Description

80mm Aperture

900mm Focal Length, f/11 Focal Ratio

1.25″ Rack-and-Pinion Focuser

Manual Equatorial Mount

Dual Slow-Motion Control Cables

20mm & 4mm Eyepieces with 3x Barlow Lens

Erect-Image Diagonal

5×24 Finderscope

Two-Stage Aluminum Tripod with Tray

Optical Performance

80mm aperture

900mm focal length

f/11 focal ratio

Refractor-style optical design

Anti-reflection fully coated optics improves light transmission, color rendition, sharpness, and contrast

Resolution: 1.73 arc sec, Raleigh; 1.45 arc sec, Dawes

1.25″ rack-and-pinion focuser

Integrated dew-shield

Mount and Tripod

Mount:

Manual German equatorial

Etched Right Ascension and Declination scales

Includes 4-pound counterweight and shaft to enable proper balancing for free and easy movement

Flexible controllers with large, knurled knobs allows for precise control with reduced vibrations

Tripod:

Lightweight and durable aluminum legs

Two-stage adjustable height allows for easy use by most people

Tray to hold accessories such as eyepieces, filters, and lights

Eyepieces and Accessories

Eyepieces:

1.25″ barrel diameter accepts more astronomical filters

20mm eyepiece yields 45x magnification

4mm eyepiece yields 225x magnification

Barlow Lens:

3x magnification

Triples the power of any eyepiece used with it

Diagonal:

90° angle provides a more comfortable viewing position

Integrated erecting prism corrects image for land use

5×24 Finderscope:

5x magnification produces a wide field of view to make finding subjects easy and star-hopping navigation faster

Straight-through viewing

Includes mounting bracket

Additional information