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Article #3375Re: research grade vs. commercial grade
From: Stephen Davies
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:17
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:17
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After reading a few cynical posts ;) I thought I would note that it was Meade themselves who referred to some of their newtonian reflectors as "research grade". I believe that they used this term to differentiate between their line of inexpensive "Deep Space" reflectors (DS-10, DS-16) and their other line of newtonians which had more expensive tubes and somewhat better hardware. I'm not sure if these scopes had better optics (possibly the DS series had thinner mirrors?), but the tube itself is constructed of better materials.
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