Skywatcher 5 inch Table Top Dobsonian Telescope
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 with viewing for the night, the Skywatcher Heritage 130 Table Top Dobsonian Telescope (P130) just needs any small storage space, unlike its bulkier 6", 8" and 10" brothers and sisters!
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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.
Your Sky-Watcher product is warranted to be free of defects in materials and workmanship for one year after the date of purchase. In the event of a defect under this warranty, we will, at our option, repair or replace the product, provided that you return the product with proof of local purchase such as a receipt.
Specifications of the Skywatcher Heritage P130:
Optical Design | Newtonian (Parabolic) |
Diameter | 130mm |
Focal Length | 650mm |
Secondary Mirror Diameter | 34.5mm |
F/ratio | F/5 |
Highest Practical Power | 260x |
Faintest Steller Magnitude | 13.3 |
Resolving Power | 0.9 |
Finderscope | red dot finderscope |
Focuser diameter | 1.25” |
Diagonal | |
Eyepiece(s) | 2 eyepieces |
Mount Type | Dobsonian |
Weight | 6.5kg |
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: SKW-SWDOB130
Optical Design | Newtonian Reflector |
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Aperture | 130mm |
Focal Length | 650mm |
Focal Ratio | 5.0 |
Highest Magnification | 260x |
Faintest Stellar Magnitude | 13.6 |
Resolving Power | 0.92" |
Mount Type | Dobsonian mount |
Dovetail Type | Vixen |
Eyepiece 1 | Super 25mm |
Eyepiece 2 | Super 10mm |
Finderscope Make | Red Dot |
Tube Length | 370mm (collapsed) |
Electronic Hand Control | No |
Motor Drive | 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 |