Telescope for beginners and children

The 100/400 Dobson is one of SkyWatchers compact travel telescopes. This inexpensive telescope is perfect for the first steps in astronomy for beginners and children

ADVANTAGES for beginners:

• very inexpensive
  
• good corrected 3-element eyepieces with 40° and 55° view
• starpointer: easy to find objects
• parabolic mainmirror
• easy to use mount, perfect for beginners and children

DISADVANTAGES:

• eyepieces are made of plastic (typical at this price range)
  

THE TELESCOPE:

With these small Dobson exciting observations can be made. The craters and mountains on the moon, the Venus phases, the Saturn ring or the 4 large Jupiter moons can be seen with this device, but also details on the planet itself are already visible. DeepSky objects are already visible. This telescope for beginners offers for the price a proper processing and a good look, the main mirror is parabolic and thus also provides a good picture on the edge. The small but very stable Dobson platform holds the 37cm long tube safe and wobbly and can be thanks to prism clamp also with other telescopes. The recommended maximum magnification is approx. 200x

TECHNICAL DATA:

• optical telescope: Newton Reflektor
• mainmirror: 100mm
• focal lenght: 400mm
• focal ratio: f/4
• light collecting capacity: 204x
• resolving power: 1,38“
• magnification available: 16x, 40x
• max. magnification: 200x
• total weight: 3kg

DELIVERY:

• optical tube (100/400) with dobson mount
  
• Starpointer
• 2 Barium Super eyepiece 25 and 10mm.