It weighs only 49 pounds fully assembled. The Sky-Watcher breaks down into two components - a 48' long 24 pound optical tube and a 25 pound wooden rocker box altazimuth base. The 8' Sky-Watcher Dobsonian is easy to get to your favorite observing site, too, whether that be your own back yard or a dark sky site miles out of town. You get the best of both observing worlds with this 8' Sky-Watcher Dob: great light gathering for picking out the faint fuzzies outside our solar system, and great resolution for seeing all the detail on the Moon, planets, and comets inside the solar neighborhood. They show high contrast and none of the violet halo of spurious color you find in similarly-priced smaller aperture achromatic refractors. With parabolic mirror Newtonian optics and very thin (only 0.5mm) secondary mirror spider vanes to reduce diffraction, the Moon and planets are sharp and well-defined. Its visual limiting magnitude of 14 makes this 8' Sky-Watcher a natural for observing faint nebulas, galaxies, and star clusters, particularly from a dark sky site. It shows you faint deep space objects that are simply invisible in smaller scopes. Like all Dobsonian reflectors, this 8' Sky-Watcher traditional solid tube Dob gives you more light-gathering for your visual observing dollar than any other telescope type. Single-speed 2' Crayford focuser with 1.25' adapter This 8' Sky-Watcher Dobsonian reflector has: 8' aperture 1200mm focal length f/5.9 Newtonian optics Astronomics Used, Demo, Closeout, Spring Cleaning Page.Rechargeable Batteries And Power Supplies.Personal Planetariums / Electronic Sky Guides.

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