Designed and built for beginners, the Celestron ExploraScope 80AZ 80mm f/11 Alt-Az Refractor Telescope offers a complete setup for viewing the Moon, planets, meteor showers, and bright deep-sky objects. The optics are fully coated with anti-reflection coatings to reduce light loss and produce brighter and clearer images with improved contrast.
The scope features a manual alt-azimuth mount with an altitude adjustment rod that allows users to track objects as they move across the night sky. Two eyepieces are included to produce 45x and 225x, with a 3x Barlow lens that effectively triples the magnification of each eyepiece. A 90° diagonal is also provided to put the user in a more comfortable viewing position, and it has an erector prism to correct the image orientation horizontally and vertically to enable the scope to be used for terrestrial viewing as well. Its adjustable aluminum tripod provides a stable observation platform, and its adjustable height from 31 to 52" allows for comfortable viewing by most users.
- 80mm aperture
- f/11 focal ratio
- 900mm focal length
- Refractor optical design
- Anti-reflection fully coated optics improves light transmission and contrast
- Resolution: 1.74 arc sec, Rayleigh; 1.45 arc sec, Dawes
- Rack-and-pinion focuser with 1.25" drawtube
- Mount:
- Manual alt-azimuth yoke-style
- Slow-motion altitude control rod to make minute adjustments
- Tripod:
- Aluminum legs with black finish
- Two-section, adjustable height
- 31-52" adjustment range
- Accessory tray with eyepiece holders
- Eyepieces:
- 1.25" diameter barrel
- Accepts most 1.25" eyepiece filters
- 4mm eyepiece yields 225x magnification
- 20mm eyepiece yields 45x power
- Diagonal:
- 90° angle puts user's head in a comfortable viewing position
- Erect-image prism corrects view for terrestrial viewing
- Barlow lens:
- 3x magnification effectively triples the power of each eyepiece
- Finder:
- Red-dot StarPointer
- Wide, unmagnified view to find subjects easy, and make star-hopping navigation faster