A budding amateur astronomer? Want a serious power telescope? You can take the SkyWatcher Heritage 100/400 Dobson telescope with you virtually anywhere. Or are you looking for an easy-to-use, high-quality but affordable telescope for your child? Look no further, you've found it!
The SkyWatcher Heritage 100/400 Dobson telescope is an extremely easy to carry, ultra-compact, featherweight astronomical telescope that is priced far from astronomical. With a tube length of only 37 centimetres and a total weight of 2.7 kilograms (including stand and accessories), it is a true take-and-hold telescope. What's more, its optical performance will impress the novice astronomer!
The heart of the SkyWatcher Heritage 100/400 Dobson is the 100mm precision-machined main mirror, which unlike many entry-level mirror binoculars has a paraboloid surface rather than a sphere, so you get a nice, sharp image even at high magnifications. In dark skies, far from cities, there is a lot to see in the night sky with such an instrument: star clusters, nebulae and dozens of galaxies can be seen.
The classic Dobson tripod has the advantage not only of portability but also of high stability. Unlike the beginners' telescopes mounted on simpler equatorial tripods, the image does not shake even at high magnifications. A 3/8" tripod thread on the bottom of the Dobson mechanism allows the SkyWatcher Star Adventurer to be placed on tripod stands for more comfortable viewing.
The binoculars come with a 25mm barium eyepiece, a 10mm barium eyepiece and a 2x barlow lens which give magnifications of 16x,32x40x and 80x respectively. Of course, with the purchase of additional eyepieces, the magnification range can be extended up to 120x, which is the recommended upper limit for the SkyWatcher Heritage 100/400 Dobson scope.
