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Meade Infinity 80AZ

For its retail price, we were impressed with the build of the Meade Infinity 80AZ, along with its performance, when we took the instrument out for a night of observations on an August evening. Unpacking the refractor, we noted that the telescope comes very well-equipped with three eyepieces for low, medium and high magnification and a Barlow lens, as well as a DVD that provides instructions on how to set up the telescope.

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