Slokey Telescope for Astronomy - Portable and Powerful 16x-120x Travel Scope - Easy to Mount and Use - Ideal for Kids and Beginner Adults - Astronomical Telescope for Moon, Planets and Stargazing

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You first need to find the general direction where it currently is. Use a sky map or star chart to find that location. You can also Google search ‘location of Saturn’ and Google will show you its current coordinates. The Slokey SkyWays 50080 is a bigger and better version of the SkyWays 40070 (see above). It’s aimed at beginner astronomers but is geared more towards adults than youngsters. NO COMMITMENT – The simple design of the Slokey 40070 makes it perfect for easy set-up and for you to enjoy every observing session. The tripod is adjustable and can be used by youngsters as well as adults: the power of the 40070 makes it fun and professional. And thanks to its small size and weight, you can easily take it everywhere.

And I've seen cheap telescopes, and some not cheap, that are a lot worse than even 1/2 wave. Years ago I bought a used 12.5-inch f/6 reflector made by a major manufacturer; it had obvious spherical aberration, and when I had the primary mirror professionally tested, it came out as a smooth, 7/8-wave hyperboloid: well made to the wrong spec. The Bresser Classic telescope features a 70mm aperture, with three eyepieces for sky viewing – 4mm, 12.5mm, and 20mm. It has an 18x-140x potential magnification and a 350mm focal length that enables a wide viewing area to be accessed through the tube. The 5×24 viewfinder has a hair cross design for easy and specific targeting. An erecting prism is also incorporated into the refractor design to create an upright, correct image for observation.This refractor telescope features an equatorial mount and a 70mm aperture with a 700mm focal length. It comes with 10mm and 20mm Plossl eyepieces. Plossl eyepieces effectively reduce the halo effect and chromatic aberration, both of which can diminish your viewing overall experience. Plossl eyepieces also create a brighter image so you can get a clear picture of a variety of planets and other celestial objects.

There’s one design you should avoid at all costs: the “Bird-Jones” reflector. The Bird-Jones design uses a spherical primary, and a fast one at that, in an attempt to keep the tube shorter than average. Manufacturers of this design correct for spherical aberration and increase the focal length by placing a corrector lens at the inner end of the focuser. The corrector lens is supposed to make everything all right again, but it never does. The view through every Bird-Jones scope I’ve ever looked through has been uniformly awful. There might be a decent Bird-Jones telescope somewhere out there, but if there is, I’ve never seen nor even heard of it. This clever scope is able to see clearly as far as Saturn, and can even show you the Crab Nebula M82 and M81Most hobby killers will come with a 4-mm eyepiece, which is nearly useless on its own, but it will also come with a Barlow lens, which increases the magnification of whatever eyepiece you put into it. Most Barlows multiply by 2×, so your 4-mm eyepiece plus Barlow on that 900-mm scope gives you a whopping 450×, or (900/4) ×2. Remembering our 50× per inch rule, you would need a 9″ diameter telescope to use 450× effectively. Some people are put down when they read these sort of things, how awful those tripods are and such, but a starter does not have the bias of how much better high end equipment is, thus cannot say in his mind "this is so bad and unusable", a newbie just goes and use it and tries to make the best out of it. As an avid amateur astronomer, I have had the pleasure of testing the SloKey Skyways 40070 Telescope, and I must say it is a fantastic instrument that can greatly benefit fellow stargazers. Let’s explore the features of this telescope in detail and discuss how each one can enhance the astronomical experience for amateur astronomers. A 60-mm aperture is too small to provide a good view of much more than the Moon and bright open clusters like M45, the Pleiades.

It’s powerful enough to bring bright deep-sky objects like the Orion nebula and Andromeda galaxy into view, as well as provide sharp, detailed images of astronomical bodies that are a little closer to home, such as the Moon and the planets that neighbour Earth. Aperture is represented by the diameter of the objective lens or primary mirror but is actually measured by the total surface area. Keep this in mind when comparing aperture sizes because it means that a 100mm lens can see 50% more detail than a 70mm lens. For the most part, telescopes with an aperture of less than 70mm are viewed as more of a toy than a scientific instrument. However, they aren’t always a bad choice when searching for budget telescopes or a way to view terrestrial objects. It comes with 20mm and 4mm eyepieces and a 3x Barlow lens to let you see even more of the objects around us by tripling the eyepieces’ power. It offers great views of the Moon and planets of the Solar System and comes with a Bluetooth-enabled smartphone adapter so you can shoot stills and video remotely (preventing you from shaking the scope when you press the button to start recording).In the early days of telescopes, eyepieces were single pieces of glass that essentially acted as magnifying lenses that let you examine the image created at the focal plane by the objective lens or primary mirror. Modern eyepieces do the same job, but they use many more lens elements to correct for color fringing and other optical aberrations. The motorised function, once you get used to it, is a fantastic addition and once which makes the whole journey even more rewarding A great many would-be astronomers never reach their dreams, because they get frustrated and give up too soon, before they have even learned the basics of the night sky. In my younger time, one would be able to find good quality eyepieces in 24.5mm (japanese standard). I still have an OR12mm which showed me the bands on Jupiter for the first time (which I had not been able to see with the H20 or H6mm that came with my 3" reflector). They are not made anymore. I have a young niece who somehow inherited the same type of reflector, but the eyepiece were Huyghens type, but with plastic lenses. And the 6mm was in reality something like a 15 (not much difference in magnification with the 20mm). I looked all over the internet to find a good OR type eyepiece for her, and couldn't find one. So we bought here a new 1.25" focuser and some decent eyepieces.

Designed with children in mind, the SkyWays 40070 is lightweight, compact, portable (it comes with its own travel case) and simple to assemble. And when it has been put together, you can mount it on the adjustable tripod (included), which allows you to stand the scope at anywhere from 49-132cm tall, putting it at the ideal height for kids of any age to look into.Age and strength counts for something. "The best telescope is the one you use most often." True, with the exception of anything like what the author has laid out. I built my own 8" F/6 Dob 23 years ago, and the old bones are feeling that 30-lbs per section lift and carry; (plus chairs, eyepiece case, etc... it's in better shape than I am! ...hey, _I_ might wind up with a Starblast myself! (With a few mods....) Stability: The tripod ensures a steady base, minimizing vibrations that can blur or distort the observed objects. This stability is crucial for observing at high magnifications or capturing astrophotography.