Celestron Astromaster 130EQ Astronomy Telescope

The Celestron Astromaster 130EQ is a Newtonian reflector telescope, ideal for beginners it has a large 130mm aperture (345x more light gathering power than the human eye) and produces bright clear images of the moon, planets, and stars. A firm favourite for many years with those that are new to astronomy, this 130EQ model has been one of the best-selling and best value for money astronomy telescopes on the market, take a look at the in-depth user reviews and find out why. What can you see with the Celestron Astromaster 130EQ astronomy telescope, expect bright detailed images of our moon, see the moons of Jupiter plus the rings of Saturn and much more.

The Astromaster 130EQ offers a simple, fast no-tool setup, it features a manual German equatorial (EQ) mount with setting circles to locate and track sky objects. The Astromaster EQ mount comes with two slow motion control knobs that allow you to make fine pointing adjustments to the telescope in both Right Ascension and Declination axes, also referred to as RA and DEC. Supporting the telescope is an adjustable, full height steel tripod with an accessory tray, also included to get you started is a 20mm and 10mm eyepiece. The 20 mm eyepiece has a built-in erect image corrector, this means that the image you view is corrected to the right way up, making this eyepiece and telescope useful for terrestrial viewing as well as astronomy. Also included is a useful red-dot finderscope, this is a smaller optical telescope, it offers a much wider field of view to help you easily find objects in the night sky before actually viewing them through your main telescope, this must be aligned accurately to your telescope before use.

Starry Night Software: Download Celestron’s included Starry Night Software (premier astronomy software package) and learn about the night sky solar system and how to plan your next astronomy night.