All about Meade Series 4000

In 1972 from the time Meade was founded, it remained as one of the world’s leading manufacturers of telescopes and accessories for eager beginner astronomers. The company has released many models of telescopes. The most popular model for amateur astronomers is the series ETX, an acronym for Everyone’s Telescope, since it’s the most user-friendly.

Meade has developed various types of telescopes, along with it are the accessories, which aids in stargazing with its superior imaging and functions. To meet the standards of consumers who want to visualize the celestial bodies, more or less, to the nearest exact image and color, the company designed and created the Meade Series 4000 accessories.

The Meade Series 4000 eyepieces produce the broadcast feasible fields of view; it has a pinpoint edge-of-field sharpness and long eye relief with global aberration, and off-axis color. It has a seven-layer multi coating and edge-blackened optic to obtain most favorable image contrast, and these sophisticated elements is designed to allow the level of optical performance.

Meade Series 4000 eyepieces provides the widest possible fields of view, consistent with pinpoint edge-of-field sharpness and long eye relief with low astigmatism, spherical aberration, and off-axis color.

All Series 4000 eyepieces consist of a soft rubber eyeguard, custom fitted to each eyepiece with a bayonet mount. If you wear eyeglasses while looking into the telescope, you can fold the eyeguard down to protect your eyeglasses from coming in contact with the metal eyepiece. It is amazing how Meade reaches out to the needs of its consumers. Meade ensures the customers comfort in using their products.

Another eyepiece in the Meade Series 4000 is the Super Plössl eyepiece. The Super Plössl has a good ocular design which is well suited for general-purpose viewing. This accessory optimizes the performance of telescopes enabling deep space viewing and the observing of faint planetary nebula. Using the Super Plössl, you can see the fine details of the moon and the planets. It is also a good choice for splitting close double stars.

The Series 4000 Color Filter application is recommended for those who want to watch and enjoy the colors of planets and other celestial bodies. For example, if you use the light yellow filter, you can see the red and orange belt phenomena on the planet Jupiter.

Using the yellow green filter, you can observe the red and blue characteristics of the surface of Jupiter and Saturn. If you focus the telescope using the appropriate color filters, the resolutions of the planets like the Uranus, Neptune and Mars are more enhanced for your viewing. There are different kinds of colors in the series 4000 filter, which when used can give a brighter and colorful vision of the planets.

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