Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Bushnell 789961 Voyager Sky Tour 700mm x 60mm Refractor Telescope


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Bushnell 789961 Voyager Sky Tour 700mm x 60mm Refractor Telescope

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BUSHNELL 789961 Voyager Sky Tour 700mm x 60mm Refractor Telescope

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Bring the wonders of the galaxy straight to your backyard with the Bushnell Astronomical Voyager with Sky Tour 700mm x 60mm refractor telescope. The ultimate first telescope, the Voyager Sky Tour series gives amateur stargazers a pro-grade audio tour of the night sky. The telescope is equipped with a computer-driven Illuminated Smart Mount that points the way to various constellations and planets, along with a talking handset that keeps you engaged with entertaining facts and mythology tidbits. In essence, the telescope gives you a real-time tour of the galaxy. Keeping pace with the tour is easy thanks to the LED red dot finderscope, which enables fast positioning. And with a 700mm focal length and two 1.25-inch-diameter eyepieces, the Voyager telescope gets you closer to the heavens than ever before. Whether you're a curious beginner or a seasoned observer, the Voyager lineup is the easiest way to jumpstart your love for stargazing.

Specifications

  • Focal length: 700mm
  • Refractor: 60mm
  • Mount: Illuminated Smart Mount
  • Eyepieces: 8mm, 12.5mm
  • Magnifications: 56x, 88x

About Bushnell
Bushnell has been the industry leader in high-performance sports optics for more than 50 years. The company's guiding principle is to provide the highest quality, most reliable, and most affordable sports optics products on the market. Bushnell product lines enhance the enjoyment of every outdoor pursuit, including nature study, hunting, fishing, birding, and stargazing. Indoors, the company's binoculars bring the audience closer to the action in fast-moving sports or the fine arts at theaters and concerts.


  • Beginner telescope with 700mm focal length and 60mm refractor
  • Illuminated Smart Mount points the way to constellations and planets
  • Talking handset keeps you engaged with facts and mythology tidbits
  • LED red dot finderscope for fast positioning; sturdy preassembled construction
  • Two 1.25-inch eyepieces (8mm, and 12.5mm); quick-release tripod
  • 700mm x 60mm refractor telescope
  • Illuminated smart mount
  • LCD handset
  • LED red dit finder scope for fast positioning
  • Sturdy preassembled construction


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Posted by Artist at 7:37 PM 0 comments

Bushnell Voyager Sky Tour 60mm Reflector Telescope


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List Price : $176.95 Price : $149.99
Bushnell Voyager Sky Tour 60mm Reflector Telescope

Product Description

The ultimate first telescope, the new Voyager® Sky Tour gives amateur stargazers a pro-grade audio tour of the night sky. Its illuminated Smart Mount points the way as the talking handset describes constellations and planets, and keeps you engaged with entertaining facts and mythology tidbits.


  • 700mm x 60mm, Refractor
  • LED electronic red dot finderscope for fast positioning
  • Large, 1.25" diameter eyepieces
  • Sturdy, preassembled construciton


Bushnell Voyager Sky Tour 60mm Reflector Telescope Reviews


Bushnell Voyager Sky Tour 60mm Reflector Telescope Reviews


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2.0 out of 5 stars Ditto - Underwhelming, May 5, 2011
This review is from: Bushnell Voyager Sky Tour 60mm Reflector Telescope (Electronics)
I agree with comments here, so I'll make mine brief. If you are going to buy a telescope for a beginner, do NOT buy this one. I should have taken this back for a reflective telescope, but it was a gift to my daughter (not from me). Ease of use and brilliance of object is everything to a young astronomer. Get something recommended for surfing the planets. Don't trust the pictures on the box, or buy it for the gadgets. Also, light collection is more important than magnification.
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Bushnell 78-9512 Deep Space 420 x 60mm Refractor Telescope


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List Price : $129.99 Price : $83.00
Bushnell 78-9512 Deep Space 420 x 60mm Refractor Telescope

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  • 420 x 60 refractor
  • Focal length: 700
  • Eyepieces: 5 20
  • Magnifications: 35 105 140 420
  • Yoke mount
  • Vertical stabilizer bar
  • Barlow
  • Erecting lens
  • Finderscope
  • Universal coding system


