60AZ Starter Telescope

Ideal for the younger or beginner astronomer to view bright objects in detail, the 60AZ Starter Telescope has a lightweight frame and an easy set up making it quick to get started. Add a moon filter and the Discover the Night Sky Set and throw your own star party!

• Ideal for land or astronomical use
• Has slow motion controls for smooth tracking of objects through the sky
• Includes 2 eyepieces and a 2x barlow lens.
• The included compass is useful when using star charts to locate items in the night sky.
• Includes a rugged tripod with steel legs that provides a rigid and stable platform. It is also light and portable enough to easily move to a different viewing site.
• Includes a moon map so you can identify craters and moon mountains!

• The moon, including details of craters
• Jupiter and Saturn, with detail becoming visible in good viewing conditions
• Good for terrestrial viewing too - view ships in the distance, watch whales swimming in the ocean, and view landscape scenery up close.

General Features:

• 60mm Refractor Telescope with an Alt-Azimuth Mount
• Quick and easy setup
• Permanently mounted Cross-hair finderscope
• Accessory tray for convenient storage of accessories
• Equipped with slow motion controls for smooth tracking of objects through the sky
• Erect image optics, meaning that the image seen is the right way up and will appear to the viewer as a mirror image. This is ideal for terrestrial as well as astronomical use.
• Includes 2 eyepieces and a 2x barlow lens. 35x (70x with the barlow) for the 20mm eyepiece, and 56x (112x with the barlow) for the 12.5mm eyepiece.
• Rugged tripod with steel tube legs provides a rigid and stable platform. It is also light and portable enough to easily move to a different viewing site.

Did You Know...?
The moon is Earth's only known natural satellite, and is the fifth largest satellite in the solar system. It is a quarter the diameter of Earth but only 1/81 of its mass.

• Optical Design: Refractor
• Aperture: 60mm
• Focal Length:700mm
• Eyepiece 1: 20mm (35x magnification)
• Eyepiece 2: 12.5mm (56x magnification)
• Mount: Alt-Azimuth
• Weight: 2.2 kg
• Finderscope: Cross-hair finderscope
• Star Diagonal: erecting diagonal
• Highest useful magnification: 168x
• Limiting stellar magnitude: 11.16

• TELESCOPES, What do all the features mean?
• Refractor: Bends the light to your eye using lenses.
• Reflector: Reflects the light to your eye using mirrors.
• Catadioptric: Use a combination of mirrors and lenses to get the light to your eye e.g. Maksutov-Cassegrain and Schmidt-Cassegrain.
• Alt-azimuth mount: A simple mount that allows movement in altitude (up and down) and in azimuth (side to side).
• Focal Length: The higher the focal length, the higher the magnification.
• Eyepiece: A small tube that contains the lenses needed to focus the image from the telescope to the eye. The size of the eyepiece affects the magnification. High number = lower magnification. Low number = higher magnification.
• Magnification: A calculation of the focal length of the telescope ÷ the eyepiece. E.g. Focal length of 130EQ is 650mm with a 10mm eyepiece the magnification is 65x.
• Aperture: The size of the main lens or mirror that collects light in your telescope. Usually the first number in the description of the telescope.
• Barlow Lens: When placed in front of the normal eyepiece, it increases the magnification of the normal eyepiece.
• Diagonal Eyepiece: A mirror or prism system that changes that changes the angle and orientation of the light rays coming from the telescope to the eyepiece.
• Erecting Eyepiece: Flips the image coming from the telescope to right side up and will appear to the viewer as a mirror image.
• Finderscope: A low power (or zero power) scope attached parallel to the main telescope, which provides easy telescope aiming and object locating.