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List Price : $296.95 Price : $219.00
List Price : $296.95 Price : $219.00
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.
- 900mm x 4.5", Reflector
- LED electronic red dot finderscope for fast positioning
- Large, 1.25" diameter eyepieces
- Sturdy, preassembled construciton
Bushnell Voyager Sky Tour 114mm Reflector Telescope Reviews
Bushnell Voyager Sky Tour 114mm Reflector Telescope Reviews
| 38 of 39 people found the following review helpful:  It's underwhelming, By This review is from: Bushnell Voyager Sky Tour 114mm Reflector Telescope (Electronics) As a proficient amateur astronomer, I was given an opportunity to play with this telescope at a friends house. My conclusion: it's not worth the money. Here's why: - only the azimuth axis has fine-tuning, there is NO fine tuning on the altitude axis! This is a serious design flaw which makes tracking any celestial object difficult to impossible. (the telescope has an alt-azi mount, not an equitorial mount). - the telescope is unbalanced, i.e. when the altitude brake is released the telescope immediately drops the mirror end and points upwards. It requires support by hand to guide the telescope to the correct altitude. - the tripod is light weight and has poor (as in no) vibration dampening properties. Combined with the akward distribution of weight in the telescope, any time you touch the telescope it vibrates wildly without settling down quickly (any gust of wind was easily detectible). - the supporting eye-pieces are poor, they include 12.5, 9... Read more 10 of 11 people found the following review helpful: I agree w/ Bones, By VtwinDude (Margaritaville, St. Somewhere) - See all my reviews This review is from: Bushnell Voyager Sky Tour 114mm Reflector Telescope (Electronics) I'm not even qualified to call myself an "amatuer" astronomer, but can easilly spot the flaws in the scope. I recieved it as a gift, and am sad it can't be returned. The biggest pain is that it's not balanced and has no elevation fine tuning. When you loosen the knob to change the elevation the telescope rapidly falls and points straight up! Pretty tough to find anything when you're constantly having to hold the telescope from falling and looking through the cheap plastic viewfinder at the same time! Do yourself a favor and look elsewhere! |
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