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A NEW ERA IN ASTRONOMICAL IMAGING AND TELESCOPE CONTROL The Autostar Suite with Meade LPI (Lunar Planetary Imager/Autoguider) and Planetarium software turns your Meade telescope,Autostar , and PC into even more powerful and easy-touse astronomical instruments! ® ® This exciting new package includes the following features and more* for only $149: LPI (Lunar Planetary Imager) combines the power of an electronic astronomical imager/autoguider with the simplicity of a web cam. Autostar Suite Software includes powerful tools to help you get the most from your Meade telescope. • Achieve great results the first time out on the Moon, planets, brighter deep-sky objects and terrestrial targets. • Sophisticated planetarium program with over 19 million objects. • Easy to use with real-time display of object on PC screen. Just center, focus and shoot. • Magic Eye software-assisted focusing. • Automatic and manual exposure control from .001 to 15 seconds (up to 450x longer than web cams). • Automatically takes multiple exposures. • Automatically selects best images. • Automatically aligns multiple images and combines them into one superior image. • Works as an autoguider for long-exposure astro images. Planetarium program showing Orion region. • Select objects from the planetarium display and have your telescope automatically slew to those objects. • Control all Autostar functions from your PC. • Talking Telescope software translates Autostar text to synthesized speech through PC speaker. • Automatic point-and-click Autostar tour generation. • Create observing lists and download to Autostar. • Remote telescope control over the internet. Image of Mars made with an LPI connected to a 12" LX200GPS, a composite of 36 images automatically selected and registered by the Autostar Suite software. Control of the telescope was via Autostar Suite remotely over a network connection. • Autostar Updater Tool keeps your Autostar current by downloading the latest Autostar system firmware updates; comet, asteroid and satellite data from the internet. An exclusive Meade feature. • Includes cables to connect your Autostarequipped telescope to your PC. Meade Autostar Suite and LPI (Lunar Planetary Imager/Autoguider): For all Meade telescopes equipped with Autostar II and #497 Autostar Computer Controllers**, complete with Autostar-PC interface cables – $149 Meade LPI imager mounted on LX200GPS telescope. **For use with other Meade telescopes see the Meade web site. *Visit the Meade web site at www.meade.com for complete description of features and detailed specifications. ADVANCED Moon image taken with altazimuth mounted 8" LX90 by first-time user of the LPI imager and software. PRODUCTS DIVISION Meade Instruments Corporation The largest-selling telescopes in the world. ■ A NASDAQ ® company. 6001 Oak Canyon, Irvine, California 92618 ■ (949) 451-1450 1-800-62-MEADE ■ FAX: (949) 451-1460 ■ www.meade.com © 2003