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Celestron Edge 6-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope on an Alt-Az Mount and Tripod
$150.00
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This Celestron Evolution 6-inch SCT telescope is on a manual Alt-Az mount and tripod. It includes a red-dot finder and a 25 mm eyepiece.
Note: This optical tube is from Celestron’s Evolution line of go-to scopes, but it does not include an original computerized mount.
- Optical design: Schmidt-Cassegrain
- Aperture: 150 mm (6 inches)
- Focal Length: 1500 mm (60 inches)
- Star diagonal: 1.25-inch
- Crown optical glass primary mirror
- StarBright XLT optical coatings: Multilayer aluminum/SiO2 (quartz)/TiO2 (titanium dioxide) mirror coatings with flat reflectivity across the light spectrum for both astrophotography/imaging and visual observation
- Multilayer MgF2 (magnesium fluoride) and HfO2 (hafnium dioxide) antireflective lens coatings
- High-transmission water white glass corrector lens with 97.4% light transmission
- Internal focusing mechanism
- Resolution: 0.93 arcsec (Rayleigh); 0.77 arcsec (Dawes)
- Secondary mirror obstruction: 2.2 inches; 37% by diameter; 14% by area
The NexStar Evolution 6 150mm Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope from Celestron is a powerful, portable, versatile, and user-friendly telescope for observing everything from the Moon and planets to deep-sky objects like galaxies and nebulae. Using Celestron’s proprietary StarBright XLT multi-coating system, it increases light transmission throughout the optical path with antireflection multi-coated lenses, highly reflective multi-coated mirrors, and four-element rare-earth glass.