Skywatcher Telescope Starquest-102R - Rich Field Refractor 102/500 mm

SkyWatcher Refractor Starquest-102R with equatorial manual Mount

The STARQUEST Series is a lightweight, ?grab-and-go? range combining proven high quality Sky-Watcher telescope optics with a newly designed and well-engineered equatorial mount. The mount features a high quality clutch system, precision 122 gear-tooth/360° gearing on both axes and excellent stability with a maximum payload of 3 kg. The equatorial mount, when polar aligned, allows you to easily track objects as they move across the night sky with its smoothly operated slow motion control cables.

The STARQUEST-102R is a two-element, air-spaced achromatic refractor telescope package, and a well proven performer for ?rich-field? views of comets, star fields, star clusters, nebulae, bright galaxies/planets & the moon.

Supplied complete with equatorial mount and adjustable aluminium tripod.

Tip for higher magnifications:

Naturally such a powerful achromatic refractor has a pronounced colour defect. This becomes noticeable as a blue color fringe around brighter objects such as the moon and planets. The color error is moderate up to approx. 100x and doesn´t bother much. For higher magnifications, we recommend the Baader Fringe Killer or Constrast Booster, two filters that specifically filter out the light areas where the color error occurs (see recommended accessories). With this filters you can also make beautiful lunar and planetary observations.

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Teleskop-Service has collected a lot of helpful information on refractors and made it available as a PDF: refractors.pdf