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Advantages: Clarity, choice of lens, colour, brightness and price Disadvantages: Avoid the zoom eye piece...
Nikon Fieldscope 82mm ED Angled body
Introduction For the uninitiated a Fieldscope is a telescope used for nature spotting and particularly bird watching. Generally sold with zoom type eyepieces and used with a tripod for stability, these will allow you to identify or observe birds at distances beyond the reach of your binoculars.
Choices There are two basic body designs - straight and angled. With straight scopes, the barrel ... ... Onto the Nikon I was persuaded to purchase the Nikon by the various reviews I had seen in magazines and on the Internet. A key consideration for me was the price, I paid £669 for scope and £229 for the 25-75x zoom eyepiece and the Nikon stay on case for £69.99 from warehouseexpress.com
The ED82 is a replacement for the ED78, as you would expect with a product from Nikon the build quality is very good the housing is made from a tough green ...
Advantages: Good price for a beginner telescope Disadvantages: The mount can be frustrating at times
The main specification of this scope is:
.130mm (5.1") f/650 Parabolic Newtonian Reflector
.Magnifications (with optics supplied) x26 & x65
.Highest Practical Power (Potential) x260
.Diameter of Primary Mirror: 130mm
.Telescope Focal Length: 650mm (f/5)
.Eyepieces supplied (1.25") : 10mm & 25mm
.Parabolic Primary Mirror
.0.5mm Ultra-Thin Secondary Mirror Supports
.Red Dot Finder
.EQ2 Equatorial Mount
.RA drive
.Aluminium Tripod with Accessory ... ...an aperture of 5.1 inches, this is a very respectable size for a first scope. The general rule with aperture is that for every inch it delivers 50X magnification, hence the 260X. If you ever see a telescope advertised as having 600X do not buy it as these are generally poor quality scopes that cannot handle that kind of power. The scope is around 650mm in length to give it some kind of scale, it will seem much bigger if you buy it! The focal length ...
Advantages: Large aperture, reasonably portable, good optics, dual axis drive on motorised model Disadvantages: Polar alignment scope difficult to use, heavy but necessary counter weights
The large aperture on this scope gives it good light gathering capacity enabling you to the see further fainter objects that smaller aperture scopes don't. It's well built and keeps its collimation if treated right. The optics are great giving sharp clear views although the focuser can be a little tricky for faint objects. The eyepieces are standard so it's easy to get more of different powers to enhance your viewing experience' with the right adaptors ... ...easily attached to this telescope. The tracking motors if you go for that option are smooth and reliable but don't give fast slewing action which is best done manually. The lattitude setting could be better and the polar alignment scope is difficult to use as it can move in it's housing which can mean your tracking isn't as good as you would like it to be. This also means that long exposure photography can be hit and miss and i've had poor results ...
A great telescope this one sure to catch a few Unidentified flying objects and even ET may make an appearance if you go out and buy this rather special telescope! I do like astronomy its fantastic t think of all of the world's out there we haven't yet discovered whether they be alien or of human race, it really is mind blowing how little we know about the great void that is the universe! Getting your hands on one of these really does make all that ...
Marshman 03.11.2005 ·Read full review
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Review of Meade DS-80EC
Advantages: High quality optics, a very sturdy mount, Built in precise drives & Heavy. Disadvantages: No bubble leveller on mount, No manual & Heavy
Skywatcher Explorer 200 F/5 & HEQ5 Mount
As this telescope comes in two parts (the scope - the mount) and each part is available separately, I've written two reviews, one for each.
Firstly the Scope
***Specifications***
Main Mirror Size = 8" (200mm), generally the bigger the better. But the bigger it is the less portable everything becomes, it's a bit of a balancing act...
Focal Length = 1000mm, the length from the main mirror to the Eyepiece. ... ...you want the scope to do.
Focal Ratio = F/5 (Fast), associated with Focal length above. The lower the F/# the faster the scope which will make photography easier and give bigger field of views. Low F/#'s = good for Deep sky Objects (galaxies, star clusters). High F/#'s = good for Planets. This does not mean that if you have a Low F/# that you can't view the planets, it's just not an ideal telescope for that object.
***Standard Equipment***
Eyepieces, ...
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