Features:
- 80mm (3.1 inch) aperture; 900mm objective lens focal length
- Includes electronic controller for easy push-button object location and tracking
- Smooth, precise tracking with altazimuth mounting
- 2-element achromatic objective lens with multicoating
- Includes full-length, adjustable heavy-duty aluminum tripod
Description:
Meade's DS-80EC refracting telescope offers a large aperture, high-quality optics, and easy push-button electronic operation, making it a perfect instrument for the serious beginner or intermediate observer. It features a multicoated, achromatic two-element objective lens and precise, smooth altitude and azimuth movements. It includes the Meade handheld electronic controller, which allows for four-speed push-button operation and easy object location and tracking. It also includes Meade's StarNavigator software, which displays more than 10,000 celestial objects for help in locating galaxies, nebulae, star clusters, stars, and planets. Additionally, the telescope comes with a full-length adjustable heavy-duty aluminum tripod with accessory shelf.The DS-80EC exhibits Meade's fine attention to detail and quality, from the precision-polished crown and flint optical glass components and contrast-increasing multicoatings, to oversize bearings on both telescope axes that facilitate great precision in tracking. It offers a resolving power of 1.5 arcseconds, a limiting visual magnitude of 11.6, a 275x maximum practical visual power, and a 6mm by 30mm viewfinder. Its relatively large 80mm objective lens allows you to observe celestial objects like the rings of Saturn, Saturn's largest satellite, Titan, the moon-like phases of Venus, and hundreds of deep-space phenomena like galaxies, nebulae, and star clusters. The DS-80EC is also built to be fully compatible with Meade's Autostar computer controller, for automatic location and tracking of celestial objects.
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