A budding amateur astronomer? Want a serious power telescope you can take virtually anywhere? Or are you looking for an easy-to-use, high-quality but affordable telescope for your child? Look no further, you have found it!
The Skywatcher Heritage 130/650 Flex Dobson telescope is an extremely easy to carry, ultra-compact, featherweight astronomical telescope at a price that is far from astronomical. The tube is collapsible, allowing you to shrink the already small size even further. It's a real take-and-hold telescope, and its optical performance will impress the novice astronomer.
The heart of the Flex Dobson is the 130mm precision-machined main mirror, which unlike many entry-level telescope binoculars has a paraboloid surface rather than a sphere, so you get a nice, sharp image even at high magnifications. With such a large instrument, there is a lot to see in the night sky. The countless craters of the Moon, the ring of Saturn or the colourful clouds of Jupiter will certainly impress the observer, as will the dozens of star clusters, nebulae and galaxies that this telescope already shows up beautifully in the dark skies of the countryside.
The advantage of the classic Dobson tripod is not only portability, but also high stability. Unlike the beginners' telescopes mounted on simpler equatorial tripods, the image does not shake even at high magnifications. The total weight of the telescope (tripod plus tube) is 6 kilograms, so you can easily carry it from one end of the garden to the other, even in your hand. The tube is only 44 cm long when folded. The telescope comes with a 25 mm and a 10 mm barium eyepiece, which give magnifications of 26x and 65x respectively. Of course, by purchasing additional eyepieces or a Barlow lens, the magnification range can be extended up to 200x.
