Name: SkyWatcher 80/600 Black Diamond Refractor (Need Legs)
Brand: Sky-Watcher
SKU: SWBDED80OTA
Price: 1148.85 AUD
Availability: InStock

SkyWatcher 80/600 Black Diamond Refractor (Need Legs)

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12 Month Australian Warranty
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Modestly Wide-Field Telescope
Suitable for Deep Sky Astrophotography
Light Baffled Optical System
Metallic High-Transmission Lens Coating
Suitable for Time Lapse, Wide View and Panoramas Photography

Skywatcher Telescopes - The Company
In late 1999 the Skywatcher brand was born in Canada. Today Skywatcher is recognised as being one of the world's largest telescope suppliers. With a mission statement like the following, it is no wonder they are one of the world's biggest brands for night gazing.

'We believe that beginners’ first scopes should be not only affordable, but also of the highest quality. Looking through a telescope for the first time is a magical moment and we believe in magic! We're called “Sky-Watcher”: our desire is to see the world-wide community of sky watchers grow, until, one day, every person in the world can be a part of our community!

About This Mount

The Black Diamond 80 ED is a modestly wide-field telescope offering bright, wide swaths of sky in a single view. It is well suited for wide-field astronomical observation of prominent nebulae, star clusters, and galaxies from a dark-sky location, or can be used as an astrograph for sky photography. As a terrestrial spotting scope or telephoto lens, the Black Diamond 80 ED’s performance is absolutely superb. Ultra high contrast allows the subtlest of details to be easily scrutinized under conditions of good seeing. The petite silhouette of the Black Diamond 80 ED makes for an excellent compact, portable telescope that travels light and fits in a small space. At about 50-power structural detail becomes apparent in our solar system’s gas giants like Saturn and Jupiter. The Moon also exhibits striking crater detail along the lunar terminator.

Metallic High-Transmission Lens Coatings
Each air-to-glass lens surface has exotic anti-reflection metallic coatings applied to ensure optimum light through-put of approaching 99.5%. The proprietary Sky-Watcher “Metallic High-Transmission Coatings” (MHC) are the finest photon anti-rejection coatings in their class.

Light-Baffled Optical Systems
The objective lens cell is light-baffled to reject stray, unfocused light. The draw tube is likewise baffled to insure optimum contrast. The tube interior is flat blackened to help prevent unfocused internal light reflections from reaching the focal plane.

Precision 2” Dual Speed Crayford Focuser is Standard
Optical focus is achieved by means of a mechanically ultra-smooth, backlash-free, precision 2” Dual Speed Crayford Focuser-assembly. This focuser offers fine and ultra-fine focusing adjustments.

Tube Materials
The optical tube material is rolled steel, powder-coated reflective gloss black with gold fleck accent. The front and back cells are cast-aluminum painted white, or black.

Telescope Tube Attachment Hardware:
The optical tube comes with attachment hardware that allows it to be securely fastened to any Sky-Watcher mount. The quick-release tube rings provided with Black Diamond 80 ED are cast-aluminium, painted white.

Included Components for Selected Models*
Black Diamond 80 ED is supplied with 2” Dual Speed Crayford Focusers and quality foam-lined aluminium carrying cases as standard equipment.

Peace of Mind Purchase Guarantee & Declaration of Warranty
This product is supplied directly via Skywatcher Australia and enjoys the FULL benefits of the 'Skywatcher full 12 month AUSTRALIAN WARRANTY'. (You may also be entitled to other consumer warranties as provided by the Australian Consumer Guarantee and these entitlements are not limited by this warranty). In the event that this product should fail please contact our service department to arrange service for this product or you also have the option of speaking with Skywatcher Australia directly.

We are a FULLY AUTHORISED Australian retailer for Skywatcher Australia.

This product will be shipped from our Sydney Warehouse. This product is NOT DROP SHIPPED from overseas.

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