This review, “Star power,” appeared in the July 2004 issue of Astronomy magazine. Meade’s 10-inch LX200GPS-SMT with Autostar Suite hurried along something that’s been a long time coming in my life: ...

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 ...

Galileo Galilei didn’t invent the telescope. That honor (or at least the first patent application, in 1608) belongs to Hans Lippershey, a German/Dutch optician. The stars weren’t on Lippershey’s mind.

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 ...