Talk:Meade Instruments/Archive 1

Removed redirect to Mead and started new article as Meade is more commonly known as a telescope manufacturer than an alternative spelling of Mead (drink). Garglebutt 23:37, 2005 Jun 9 (UTC)

Televue copies?
After adding the following text I ended up removing it as it is unsubstantiated:

The series 5000 eyepieces are considered by some to be copies of Televue designs with the characteristics of the Plossl, Super Wide Angle, and Ultra Wide Angle eyepieces being near identical to the equivalent Televue Radian, Panoptic, and Nagler eyepieces with only minor differences in focal length. Garglebutt / (talk) 05:40, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

Cleanups
Re-arranged the page into a more standardized version using format I have used for Celestron and Questar Corporation. Barrowed info box and some of the format from General Motors page. Halfblue 03:26, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Meade logo.gif
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Should we really call the RC Meades "modified Ritchey-Chrétien"?
Should we really call the RC Meades "modified Ritchey-Chrétien"? This is precisely the subject of the lawsuit against Meade. They are marketing telescopes that are architecturally basically Schmidt Cassegrains with a different secondary mirror as "modified Ritchey-Chrétien". It seems to me that by using Meade's marketing definition, the wikipedia community is effectively siding with them in this dispute. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.6.199.251 (talk) 06:32, 17 September 2007 (UTC)