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Skywatcher's patented collapsible FlexTube system has now been combined with powerful dual-axis servo motors and encoders in the base unit for automatic slewing and tracking of celestial objects via easy handset commands.
"The hand controller can slew the telescope to almost any position you wish to go to...The telescope is really nippy and yet, despite the size of the OTA it’s moving, it is remarkably quiet...The automatic mode has a unique and patented override, which allows you to manually move the telescope to a position and retain the tracking when you get there. This in practice works incredibly well...This truss tube literally just slides into position and locks down, saving a huge amount of set-up time...For Lunar and planetary imagers this is a fantastic system once collimated, taking quite extreme levels of magnification...Views of the Moon during the Spring Moonwatch week had neighbours and family members enthralled...The tracking kept Saturn in the eyepiece view of a 12mm Plossl for a good hour...Through a 40mm wide-field eyepiece, deep sky objects like M31, M51 and some of spring’s globular clusters were jaw-dropping with impressive detail...All in all this is a great grab and go set-up, with the light grasp of some of my largest telescopes, yet it can be assembled and disassembled with lightning speed, dropping down to a size that can be put in the corner of a room or garage and lifted by just one person."Astronomy Now Magazine
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