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Meade LX200 Instruction Manual
7" Maksutov-Cassegrain, and 8", 10", and 12" Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescopes
B. UNPACKING AND INSPECTION
IMPORTANT NOTICE! Never
use a telescope or spotting
scope to look at the Sun!
Observing the Sun, even for
the shortest fraction of a
second, will cause irreversible damage
to your eye as well as physical damage
to the telescope or spotting scope itself.
As you begin to unpack your telescope from its cartons, you will
probably be interested in setting it up right away; we certainly
understand your excitement but please take a few minutes to read
this page before doing so. You should verify that you have all the
proper equipment, and that it has arrived to you undamaged.
We strongly recommend that you keep your original packing
materials. If it should ever become necessary for you to return your telescope to the Meade factory for
servicing, these will help ensure that no shipping damage will occur.
Meade LX200 telescopes supplied to countries outside the U.S.A. are identical to those offered
domestically, with the exception of the AC wall adapter.
[ toc ] 1. What You Should Have
Carefully unpack and remove all the telescope parts from their packing material. Compare each part to the
product identification label on the outside of each carton. In the case of the LX200 Accessory carton, a
seperate list of items is enclosed identifying each item in that carton. You may wish to place a check next
to each item as you identify it. Each telescope has been inspected twice at the factory to confirm the
inclusion of every item.
[ toc ] 2. Please Look Everything Over
Meade Instruments and your shipper have taken precautions to ensure that no shipping damage will occur,
but if your shipment has suffered severe vibration or impact damage (whether or not the shipping cartons
show damage) then it is important that you retain all the original packing and contact the shipper to arrange
a formal inspection of the package or packages. This procedure is required prior to any warranty servicing
by Meade Instruments.
[ toc ] 3. Inspecting the Optics: Note on the "Flashlight" Test
If a flashlight or other high-intensity light source is pointed down the main telescope tube, you may at first
be shocked at the appearance of the optics. To the uninitiated, the view (depending on your line of sight
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