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Sky Watcher Explorer 130P SupaTrak Reflector
Telescope
Whether your interest is Deep-Sky, the Moon and Planets,
or a combination of both, the Explorer-130P offers excellent
all-round performance ....
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The
Explorer-130P is a 5.5-inch (130mm) reflecting telescope
that is powerful enough to reveal many secrets of the night
sky. It offers sharp and bright images, enabling you to
view objects during the day, and dazzling sky-objects during
the night. The new SupaTrak™ motorised mount provided
with this telescope enables you to keep the objects in the
night sky in view automatically (at high magnifications,
movement of the night sky due to the rotation of the Earth
is magnified too, so this motorised mount is very useful).
Our Explorer 130P Reflector Telescope is manufactured by
Sky-Watcher, one of the most respected telescope manufacturers
- products you can trust, representing great value for money.
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SKY WATCHER HIGH PERFORMANCE TELESCOPE
The Explorer-130P OTA has already been heaped with much
praise and accolade by the media and astronomy press for
its excellent Parabolic optics. It is highly recommended
for the beginner or experienced observer wanting excellent
results, from a telescope of decent aperture and of manageable
proportions.
Whether your interest is Deep-Sky, the Moon and Planets,
or a combination of both, the Explorer-130P offers excellent
all-round diffraction-limited performance.
The new SupaTrak™ Auto-Tracking Alt-Azimuth Mount is a
heavier-duty version of the standard Auto-Tracking mount,
designed to carry heavier telescopes. This mounting, with
its built-in dual-axis multi-speed Servo motors is ideal
for both Astronomical & Terrestrial use. In Astronomical
mode, after following the simple set-up procedure, the
mount is capable of tracking astronomical objects automatically.
The fully motorised mount is convenient, practical, lightweight
and easy to set-up and is ideal for both beginners and
experienced users alike.
Overall this is a sizzling telescope package offering
a truly phenomenal, ground-breaking combination of quality,
performance and value for money.
Technical specification:
- Magnifications (with optics supplied): x26, x52,
x65, x130
- Highest Practical Power (Potential): x260
- Diameter of Primary Mirror: 130mm
- Telescope Focal Length: 650mm (f/5)
- Eyepieces Supplied (1.25”): 10mm & 25mm
- X2 Barlow Lens
- Red Dot Finder
- 1.25”/31.7mm Star Diagonal
- SupaTrakTM Heavy-Duty Motorised Multi-Speed Auto-Tracking
Alt-Azimuth Mount
- Power Requirement: 12v DC Power Supply (Tip Positive)
or AA Batteries (not supplied)
- Aluminium Tripod with Accessory Tray
- 0.5mm Ultra-Thin Secondary Mirror Supports
- 30% more Light Gathering than 114mm
Package includes:
- Explorer 130P Telescope
- 10mm
& 25mm Precision Eyepieces
- Barlow Lens
- Motorised Mount & Stand
- Instruction Booklet
Ages: 12+ |
Telescope Features:
- Ideal Home telescope
- Astronomical
Telescope, with 130mm diameter mirror
- Perfect
for discovering the Night Sky (and more earthly
subjects!)
- Complete
Kit - Everything included
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REVIEW of the Explorer 130P SupaTrak™
Telescope: “I was most impressed by the views
revealed by the ‘scope during tests….Despite a phase of
nearly 96%, the waxing gibbous Moon revealed a seemingly
inexhaustible amount of fine detail” Astronomy Now Magazine
REVIEW of the Explorer 130P SupaTrak™
Telescope: ”Its sharp optics and relatively
small central obstruction (35mm = 27%) ensure that it delivers
bright, diffraction-limited images…. can view a true field
of in excess of 2°…. will give you memorable views of the
Moon and bright planets…. In short, it’s a great all-rounder
in its class….The new SupaTrak™ mount shares more than a
passing resemblance to the Celestron SLT, but the somewhat
quieter and heavier duty SupaTrak sports a more robust Vixen-style
dovetail clamp…. I found that the SupaTrak was capable of
following a celestial object at high magnifications for
tens of minutes before slowly drifting out of the field
of view, which is perfectly adequate for visual use or simple
webcam imaging…. If you are looking for an intuitive and
far less intimidating user experience than that offered
by cheaper GoTo mounts, the SupaTrak is highly recommended
as a versatile grab-and-go system.” Ade Ashford
Choosing a Telescope: There are two main categories
of telescope: Refractors and Reflectors. Refractors, use
two or more lenses to collect and focus the light from an
object to the eye of the observer, and can trace their design
back to the telescopes of Galileo’s era. Reflectors
(like the one shown on this page), developed by Isaac Newton
in the 17th century, use mirrors to focus the light. As
magnifications increase, impurities in the glass of lenses
can cause distortion (commonly a “rainbow-like” halo around
objects) requiring expensive and difficult treatments and
coatings to correct. Reflectors telescopes avoid this problem,
and are generally cheaper to manufacture for a given sized
aperture (the main lens or mirror used to catch the incoming
light). As a result, most high-performance optical telescopes,
including the Hubble Space Telescope, are reflector designs.
SKY-WATCHER DELUXE MIRROR COATINGS: Most reflectors
today usually have a coat of aluminium as the mirror surface
and then an overcoat of silicon monoxide or silicon dioxide
to protect it. Silicon dioxide produces a much more durable
coat than silicon monoxide but requires specialized equipment
to apply it and is therefore more expensive. Protection
is needed, because in most reflectors, the mirror is open
to the elements and deterioration of the reflective layer
reduces the resolution of the telescope. ALL Sky-Watcher
reflectors are Multi-Coated with Silicon Dioxide as standard
for Optimum Durability and Long Term Performance.
Please note: Viewing the sun can cause permanent eye
damage. Do not view the sun with the Telescope, Finderscope
or even with the naked eye. To observe the sun, it is
best to project the view onto a piece of white card (see
intsruction booklet).
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