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ETX80 Meade telescope + AutoStarCurrent status: In stock
- The most popular telescope from Meade
- Locate thousands of objects at the touch of a button
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Celestron 114LCM
Current status: In stock
- Ideal Newtonian reflector telescope for beginners
- Alt-azimuth motorised tripod
- Good optics
- Includes accessory tray
- GoTo with more than stored 4,000 objects
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Meade ETX125 PE telescope + AutoStar
Current status: In stock
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- Locate the stars automatically!
- Electronic level sensor
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Meade ETX90 PE telescope + AutoStar
Current status: In stock
- Comes with an Autostar database of 30,000 objects
- Includes 26mm eyepiece
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Celestron NexStar 6SE
Current status: In stock
- Impressive Schmidt-Cassegrain design with many intelligent features
- Legendary Celestron orange colour
- Full GoTo with nearly 40,000 pre-programmed objects
- Easy to use and set up
- High-quality aluminium construction
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Celestron NexStar 8SE
Current status: In stock
- The top model of the NexStar SE series; a Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope of very high quality
- Successor to the legendary Celestron C8 orange telescope
- Works on batteries
- Full GoTo functionality with nearly 40.000 pre-programmed objects
- Easy to use and set up
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Celestron NexStar 102SLT
Current status: In stock
- Beautiful refractor telescope for beginning and advanced astronomers
- GoTo with 4000 pre-programmed objects
- Comes with CD rom with printable sky maps
- Very sturdy altazimuth tripod
- High light-gathering power
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Celestron Advanced C8-NGT
Current status: In stock
- User-friendly telescope, quality finish and many features
- Telescope tube is made of quality aluminium
- Fully computer-controlled with GoTo
- Sturdy equatorial tripod
- Aluminium-coated mirror
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Celestron NexStar 127 SLT
Current status: In stock
- Very suitable for deep-sky astronomy due its high light collection capacity
- The included erecting eyepiece enables you to do terrestrial observations
- Supplied with software featuring information on stars and astronomy
- GoTo with 4000 pre-programmed objects
- Also suitable for astrophotography
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Celestron 60LCM
Current status: In stock
- Ideal refractor for beginning astronomers
- Alt-azimuth motorised tripod
- Superb optics
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GoTo telescope
A GoTo telescope refers to a kind of telescope mount, including software that automatically points the telescope at astronomical objects selected by the user. Both axes of a GoTo-mount system are motor-driven and they are generally computer-controlled. This enables you to pre-program what you want to see!
Ease of use
The GoTo function prevents you from having to go out and search for space objects yourself. You can always be sure that you focus on the right star or planet. There is no need to adjust the telescope yourself either, this is done automatically! All in all, this is a great invention, especially for the beginning astronomer or amateur astronomer. The GoTo function enables you to find your way in space at the push of a button.
Turning on the GoTo telescope
When you activate the GoTo software, you will be asked to set the latitude, date and time. Mind you, there are models which automatically do this via a connected or built-in GPS-system.
The GoTo telescope tripod
The two types of tripods that you can use for the GoTo telescope are the alt-azimuth tripod and the parallactic tripod.
About an alt-azimuth mount on a GoTo telescope
An alt-azimuth tripod requires you to point the GoTo system at a star that you need to keep in the middle of your field of view. The entered time, location and coordinates of the star allow the system to navigate in space and find every object. When you require even more accuracy, you may use a second guiding star that needs to be very far removed from the first guiding star yet close to the object that you are looking for. You may need this certainty when the tripod is not positioned level on the ground. It is also handy to use two stars when a wrong time has been entered as this prevents the GoTo system from establishing the right coordinates.
About a Parallactic mount on a GoTo telescope
A parallactic tripod requires you to point the mount at the northern celestial pole or the southern celestial pole. If the telescope is positioned well, it will be pointed at a bright star. Then you will be asked if you want to focus it in the middle of your field of view. Using a second star will definitely benefit accuracy.
Meade, Celestron, Skywatcher & Konus
At telescopeplanet.co.uk you will mainly find GoTo-telescopes from Meade, Celestron, Skywatcher & Konus. The GoTo-system is supplied as an adaptor (hand-computer) on a cord that is very easy to use.