SkyWatcher 406/1800 DOB 16" GOTO telescope

16-inch (406 mm) diameter Dobsonian telescope with GOTO system and 40,000 objects in the database The Sky-Watcher GT telescope series on the Dobsonian mount are high-precision optical instruments equipped with a built-in GOTO SynScan automatic guidance system. Thanks to their powerful aperture, telescopes of this type are perfect for visual observations of all objects in the starry sky, and thanks to the extendable construction of the tube, the telescope - despite its powerful mirror - can fit in any passenger car and be taken to our favorite observation spot. The telescope tube is transported as a whole - there is no need to disassemble the tube into parts. The entire telescope is transported in two parts - the folded (pushed) telescope tube and the Dobsonian box mount. Such a telescope, after being extended, may only require gentle collimation. The telescope is easier to operate thanks to the patented Sky-Watcher pressure adjustment in the height axis. Telescopes with the GOTO system are equipped with the SynScan AZ controller, which allows for extremely simple setting of the telescope in any direction of the sky and automatic searching of objects from the database built into the control unit. The user-friendly menu allows for quick selection of one of the 42,900 objects saved in the system memory, and after selection, the guiding system will automatically set the selected object in the telescope's field of view. Thanks to the use of special encoders, it is possible to manually rotate the telescope without the need to re-set the GOTO system. The telescope is an excellent combination of the advantages of large Dobsonians with the convenience of using a GOTO telescope. Observation capabilities of the telescope A telescope with a primary mirror diameter of 16 inches (i.e. over 40 cm) is practically the largest piece of equipment available to amateur astronomy enthusiasts in the world of amateur instruments - larger instruments are practically exclusively stationary, require a permanent observation site and a dome, and are usually beyond the financial reach of many. A telescope this large allows for the most advanced visual observations available to amateur observers. It is difficult to list all the observation possibilities - so let's list only the most important ones: • craters on the moon, shadows on impact craters, incredible detail and plasticity • phases of Mercury and Venus, Venus belts with good atmospheric stability • ice caps on Mars are perfectly visible (it is worth buying red, orange and yellow filters) • the structure of Jupiter's belts - both "tropical" and circumpolar, the Great Red Spot, four Jupiter moons, the shadows of the moons on the surface of Jupiter's disk • Saturn's ring with the Cassini and Encke divisions, belts, the ring's shadow on the planet's disk • the shields of Uranus and Neptune, certain structures in the atmosphere of these planets • asteroids • comets - icy blocks that travel through our Solar System - the telescope can serve as a powerful "comet finder" • hundreds of double, multiple and variable stars, including observations of scientific value • several thousand Deep Sky objects, including all from Messier's catalogue, as well as most of NGC, IC and Caldwell's catalogues; it is difficult to count them, because it is not about quantity, but about quality of obtained images - thus, there will be visible open clusters, such as the Manger in Cancer, hi chi in Perseus or Ptolemy's Cluster in Scorpius, globular clusters (M13 broken down to 1/2 diameter into individual stars, or M53 in Coma Berenices), gas-dust nebulae (perfectly visible structure of M42 in Orion, North America in Cygnus), galaxies (M31 in Andromeda with two satellite galaxies, i.e. M32 and M110), as well as Veil in Cygnus or famous Ring (M57) in Lyra and many, many more.