"This isn't a telescope for observing prominences or the Sun's delicate surface details, but for sunspots it performed brilliantly....the price point and viewing experience prove this is an excellent starter set. With or without the mount option, the Acuter Solarus 80 shouldn't gather dust."
BBC Sky At Night Magazine
The exiting Acuter Solarus-80 is an 80mm solar telescope with a safe, permanently-mounted white light solar filter of glass construction. which is useful for many different aspects of white light solar observing, including the observation of sunspots, solar eclipses, solar surface details & the transit of inner planets across the Sun.
Features a built-in rotating filter wheel, complete with pre-installed filters to allow the Sun to be viewed in different colours. Supplied with a universal smartphone camera adaptor to take photos using your smartphone, to keep a photographic record of your observations.
The Acuter Solarus-80 conforms to and meets the transmission requirements of ISO 12312-2:2015 (Filters for the direct observation of the Sun). Always use in accordance with the instructions.
SPECIFICATION:
- Built-in Permanently Mounted White Light Solar Filter
- Objective Lens Diameter: 80mm (Multi-Coated)
- Telescope Focal Length: 400mm (f/5)
- Eyepiece Supplied: Fixed 5-16mm Zoom Eyepiece, adjustable in 5mm, 10mm & 16mm stages
- Magnifications: x80, x40 & x25
- Safe Solar Finder
- Universal Smartphone Adaptor (smartphone not supplied)
- Filter Wheel, Pre-loaded with Red, Yellow, Blue, Green, Orange & ND (Neutral Density) Filters, with handy In-Use Filter Indicator. Includes one empty slot for filterless viewing.
- 90º Diagonal for comfortable viewing (non-rotatable)
- Crayford Focuser (non-rotatable)
- 45mm Vixen-Type Dovetail Bar with 1/4"-20 Tripod Threads (Side Mounted)
- Recommended mounting: Sky-Watcher SolarQuest Auto-Tracking Solar Mount or Alt-Azimuth Mount with Side-mounted 45mm saddle
- Telescope Length: 378mm
- Telescope Weight: 1.75kg
