A great 60mm Refractor 700mm telescope made by Celestron / Tasco on a motorised GOTO mount.
The STARGUIDE 60 GOTO is a high quality Refractor telescope with a computerised & motorised GOTO mount set-up, controlled by a STARGUIDE hand controller. This set-up allows you to automatically find and track thousands of stars, nebulae & planets from it's database. It is in excellent condition and comes complete with 2 eyepieces (10mm & 20mm), red-dot finder, hand controller, tripod, GOTO mount & Battery pack (uses 8x AA). You can also run it from a 12v DC adapter / car adapter. These scopes were designed by Celestron and are the same as the NexStar scopes.
An ideal "grab and go" scope that gives excellent views and stable tracking. The ability to find any one of thousands of stars, DSO or planets is amazing, and works well once aligned, using the easy set up. The system will keep the object in the centre of the eyepiece as it tracks the object.
The stable GOTO mount could lso be used to upgrade your mount to give your current telescope GOTO capability with a small adaptor from BAADER PLANETARIUM. You could use it with other Refracters or a medium size MAK.
Pick-up only due to weight.
Manufacturer's Description
Interested in Astronomy? Ever looked at the stars or moon on a clear night and wanted a closer look, but put off by your lack of Astronomical knowledge?
Don’t be, the Starguide 60 telescope comes complete with a mission control star seeker. This computerised hand controller with it’s auto align feature, will let you automatically find and track 1800 pre-programmed stars, planets and other space phenomena.
The hand held "Mission Controller" can find thousands of stars and planets quickly, easily and reliably, and it’s simple to set up and operate. Just put in your time, date, location and position of North and let the Star Seeker technology take over. You can select any celestial object from your Starguide database (1800) and be there with the push of a button.
Product Features
* Tasco Starguide 60 Computerised Refractor Telescope
* 700mm Focal Length
* 60mm Objective
* Alt Azimuth Mount
* Heavy Duty Aluminium Tripod
* 1.25" Eyepieces 10mm/20mm
* Red Dot Star Pointer
* Mission Control Handset
* Battery Pack
Technical Details
1 LCD Window: Has a dual line, 16 character display screen that is backlit for comfortable viewing of telescope information and scrolling text.
2 Align: Instructs the StarGuide to use a selected star or object as an alignment position.
3 Direction Keys: Allows complete control of the StarGuide in any direction. Use the direction keys to move the telescope to the initial alignment stars or for centering objects in the eyepiece.
4 Catalog Keys: The StarGuide has keys on the hand control to allow direct access to each of the catalogs in it’s 1,800 + object database. The StarGuide contains the following catalogs in it’s database:
Messier - Complete list of all messier objects.
NGC - Many of the brightest deep sky objects from the Revised New General Catalog.
Caldwell - A combination of the best NGC and IC objects.
Planets - All 8 planets in our solar system plus the Moon and Sun.
Stars - A compiled list of the brightest stars from the SAO catalog.
List - For quick access, all of the best and most popular objects in the StarGuide database
have been broken down into lists based on their type and / or common name:
Aligned Stars - Common name listing of the brightest stars in the sky
Named Objects - Alphabetical listing of over 50 of the most popular deep sky objects
Double Stars - Alphabetical listing of the most visually stunning double, triple and quadruple stars in the sky
Variable Stars - Select list of the brightest variable stars with the shortest period of changing magnitude.
Asterisms - A unique list of some of the most recognizable star patterns in the sky.
5 Info: Displays coordinates and useful information about objects selected from the StarGuide
database.
6 Tour: Activates the tour mode, which seeks out all the best objects for a given month and
automatically slews the StarGuide to those objects.
7 Enter: Pressing enterallows you to select any of the StarGuide functions and accept entered
parameters.
8 Undo: Undo will take you out of the current menu and display the previous level of the menu path. Press undo repeatedly to get back to a main menu or use it to erase data entered by mistake.
9 Menu: Displays the many setup and utilities functions such as tracking rate and user defined objects and many others.
10 Scroll Keys: Used to scroll up and down within any of the menu lists
11 Rate: Instantly changes the rate of speed of the motors when the direction buttons are pressed.
12 RS-232 Jack: Allows use with a computer and software programes for point and click slewing capability.
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