Features:
- 70mm (2.8 inch) aperture; 700mm objective lens focal length
- Includes electronic controller for easy push-button object location and tracking
- Smooth, precise tracking with altazimuth mounting
- 2-element achromatic objective lens with multicoating
- Includes full-length, adjustable aluminum tripod
Description:
Meade's DS-70EC refracting telescope offers high-quality optics and easy push-button electronic operation, making it a perfect instrument for the serious beginner. It features a multicoated, achromatic two-element objective lens and precise, smooth altitude and azimuth movements. It includes the Meade handheld electronic controller, which allows for four-speed push-button operation and easy object location and tracking. It also includes Meade's StarNavigator software, which displays more than 10,000 celestial objects for help in locating galaxies, nebulae, star clusters, stars, and planets. Additionally, the telescope comes with a full-length adjustable aluminum tripod.The DS-70EC exhibits Meade's fine attention to detail and quality, from the precision-polished crown and flint optical glass components and contrast-increasing multicoatings, to oversize bearings on both telescope axes that facilitate great precision in tracking. It offers a resolving power of 1.6 arcseconds, a limiting visual magnitude of 11.3, a 250x maximum practical visual power, and a 5mm by 24mm viewfinder. The DS-70EC is also built to be fully compatible with Meade's Autostar computer controller, for automatic location and tracking of celestial objects.
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