Meade Polaris 114mm Reflector Telescope

An excellent Meade Polaris 114mm reflector telescope is the Meade Polaris 114EQ-D (36 x 114mm). This Meade Polaris 114mm reflector telescope has an optical finderscope, focal length of 900mm, and a maximum magnification of 36x (which means it can magnify objects in the sky to 36 times what the human eye can see.) This reflector telescope is not motorized and comes equipped with an equatorial mount.

Avid amateur astronomers are able to view the more distant and more difficult to find celestial objects in finer detail with this high performance Meade Polaris 114mm telescope. Its 114mm aperture portrays images in finer detail. With its 114mm aperture images are 361 times as bright as those seen with a telescope that has a standard 60mm aperture. Similar is this Meade Polaris reflector telescope review.

To explain the reflector portion of the Meade Polaris 114mm reflector telescope: There are a few different choices in optics for telescopes. Refractors are the standard, and are, quite often the biggest and most expensive of any of the telescopes and types. They do, however, usually offer the best and least obstructed views of celestial objects.

Reflector telescopes, on the other hand, display images by the use of mirrors. This is what the Meade Polaris 114mm reflector telescope does. Reflector telescopes have the advantage of being smaller (thus lighter weight and easier to travel with, hold and store) and less expensive. They also have the disadvantage of offering a lower quality of sky gazing image.

The third and least common of the types of telescopes is the catadioptrics, which while comparatively small and inexpensive, use a combination of mirrors and lenses. A used Meade Polaris 114mm reflector telescope, in good shape, starts at just over $100 on the various e-commerce and auction Web sites we perused.