LAS VEGAS -- Need a reason to go camping? Here's a great one. Meade Instruments showed off its new telescope at CES 2009, a 30-pound mean machine makes the night sky come alive. It's astronomy for ...

This review, “Meade’s new 14-inch SCT: an instant classic,” appeared in the March 2005 issue of Astronomy magazine. Twenty-four years ago, Meade entered the Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope market with ...

Even a basic telescope can deliver clear views of celestial regulars like Jupiter and its moons. But for NASA-worthy sights of, say, the Crab Nebula, you need serious gear—and serious coin. Enter the ...

One strikingly clear night, I looked through the eyepiece of the Meade ETX-LS telescope, watched as the four stars of the Orion Trapezium cluster came into resolution, and then listened as the ...