    • Designed for night sky and land-based viewing
    • Yoke mount and diagonal mirror
    • Quickly locate the object to be viewed with the finderscope
    • Magnification: 420x
    • Objective lens: 60mm


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    31 of 32 people found the following review helpful:
    1.0 out of 5 stars NOT a good first telescope, February 21, 2004
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    This review is from: Bushnell 78-9512 Deep Space 420 x 60mm Refractor Telescope (Electronics)
    Nothing will kill a beginning astronomer's interest quicker than this flimsy "department-store" telescope. Never buy a telescope based solely on claims like "420x!". The highest magnification this telescope can realistically provide under the best of viewing conditions is about 50-60x per inch of aperture, or 120-140 power in this case. Light-gathering ability is by far the most important consideration when purchasing a telescope. A much better choice for a first scope would be a 4-inch dobsonian mounted reflecting telescope, available for just a few more dollars; you DO get what you pay for.
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    14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
    1.0 out of 5 stars Horrible, August 18, 2005
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    This review is from: Bushnell 78-9512 Deep Space 420 x 60mm Refractor Telescope (Electronics)
    This scope is NOT a good starter scope for anyone interested in astronomy. Here's why:

    1. The objective is too small, only 60 mm, 2.36 inches, so it is too small to bring in the light necessary for even a beginning look at the universe. I suppose it is adequate for the moon, but that is it. The planets will appear as very small disks. One will be able to see Saturn's rings, but the image will be very small. Forget it for deep sky objects, clusters, galaxies, etc.

    2. The mount is an altazimuth, which will not follow the celestial object in the sky. The earth is rotating, and anyone focusing on a star or moon will quickly find the object drifting out of the field of vision. A better mount is an equatorial mount which makes it much easier to track objects.

    3. The mount will vibrate when touched, which will cause the image in the eyepiece to "shiver", which is very frustrating.

    Even for the low price, don't be enticed by... Read more
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    93 of 114 people found the following review helpful:
    4.0 out of 5 stars Perfect for stargazing on a budget, April 13, 2001
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    This review is from: Bushnell 78-9512 Deep Space 420 x 60mm Refractor Telescope (Electronics)
    Bushnell always makes quality products that are still affordable for the everyday Joe, no exception here. This is a very nice telescope and a great baragain at its price. This is a perfect way for children (or adults) to learn more about stars, planets and everything else that lies out there in the universe. I highly recommend this product. You'll be amazed at what you've been missing out there. :o)
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    • Posted by Artist at 7:36 PM 0 comments

    Bushnell 78-9518 Deep Space 675 x 4.5-Inch Reflector Telescope


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    Bushnell 78-9518 Deep Space 675 x 4.5-Inch Reflector Telescope

    Product Description

  • 675 x 4.5 reflector
  • Focal length: 900
  • Eyepieces: 4 12 20
  • Magnifications: 45 75 135 225 675
  • Equatorial mount
  • Upgradeable to 1.25 format
  • Barlow
  • Finderscope
  • Fine tracking controls
  • Counterweight
  • Universalcoding system

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    Bushnell's Deep Space Series 675 x 4.5-Inch Reflector Telescope is a classic Newtonian reflector telescope with an equatorial mount and aluminum tripod. With its 4.5-inch primary mirror, this telescope has more than double the light gathering power of 76mm reflectors, and three times more than 60mm beginner scopes. The package includes three 1.25" size eyepieces (H20mm, H12.5mm, and SR4mm), a 3x Barlow lens, and a 5x24 optical finder scope.

    Some assembly is required: I needed a Phillips screw driver and a small wrench to put the tripod together. The assembly process was not difficult, which is good because the instruction manual is not well illustrated. When I got the telescope assembled I noticed that the mirrors had become slightly misaligned during shipping. I used my own Collimation Tool to fine tune the optics. The reward for aligning the mirrors is sharp images of the moon and planets, even when I use the 4mm eyepiece for a magnification of 225x.

