Bushnell Voyager Sky Tour 114mm Reflector Telescope

  Bushnell Voyager Sky Tour 114mm Reflector Telescope

Bushnell Voyager Sky Tour 114mm Reflector Telescope




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Monday, March 30, 2015

Bushnell Voyager Bushnell Voyager Sky Tour 70mm Reflector Telescope

Bushnell Voyager Bushnell Voyager Sky Tour 70mm Reflector Telescope

I have this telescope and completely recommend buying something different (I also have other telescopes, fortunately).

The telescope itself is about average for a low end refractor. The lens isn't up to astronomical standards, and the included eyepieces are just OK. It is the mount that is completely useless.

Let me describe the points:
The Telescope is an f11 telescope, which isn't bad, but I don't believe there are any coatings on the main lens to reduce chromatic aberration, so bright objects will have colorful halos.

The eyepieces are 1.25 inch diameter and that's good. If you wanted, or already have them, you can use really good eyepieces with the telescope. With the uncoated objective lens, that might be a waste of effort.

Those are the good points.

The mount (the head on the top of the tripod) is poorly designed. There are detents in the vertical axis (called altitude) that prevent you from pointing at certain angles easily. The telescope will prefer to click up or down to the next detent. That is unacceptable. The problem doesn't exist in the horizontal axis (azimuth).

The tripod is cheaply made and may not be stable enough to use, but it was hard to tell with the limits imposed by the mount.

The telescope comes with an audio tour guide. Setting the time and date should allow you to hear a "tour" of the objects currently visible. Setting the time and date are really painful and the descriptions, while moderately interesting weren't really very informative. That might not be a problem for a raw beginner, but the raw beginner is going to have so many other issue with this telescope that this doesn't help. For anyone more than a raw beginner, the sky tour doesn't offer much. 


Bushnell Voyager Bushnell Voyager Sky Tour 70mm Reflector Telescope

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