
Skywatcher Heritage 5" Tabletop Dobsonian Telescope
The Skywatcher Heritage 5" Tabletop Dobsonian is a cute, table top style Dobsonian Telescope that offers surprising insight into the dark skies. For any beginner, this telescope will 'wow' with how much you can see through 5-inch telescope. Expect to see the Moon and it's lunar detail through this trusty tube, and when you're done for the night, its compact, lightweight design makes it easy to store.
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This Skywatcher Heritage 130 Table Top Dobsonian Telescope (P130) is also affectionately billed, the Heritage P130. Produced by Skywatcher as a tribute to the early astronomers who have gone before. This collectable is also a gift to all little astronomers with enough wonder and curiousity to look up.
This 5" aperture tube is small, but features a collapsible clasp in the middle so it becomes even smaller than some binoculars! It is a collapsible truss-tube design that requires zero assembly or collimation. It's aluminized paraboloidal mirrors projects so much light to provide sharp and detailed images. Oh, and guess what? This performer weighs 6.5kg in all, collapses to a tiny tube that you can store away extremely easily!
The Skywatcher Heritage 130 Table Top Dobsonian Telescope (P130) is an excellent start for young astronomers, a fantastic all-round piece for astronomical viewing.
Full Specifications
Optical Tube Assembly (OTA) |
Optical Design | Newtonian |
Aperture | 130mm |
Focal Length | 650mm |
Focal Ratio | f/5 |
Included Eyepiece | Super 10mm (65x), Super 25mm (26x Magnification) |
Finderscope | Red Dot |
Focuser | Helical 1.25″ |
Highest Useful Magnification | 260x |
Limiting Stellar Magnitude | 13.6 |
Secondary Mirror Diameter | 39.8mm |
Resolving Power | 0.92" |
Mount |
Mount Type | Dobsonian |
Warranty | 5 Year Warranty |
About Sky-Watcher
Contemporary telescope-making has advanced the simple optical designs early scopes to revolutionary, state of the art. The Sky-Watcher company believes Telescopes of quality make should no longer be expensive, but accessible to everyone. Sky-Watcher philosophy has always been to bring the vast wonders of the skies within reasonable reach of anyone with enough curiosity and courage to look up and imagine. Sky-Watcher scopes come in a large range of observational applications - from 10"Dobsonians to spotting scopes for land use.
Product Code: SWDOB130
Optical Design | Newtonian Reflector |
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Aperture | 130mm |
Focal Length | 650mm |
Focal Ratio | 5.0 |
Highest Practical Magnification | 260x |
Faintest Stellar Magnitude | 13.6 |
Resolving Power | 0.92" |
Mount Type | Dobsonian mount |
Motor Drive | No |
Dovetail Type | Vixen |
Eyepiece 1 | Super 25mm - 1.25" |
Eyepiece 2 | Super 10mm - 1.25" |
Finderscope Make | Red Dot |
Tube Length | 370mm (collapsed) |
Autoguide Port | No |
Electronic Hand Control | No |
Warranty Information | 5 Years |
Item | Qty |
Skywatcher 5" Table Top Dobsonian Telsecope | 1 |
Red Dot Finder | 1 |
Super 25mm and Super 10mm Eyepieces | 1 |