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Orion SkyQuest XT8The Orion SkyQuest XT8
Reflecting telescopes have been designed specifically for astronomical use, the reflector telescope is the workhorse of telescope designs, and this model certainly over delivers offering good value for money. Low-cost refracting telescopes are excellent starter telescopes for adults and children as they are extremely easily transportable, simple to move around, and require almost no maintenance. It features a precision 8" (203mm) parabolic primary mirror, center-marked at the factory for precise collimation and mounted in a cast-aluminum support cell that provides maximum ventilation. The mirror pulls in 73% more light than a 6", enough to tease out dust lanes in nebulas, resolve the cores of prominent globular clusters, and reveal subtle structure in elusive galaxies. You're in total control as you point the telescope effortlessly to your target object anywhere in the sky. The 46"-long enameled steel tube glides on its sturdy Dobsonian telescope base. A gentle push or pull on the optical tube puts you right in theobserving pocket. The Orion SkyQuest XT8’s great light-gathering capacity is (over 800 times greater than the human eye) makes it just the thing for seeing those faint deep space objects.. Binary stars, open and globular star clusters, faint nebulas and galaxies are all revealed in outstanding and subtle detail, even through mildly light-polluted suburban skies. Features include
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is a popular scope that brings together powerful optics with the ultimate in mechanical simplicity and stability.