Meade ETX-LS Telescope is building on the popularity of Meade ETX Telescopes and Meade ETX PE Premier Edition Telescopes. The new Meade EXT LS features innovative Meade LightSwitch Technology alignment system that eliminates the frustration experienced by users when aligning traditional telescopes, as it automatically aligns itself, at the flip of a switch, for optimum night sky viewing. Engineered with a built-in Integrated Sensor Module (ISM) which includes GPS and Meade Level North Technology (LNT™) sensors and the ECLIPS CCD Camera, the patented Light Switch Technology alignment system replaces the "human eye" for the only hands-free alignment available in any consumer telescope. Upon activation, the Meade ETX LS Telescope 's electronic sensors calculate the current time, date and location for the telescope and then verify the locations of two stars to build a "real time" map of the night sky. Meade Telescope is now aligned and ready to use without any input from the user!

Equipped with an easy-to-use interface and a sensitive, wide-angle digital imager for taking vibrant, high-resolution, low-noise images of objects in the night sky, users are able to store images on the SD card or view them immediately by using the Meade ETX LS 's video output function. With the built-in speaker and video-out jack, the Astronomer-Inside guides the user to the best objects in the sky and delivers a celestial encyclopedia of audio and video content that takes the user on an interactive guided tour of hundreds of night sky objects.

Built with Meade ACF Advanced Coma-Free Optics, the Meade ETX-LS Telescope delivers the same sharp, flat, coma free field of view found in professional Ritchey-Chretien telescopes, but without the price tag. The ACF technology found in the Meade ETXLS outperforms the Schmidt-Cassegrain optical system found in many traditional consumer telescopes.

Award-winning Meade ETX-LS Telescope will be available for sale in the beginning of 2009. We know you will be as excited as we are when you see the revolutionary Meade ETX LS 06100310 w/ Light Switch Technology.