Skywatcher Heritage 130 - Black Diamond Line Dobsonian with 130mm Aperture and Parabolic Primary Mirror
... powerful and compact Dobsonian telescope for travelling.



Skywatcher Black Diamond Dob 130 ... Skywatcher designed this telescope for the International Year of Astronomy (IYA) - it is not an undersized mini-telescope that might show just a handful of objects, but it is a powerful telescope for a lifetime of enjoyment in a still extremely portable body. With its 130mm parabolical primary mirror you can view thousands of objects.

With its clever patented extendable truss tube design the telescope is extremely portable. Fully retracted the tube is only 37cm in length! Setup takes only minutes and can easily be done without special tools.

What objects can you see?

With its parabolic mirror with 130mm aperture the Heritage has an excellent image quality for stunning views of the moon and the planets:

-- Phases of Mercury and Venus
-- Details on Moon's surface
-- Polar caps of Mars
-- Great Red Spot and cloud bands on Jupiter
-- Rings of Saturn, including the famous Cassini divisioni

Beyond our solar system thousands of star clusters, gas nebulae, planetary nebulae and galaxies are within reach of this telescope. You can see much more than in the ubiquitous 114mm Newtonian.

Easy Operation ... The Heritage is a Dobsonian-style telescope. As a consequence it is very easy to use.

-- Just place the telescope on a rigid flat surface, e.g. a strong table or the ground
-- Pull the tube to its fully extended position
-- Insert an eyepiece and enjoy observing!

You can point the telescope at any point in the sky with left-right and up-down movements. With a little practice it is easy to follow the movement of the objects even at maximum magnification.

Specifications:

-- Aperture 130mm / Focal Length 650mm / Focal Ratio f/5
-- Diffraction limited optics, parabolic primary mirror
-- 1.25" focuser for standard accessories
-- Maximum recommended magnification approx. 220x
-- Limiting magnitude 13.3 mag
-- Resolving power 0.9" (seconds of arc)
-- Tube length: 37cm fully retracted
-- Total weight: approx. 7kgs

Scope of Delivery:

-- Skywatcher Dobsonian 130/650mm
-- Starpointer red dot finder
-- Eyepieces 25mm (26x) and 10mm (65x)

Recommended Accessories:

-- 2x Barlow lens for doubling the magnification
-- HR 6mm eyepiece
-- Cleaning tools

A short review:

Link to a review about the Skywatcher 130mm Dobson from Detlef Koschny