

Celestron Skywatcher 8" Classic Dobsonian Telescope
Key item features
- Optical Specifications: Features a 203mm mirror diameter with a 1200mm focal length (8") and an f/5.9 F-ratio, providing powerful viewing capabilities for celestial objects.
- Advanced Optics: Incorporates a parabolic primary mirror to effectively eliminate spherical aberration, ensuring clear and sharp images.
- Stable Mount: Equipped with a tension control handle for the alt-azimuth mount, allowing the telescope to maintain its position even when released.
- Refined Construction: Utilizes a four-arm, secondary mirror bracket with fine 0.5mm supports to minimize diffraction spikes and light loss.
- User-Friendly Design: Includes a 2-inch single-speed Crayford-style focuser with a 1.25-inch adapter, accommodating various eyepiece sizes for enhanced versatility.
- Effortless Assembly: Designed for quick two-piece assembly, enabling easy dismantling for convenient transport and storage.
- Bright Views: Features 94% reflectivity mirrors, ensuring bright and detailed views for optimal astronomical observations.
Specs
- Lens diameter0 mm
- Telescope typeReflector Telescopes
- Maximum focal length1200 mm
- BrandSky-Watcher
- Maximum magnification406x
- Skill levelBeginner
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Product details
Given its technical superiority and amazing adaptability, the Sky-Watcher Classic 8” Dobsonian is a great addition to the collection of any amateur astronomer. A powerful and efficient telescope, the Sky-Watcher Classic 8” Dobsonian combines technological excellence with user-friendly efficiency to allow you to view the moon, stars, planets and mysteries of deep space from your own backyard!
Design
The Sky-Watcher Classic Dobsonian Telescope has a 203mm mirror diameter with a focal length of 1200mm (8") and a F-ratio of f/5.9. This model includes the new feature-tension control handle which allows the user to change the settings and move the mount with minimal pulsation. Even when released, the telescope will sustain its position and keep its view of the skies.
Construction
A simple, elegant form of an alt-azimuth mount made to carry a Newtonian reflector was popularized by John Dobson in the late 1970’s. The Dobsonian mounted telescope has been a favorite among amateur astronomers and telescope makers because of its simplicity and ease of use ever since. The Sky-Watcher Classic Dobsonian has a parabolic primary mirror to eliminate spherical aberration and a four-arm, secondary mirror bracket with fine supports (0.5mm thick), to reduce diffraction spikes and light loss. In addition, this model includes a 2 inch single-speed Crayford-style focuser with a 1.25 inch adapter, allowing the use of either eyepiece size.
Ease-of-Use
Sky-Watcher Classic Dobsonians has an easy two-piece assembly allowing for quick dismantling into tube and base for quick transport or storage. The Sky-Watcher’s 94% reflectivity mirrors ensure you get bright, detailed views for the best possible sightings.
- Focal length of 1200mm (8")
- Telescope will sustain its position even when released
- Teflon bearing for alt-azimuth mount
- Parabolic primary mirror to eliminate spherical aberration
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Hi. The telescope arrived today as expected. Great purchase experience, very communicative from start to finish. The scope came two packages, easily to assemble and to carry around not that heavy at all. I'm really happy with the product and the simplicity of its design. Love it









