8-inch Aperture Telescope

The 8-inch Aperture Telescope has a traditional closed tube design. The design is very effective in cutting off stray light from all directions, so the views have good contrast without any light leaking from any direction into the eyepiece. The 8-inch aperture provides enough resolution to show fine details on the Solar System objects, viz. Moon, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars and other planets.

The main feature of a Dobsonian telescope is good light collection. The 8-inch telescope can show you numerous deep sky objects from dark skies. Since the telescope is highly portable, you can carry it to remote areas for deep sky observations. The fast f/5 focal ratio renders the deep sky objects relatively brighter. You can achieve sharp aberration free focus with the parabolised optics. Additionally with the use of Crayford focuser provided, you can achieve perfect focus. Crayford focusers use a toothless friction system that allows for super-fine precision focusing without backlash. The focuser accepts eyepieces of 1.25" as well as 2" standard.

Our Dobsonians feature Teflon bearings and move smoothly in both axes. The altazimuth mount is rock solid. We use marine plywood instead of popular MDF board in imported telescopes. The marine plywood covered with laminate becomes weatherproof, for a long duration, as compared to MDF which warps with dew and moisture, and becomes unusable over a short time.

The telescope comes with a Plössl eyepiece 25mm (40x), 1.25" standard. We provide the best zero power finder - Telrad, to locate objects in the sky easily.