Applauded as the "DREAM TELESCOPE" by SkyNews magazine.

"Sky-Watcher’s GoTo Dobsonian High-tech meets bargain-telescope design. A shotgun marriage or a match made in heaven? We find out!"

"Could the new Sky-Watcher SynScan telescopes really work? ...my doubts were allayed the first night out.Our test telescope,on loan from Pacific Telescope Corp., worked great. Surprisingly so."

• Alan Dyer wrote in his 3-page review of the Sky-Watcher GoTo Dobsonian telescope at SkyNews November/December 2010 issue (http://www.skynews.ca | review).

Read the 3-page article in PDF (580KB)

Pick up Chch or Masterton Warehouse usually available.

Dobsonian telescopes are so elegantly simple that absolute beginners can use them with great results. Now the new Collapsible Sky-Watcher Synscan Dobsonian offers easier portability with it's novel truss tube design, plus full GOTO and sidereal tracking.

Conventional 2 star alignment for goto using Sky-Watcher SynScan (TM) AZ Version 3.07; choice of 2 methods, you select the stars or it selects brightest stars if you dont know star names.In the first method you use a combination of manual and motorised slewing to the first star and motorised slewing to the second star. In the brightest star method you select sky segments and all slewing is motorised

42900 object library.

Jupiter image was obtained with this alignment using a DMK21 imager on the 12" model.

Starscopes offer this magnificent scope at approx. $15000 less than a basic Meade Schmidt Cassegrain 14" plus this Dob is more portable and gives much better visual images than the SCT!

One night we compared with a Celestron C14 on EQ6PRO; this Dob blew it away for stability and image quality.

Superb 14" F4.5 Parabolic mirror with 2 eyepieces:

Super Plossl 1.25" diameter eyepieces, 25mm 10mm

Crayford style SLR camera T2 mount ready 2"/1.25" focuser.

Ultra thin secondary support arms

9x50 achromatic in line finder scope

Battery case to hold 8 size C batteries.

One year warranty.