Recognized For Superior Stability An improved Super HD Tripod supports the CGE
mount. This fully extendable tripod is made from the finest cold rolled carbon steel and can be raised
to a height of 50 inches. The tripod uses a dual leg support for maximum rigidity with an upper leg
brace to provide an outward preload and a lower leg brace providing inward tension.
TeleVue - 8mm Ethos Eyepiece 100° Apparent Field-of-View!!! Full Warranty Near New! Full Warranties Quantity Available: 2
$ 545.00
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TeleVue - 13mm Ethos Eyepiece 100° Apparent Field-of-View!!! Full Warranty Near New! Full Warranties Quantity Available: 2
$ 579.00
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Nagler Eyepieces
Concept: You may know there's a long history of naming eyepieces after their designers: Kellner,
Erfle and Plossl, to name a few. In the late 70's I designed an eyepiece sufficiently radical that I
dared attach my name to it. Even today, I must admit a little discomfort when talking about "Nagler"
eyepieces.
With "Naglers", my aim is to approach the wide angle perspective of naked eye vision, while maintaining
the highest degree of sharpness, contrast, and viewing comfort. The goal is to allow the telescope to
virtually "disappear," leaving the impact of "spacewalk" viewing. -Al Nagler
The Tack-Sharp, Long Eye-Relief 68 degree Field Eyepiece
With the Panoptic series, Tele Vue has taken the Wide-Field concept
to Nagler-like performance levels - A meaningful advance over any
eyepiece in its 68 degree field class.
The only Nager designed Plossl on the market. Larger, sharper fields
than Orthoscopic designs. Wonderful way to start with a premium
quality eyepiece at a reasonable price.
"What sets Radians apart from other long eye-relief, short-focal-length eyepieces is superb image
quality. Even discerning planetary observers who customarily choose Pl�ssl or orthoscopic designs are
switching to Radian." - Sky & Telescope, December 1999
For so many years the beginning astronomer was forced to buy a mount
that was unstable and almost useless when viewing at high power. More
often than not, the frustration of using an unstable mount resulted
in the telescope only being used for one night and being left in a
closet to collect dust. The Porta mount changes all that. It is one
of our proudest designs. The combination of smooth movement, rigid
design and stable platform makes your first use a pleasure and will
bring you back to view more and more of the night sky.
The PORTA comes equipped with two fine adjustment handles for whole
circle slow motion in both directions. It is useful for fine motion
used in searching and tracking of celestial objects. In addition it
is a great mount for terrestrial viewing. Our gear drives it make it
a simple matter to precisely track a planet or a ship on the horizon
by simply turning the elevation and or azimuth control handles. The
'World-Standard' dovetail attachment system on PORTA was developed by
Vixen. This allows the PORTA to accept various dovetail mounted
optical tubes and binoculars.
While the outsides might look similar to the standard Sphinx Mount,
the changes that have happened under the hood are huge! Incorporating
one piece hardened steel RA and DEC shafts with needle bearings
throughout, the new Sphinx D can handle a load capacity up to 50 lbs.
This now comes standard with PEC and the incredibly accurate SX
Polare Finder Scope.
Astronomers with larger optical tubes and all level of
astrophotographers are sure to feel right at home with the intuitive
controls that so many have become accustomed to with the standard
Sphinx Mount. Its 4.7″ Color LCD Display gives an exact
position against its scrolling star chart, any object is a point and
look away!
The innovative STAR BOOK hand controller offers astronomical
navigation with a large full-color LCD screen! The color screen is a
detailed star chart that acts as a navigational and GOTO guide for
the mount.
Zoom-In/Out buttons for the color star chart display also control
the motor speed. As you zoom in closer to an object on the display
screen, the motor speed automatically becomes finer and as you zoom
out the motor speed increases to cover larger distances.
Features and menu options are displayed on the large color screen
and are easily navigated with simple buttons on the controller. The
STAR BOOK is amazingly easy to use and makes the SPHINX available to
a wide range of ages and experience levels.
