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254mm (10") F/1200 Parabolic Truss-Tube FULLY MOTORISED auto- tracking Dobsonian Telescope
Introducing the Ultimate in Dobsonian design!! The patented collapsible FlexTubeTM system for ultimate convenience & portability, has now been combined with powerful dual-axis servo motors and encoders in the base unit. Now enjoy the luxury of Automatically Slewing and Tracking celestial objects, with the FlexTube’s precision diffraction-limited optics, via easy handset commands. Never before has owning a large telescope been so convenient.
(Please note: There will NOT now be a GOTO upgrade available for these models)
- Magnifications (with Eyepieces supplied): x48 & x120
- Highest Practical Power (Potential): x500
- Diameter of Primary Mirror: 254mm
- Telescope Focal Length: 1200mm (f/5)
- Eyepieces Supplied (1.25"): SP10mm & 25mm
- Dual-Fit 1.25"/2" Crayford Focuser
- Parabolic Primary Mirror
- 0.5mm Ultra-Thin Secondary Mirror Supports
- 9x50 Finderscope
- Direct SLR Camera Connection
- 3-Point tube locking system, fully retractable
- Alt-Azimuth Mount with Accessory Tray and Built-in Heavy-Duty Servo Motors
- Auto-Tracking Handset
- Choice of 1x, 4x or 8x Sidereal rate speeds in “Tracking-On” mode
- Choice of 32x Slow, 64x Medium or 800x High-Speed Slewing in “Tracking-Off” mode
- Quiet Operation
- Power Requirement: 12v DC Power Supply (Tip Positive) or LR20 Batteries (not supplied). Sky-Watcher 17Ah Power Tank Recommended
- 56% more Light Gathering than 200mm
"The hand controller can slew the telescope to almost any position you wish to go to...The telescope is really nippy and yet, despite the size of the OTA it’s moving, it is remarkably quiet...The automatic mode has a unique and patented override, which allows you to manually move the telescope to a position and retain the tracking when you get there. This in practice works incredibly well...This truss tube literally just slides into position and locks down, saving a huge amount of set-up time...For Lunar and planetary imagers this is a fantastic system once collimated, taking quite extreme levels of magnification...Views of the Moon during the Spring Moonwatch week had neighbours and family members enthralled...The tracking kept Saturn in the eyepiece view of a 12mm Plossl for a good hour...Through a 40mm wide-field eyepiece, deep sky objects like M31, M51 and some of spring’s globular clusters were jaw-dropping with impressive detail...All in all this is a great grab and go set-up, with the light grasp of some of my largest telescopes, yet it can be assembled and disassembled with lightning speed, dropping down to a size that can be put in the corner of a room or garage and lifted by just one person."
Astronomy Now Magazine
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