Meade now brings to market a sophisticated Catadioptric optical design favored by research facilities worldwide at a price many enthusiasts can afford. Most professional applications are this style telescope or a gargantuan apochromatic refractor. Meade's 16.0" LX200 provides an enormous deep space aperture in a complete package appropriate for professional and advanced amateur observers. All of the accoutrements of the LX200 name, but in the superior performing Ritchey-Chrétien optical design.