Meade professional-quality camera adapters permit a rigid coupling of standard 35mm SLR cameras to reflecting or refracting telescopes.

• The Basic Camera Adapter directly attaches to virtually any 35mm camera with a standard removable lens mount.
• Two Models:
  • For 1.25"  Eyepiece Tube
  • .965" Eyepiece Tube
• The 1.25" barrels are threaded to accept Meade color and nebular filters.

Meade professional-quality Variable-Projection Camera Adapter includes a sliding mechanism, permitting variable projection distances during eyepiece projection photography, avoiding the need to switch to higher power eyepieces when additional projection enlargement is desired.

 Each complete adapter consists of two separable units for either prime focus or eyepiece-projection photography.

The Basic and Variable-Projection Camera Adapters should be used with a T-Mount adapter (ordered separately), appropriate to the brand of 35mm camera used.

During long-exposure astrophotography it is essential that the photographer to

1. Be able to observe when the telescope starts to wander slightly off-target.

2. Be able to make small corrections to the telescope?s position to bring the instrument back precisely on-target.

The Meade Off-Axis Guider solves the first of these requirements; namely, it permits the user to monitor an exposure simultaneously as the photograph is being taken. Drive correctors solve the second requirement.

The Off-Axis Guider couples the camera body to the telescope for prime focus photography. A small part of the light at the edge of the telescopic field is diverted at a 90? angle to the Off-Axis Guider, where it is observed on the crosslines of an illuminated reticle eyepiece to detect any change of position.

The Off-Axis Guider has been used in this way countless times to obtain very high quality long-exposure photographs of deep-space objects.

Mounting: The Off-Axis Guider threads to the rear cell of all Meade LX-Series mirror-lens telescopes, to Model 203SC/ 500, and to other brands of Schmidt-Cassegrain telescopes.

• Use with the appropriate T-Mount adapter (ordered separately), for the camera brand used.

LX-Series mirror-lens telescope or other brand of Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope.

The Meade Variable-Projection Tele-Extender allows for a continuous range of projection magnifications during eyepiece-projection photography with a Meade LX-Series mirror-lens telescope or other brand of Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope. The additional projection range is of particular value in high-resolution lunary and planetary photography.

The Variable-Projection Tele-Extender attaches to the outer-diameter threads of the eyepiece-holder of the telescope, into which is inserted an eyepiece, typically of about 15mm to 32mm focal length.

• Use with the appropriate T-Mount adapter (ordered separately), for the camera brand used.

Used to attach a Meade camera adapter to camera body. Order per 35mm camera body to be used with adapter.