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 Distinguished Brands:Top Orion SkyQuest Series Telescope

The Orion SkyQuest XT4.5 Classic is the perfect beginner telescope of the dobsonian kind. Although it is petite when placed next to the more professional reflectors in this product range, you will most likely be floored by the strength it demonstrates when placed next to your 60mm refractor. Indeed, it is 260 times more powerful! You can slew Mars, Saturn and track some great crater-filled sights of the moon. The XT4.5 is perfect for your children, and if you're excited about the outdoors, pack it along on camping trips.

A major step up from the 4.5", the XT6 sends you 80X more light than the XT4.5. The thing people will often tell you is that it's best not to spend less than $300 on a telescope. The 6" destroys this rule. Toss out the 60mm; the 6" mirror makes for an excellent 1st or 2nd telescope. The Skyquest 6" comes with an additional option, the Intelliscope. This add-on allows you to travel the sky by way of a computerized system.

Introducing the Orion XT8. This is powerful enough telescope to capture the ice caps on Mars and a catalogue of other attractions with flare. The 8" also has a price that is well positioned at just over $300. This telescope is also stocked with two laudable upsells, the Intelliscope (as outlined in the paragraph on the Orion XT6) and the GoTo box, which actually slews the telescope with use of a mechanical system. The GoTo system makes the 8" a wonderful starter scope for astrophotography.

The Orion XT10 is the most robust of the enameled steel tube dobsonians and is also the most impressive. Any larger and you couldn't stuff it in your trunk! The Orion XT10 is a luminous sky tracker that eats up the light rays and it will undoubtedly give you looks when you lay it out on camping trips. It is also very well priced within the $500 mark. A lot of astronomers with this kind of budget will forgo picking up a larger telescope for the GoTo improvement that marks this as a fantastic scope for astrophotography.

The 12" mirror marks the end of the enameled tube-based telescopes and announces the bar-based truss. The reason for this will be undeniable when you think of lifting this larger telescope. Having it as a solid tube would create problems when moving it in and out of rooms. The bar-truss system reduces this problem. The Orion XX12 has incredible optics and is truly a night gazer that can view star nurseries and gas clouds with ease. The telescope is installed with either the Intelliscope or the GoTo encoder.

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