Description

Saxon 8″ DeepSky Dobsonian Telescope

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The saxon 8″ DeepSky （203/1200）Dobsonian Telescope is the perfect partner to begin your astronomy adventure with. This affordable telescope comes with a “paraboloidal” 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.

This telescope comes with an aperture of 203mm and a focal length of 1200mm in a 8″ tube. This scope features quality parts and accessories – the special roller-bearing construction, Crayford focuser, eyepieces and finderscope are all designed to aid with your observing experience. Once assembled and with a little practice, you’ll soon be able to find and view the rocky surfaces of the Moon, planets in the Solar System as well as deep sky objects such as star clusters, double stars, nebulae and galaxies.

The saxon 8″ DeepSky Dobsonian Telescope requires no additional tools during assembly and is incredibly easy to use, making it the perfect scope for beginner astronomers.

What is Dobsonian Telescope and Why the Tension Control Handle?

The Dobsonian mounted telescope is popular among amateur astronomers and telescope makers because of its simplicity. In its simplest form, the Dobsonian mount consists of a box which allows the optical tube assembly to pivot in altitude, while the box itself is swivelled on a base in azimuth.

The objective of the saxon Tension Control Handle invention is to provide a tension adjuster that users can easily turn to add or reduce tension, thereby increasing or decreasing the friction between the optical tube and the sideboard of the mount.

By providing such a tension adjuster, the telescope does not need to be balanced in order to stay in position. The tension adjuster can be tightened such that the optical tube can stay in a position but can still be moved when prompted to adjust the position of the optical tube. Alternatively, the tension adjuster can be completely tightened to lock the optical tube in position.

	saxon 10mm/25mm 1.25’’ Plossl Eyepiece(Silver) Featuring a 4-element design, this Plossl eyepiece ensures maximum light transition, minimises spherical aberration, distortion, astigmatism and off-axis colour. The edge-to-edge blackened optics provides excellent contrast across the 50° apparent field of view.
	saxon 9×50 Finderscope with bracket The 50mm aperture gives an extra bright and sharp image, while 9x magnification lets you see more and deeper. Lock on to your targets with the cross-hair reticle and observe away.
	Dobsonian Alt-Azimuth This kind of mount requires no additional tools during assembly and is incredibly easy to use, making it the perfect scope for beginner astronomers.
	Star/ Moon Chart The star chart shows the solar system of which earth is a member planet and the moon chart clearly shows the topography of the lunar surface.