher - wenn richtig eingestellt - zu einem unentbehrlichen Helfer wird, wenn das Gerät auf einem Punkt ausgerichtet werden muss. Die Helligkeit des Punktes lässt sich einstellen und ist auch an sonnigen Tagen gut sichtbar.

Das Stativ ist recht stabil - die einzelnen Beine lassen sich unabhängig voneinander ausziehen. Höhe zw. ca. 80cm - 130cm.
Zwischen die Stativbeine kann eine mitgelieferte Platte montiert werden, auf der das Zubehör abgelegt werden kann.

Das Instrument ist...

Germany on May 16, 2017

Pablo: Este es mi quinto telescopio. Compré este por su facilidad de manejo y poco peso y para pasar un buen rato con los amigos, sin tener que sacar el Meade S/C de 8" (202 mm) que pesa más de 45 kg. Este es un buen telescopio para cielo profundo. Gracias a su objetivo (102 mm) y su distancia focal es muy luminoso y permite ver sin dificultad todos los objetos Messier así como muchos objetos NGC. Con su ocular de 26 mm permite una gran campo de visión (al tener pocos aumentos) que hace muy fácil encontrar objetos con la ayuda de un software (Stellarium o SkySafari Plus). Puedes ver en una sola sesión decenas de objetos. Una de sus mayores virtudes es su facilidad de manejo y poco peso. Su montura en azimut te permite ir de un sitio a otro sin dificultad. Su problema es que al tener una distancia focal tan corta (600 mm) las aberraciones no están corregidas como en los telescopios con focal más larga. Esto hace que para planetas y estrellas dobles no sea lo mejor. Se ven, pero mal. La Luna..., para nuevos aficionados está muy bien, para gente más exigente no tiene comparación con el otro telescopio del que hablé anteriormente. La aberración cromática no te permite ver...

Spain on Oct 04, 2016

Errol: The media could not be loaded. Meade Infinity 102mm Refractor Telescope review:
UPDATE June 12, 2016: I've since upgraded and now own this Meade Infinity 102mm Refractor telescope and sold my Meade 90mm Refractor Telescope.
Why Amazon have the reviews all mixed up for the different Meade Infinity series is not nice, especially when I had purchased two different telescope and have to use the same review to either rewrite or add to it is beside me and I think that is not the way it should be.

Anyway I got this Meade 102mm telescope Tuesday 07, June 2016 and it came well packaged, all items intact and am fully satisfied with what I received. It took me less than 10mins to setup and have it ready for use for first light. I also got the Red Dot viewfinder set into the Telescope and did my adjustments, focusing the telescope on an object a few miles away. It took me about 5mins or less to get the Red Dot viewfinder perfectly aligned. I then looked at Saturn to see if the Red Dot viewfinder was perfectly aligned and all was OK.
I then took out my Meade 90mm Telescope to compare the difference in viewing, using on both of them the same eyepieces. I selected the 26mm...

United States on Feb 13, 2016