Astronomy

[trolls' bane]

I looked at the Meade ETX series, and liked them. The ETX 70, which I have, is pretty good, but it's a refractor so everything is backwards. It is also troublesome since you can't take it apart: My best eyepiece fell apart--It was in pieces when I opened the little case when I was packing up my stuff on the last day on the houseboat, very suspicious-- and when I thought I had fixed it, it fell apart while inside the telescope. Part of it got wedged under the mirror flipping mechanism. Still there. It's almost a freak accident how it got stuck.