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Celestron astro fi 130 pro#
Skywatcher PRO Series Maksutov Newtonian Astrograph
Skywatcher PRO-Series Maksutov-Cassegrain Telescopes Skywatcher PRO-Series Esprit Triplet Refractors Skywatcher PRO-Series Evostar ED Refractors Skywatcher Maksutov-Cassegrain Telescopes Skywatcher Parabolic Dual Speed Newtonians In summary, it feels altogether wizard-y the first time you touch your phone's screen and the long, thin telescope slews to a celestial sight.Skywatcher Synscan AZ Go2 Wifi App Telescopes Of course, the tray also holds your eyepieces. Not only does it serve as a spreader to lock the tripod in position, but the tray also has a sweet rubber-coated hump designed to rest your phone or small tablet at a viewable - but not "slip and fall" - angle. If they take a serious dent, get twisted or become warped (all quite possible), they will not smoothly slide to their collapsed positions. Worse, the legs have a rectangular cross section.
It's softer than steel and could easily be bent. But we found that big-tube reflectors riding on Celestron's one-arm altitude-azimuth mount (same for all three Astro Fi scopes) tend to wobble when the scope is slewed and wiggle when the wind blows. If you absolutely must have a reflector, Celestron offers the Astro Fi 130 Newtonian. But it's actually a nice visual effect, and you'd slew to put your main target in the center anyway. All but the most expensive catadioptrics have fields that are less than flat. That's a characteristic of the hybrid mirror/lens design. (Image credit: might notice a little softness at the edges of your circular image with the 102 Mak-Cas. Just open the SkyPortal app, hold it to the sky, tap an object, and your Astro Fi scope will point there and track the celestial sight.
Celestron astro fi 130 portable#
You control it with your smartphone or portable tablet. With a focal ratio of 10.1, it is not especially "fast." But if you have clear, dark skies, you won't need more speed unless you get into serious astrophotography.Ĭelestron's Astro Fi 102 Mak-Cas is a compact, easy-to-use telescope. The lens coatings do a fair job of contrast improvement.
Optically, the 3.5-inch (90mm) spyglass does not disappoint. We love refractors, like the Astro Fi 90, for spying on neighboring planets, and we love catadioptric hybrids, like the Astro Fi 102 Mak-Cas, for point sources, like stars. The overused phrase "this is the future" (of astronomy) comes to mind. The Astro Fi (plus your device) will do the rest in a few seconds.
You will have to perform a quick alignment, but this is super easy: Center any bright object in the eyepiece repeat for two other bright objects. Just touch an on-screen target, and your Astro Fi scope will slew to and center that sight, while your smart device displays information about the object. You just hold your phone or tab up to the night sky, and the scope will accurately track what's up tonight.
Celestron astro fi 130 manual#
There's no hand controller, no set of manual pointing knobs and no need for a laptop cabled to the mount.
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