page_title: Meade Instruments
section_title: Maksutov telescopes
hierarchical_section_title: Meade Instruments / Products / Catadioptric cassegrains / Maksutov telescopes
caption_attribution_description: English: Example of a commercially manufactured "spot" Maksutov cassegrain.
context_page_description: The Meade Instruments Corporation is an American multinational company headquartered in Irvine, California, that manufactures, imports, and distributes telescopes, binoculars, spotting scopes, microscopes, CCD cameras, and telescope accessories for the consumer market. It is the world's largest manufacturer of telescopes.
  Besides selling under its "Meade" brand name, the company sells solar telescopes under the brand "Coronado". Its products are also imported and sold in Europe by a former subsidiary under the Meade and Coronado brand names.
context_section_description: Meade produces a line of Maksutov telescopes under their ETX series (Everybody's Telescope). They were first produced in 90 mm (3-1/2") Maksutov Cassegrain telescope in 1996. They range in size from 90 mm to 125 mm.
caption: The Meade "ETX" series Maksutov-Cassegrain telescope (105mm aperture).
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