The Skywatcher 70/500 Solar Scope with Helio Mount is a user-friendly Solar Scope that takes the hassle out of trying to find the sun. Featuring a 70mm aperture and a 500mm focal length (f/7.1), this telescope provides bright, detailed views of the Sun’s surface, including sunspots and solar granulation. The SolarQuest is mounted on a revolutionary SolarQuest Helio mount that automatically finds the sun with just a push of a button due to its integrated GPS sensor and built-in solar finder. If the tripod is moved, you just have to restart the calibrating process and the SolarQuest will realign itself with the Sun. 

Features 

• Built-in GPS & 3 axis accelerator enhance the accuracy of alignment
• Automatic solar alignment
• Lightweight
• Great for beginners
• Eight-way slide switch provides smooth slewing to centre the sun in the eyepiece
• Observe the sun during the day

WARNING: The SolarQuest mount is designed to work with the attached solar telescopes ONLY. Do not point other types of optical device at the sun; looking directly at the sun without a certified filter will cause immediate and irreversible damage to the eyes or instrument.

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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: SWSOLAR-H