    Bushnell's Deep Space 4.5-inch reflector includes three eyepieces and a 3x Barlow lens. The H20 eyepiece magnifies the image by 45x, just right for viewing the lunar disk. The H12.5 eyepiece (72x) helps to zoom in on the moon and planets. When the night air is still and clear, the 3x Barlow and H20 eyepiece can be combined for 135x magnification, and the SR4 eyepiece gives 225x which is close to the maximum reasonable power for a scope this size. Unfortunately, these economy grade eyepieces have a narrow field of view and don't seem very sharp. The low power H20 eyepiece, for example, doesn't have a wide enough field of view to take in all seven bright stars of the Pleiades or Seven Sisters cluster. The good news, however, is that eyepieces are easy to upgrade. An inexpensive 25mm plossl eyepiece has double the true field of view compared to the H20 eyepiece, making it easier to find and track objects in the night sky. This simple upgrade turns the Seven Sisters into a beautiful star cluster sprinkled edge to edge with dozens of tiny stars!

    The best entry level telescopes have three qualities: decent optics, a steady mount, and good eyepieces. Bushnell's Deep Space 4.5-inch Reflector Telescope delivers two out of three at a bargain price. I suggest adding a collimation tool and at least one modern plossl eyepiece to make this a bargain you'll really enjoy. --Jeff Phillips

    Pros:

    • Low cost
    • Decent optics
    • Uses standard 1.25" eyepieces
    Cons:
    • Economy-grade eyepieces
    • Skimpy instruction manual
    • Optics may need fine tuning


    • 4.5-inch aperture mirror gathers light at up to 250 times the human eye
    • Full-length variable tripod with equatorial mount for stability and steady viewing
    • Focal ratio of f7.87, focal length of 900 mm, and magnification of 675
    • Assembled of all-metal optical tube and high-quality glass optic objectives
    • Designed for the beginning and intermediate amateur astronomer


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    13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great Purchase, March 30, 2006
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    Daniel Lim (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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    This review is from: Bushnell 78-9518 Deep Space 675 x 4.5-Inch Reflector Telescope (Electronics)
    This was a great purchase. My first telescope. I've been looking to buy one for years, but couldnt find an affordable, yet, powerful telescope. This was the one. Controls are manual, but for any novice, the training is necessary. Will probably play around with this for a few months and consider buying additional lenses and filters.
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    3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
    5.0 out of 5 stars Good value for the price, June 8, 2006
    This review is from: Bushnell 78-9518 Deep Space 675 x 4.5-Inch Reflector Telescope (Electronics)
    I have gotten it for a month. I'm very happy about it. It came with several upgrades, (1) it was 0.996 inch eyepiece, now 1.25 inch, (2) new aluminum tripod, not hardwood tripod, (3) Amazon shipped it as next-day dilivery.
    It's easy to assemble, but you have to balance the tube itself, then balance it with counter-weight. A beginner and/or intermediate astronomer should knows it. I don't see any problem. Don't lock those nuts when you move/transport it, a beginner and/or intermediate astronomer should knows it too. Not heavy, it's only a 4.5-inch.
    H type or SR type eyepiece is cheap, but you got 3 eyepieces. The similar products from Celestron only provide H20 only. The 3x borlow is not necessary when you have 3 eyepieces, H20, H12, SR4. The pratical limit for a 4.5-inch is 225x, just about the SR4. You won't gain any to use the borlow with SR4, except you could use it at daytime for a upside down image. The 675x is just an advertisement, I knew it before I... Read more
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    4 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
    1.0 out of 5 stars Not a Good Purchase for a Novice, June 7, 2006
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    E. Ecsy (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews
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    This review is from: Bushnell 78-9518 Deep Space 675 x 4.5-Inch Reflector Telescope (Electronics)
    I bought this as a gift for a friend. We spent two weeks trying to figure out why we couldn't see anything in the lens. We gave up today and returned it.

    The directions are good for putting it together, but there is NOTHING in the directions on how to use or troubleshoot. The Bushnell website and calls to their helpline were also of NO USE.

    I would NOT recommend this telescope to a novice or anyone for that matter. It was more frustration than anything!
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