"We thoroughly enjoyed our time with the Acuter Solarus 80 solar telescope and mount outfit....This isn't a telescope for observing prominences or the Sun's delicate surface details, but for sunspots it performed brilliantly....the price point and viewing experience prove this is an excellent starter set. With or without the mount option, the Acuter Solarus 80 shouldn't gather dust: it's rewarding and convenient enough to return to time and time again."
BBC Sky At Night Magazine
The exiting Acuter Solarus-80 is an 80mm solar telescope with a safe, permanently-mounted white light solar filter of glass construction. which is useful for many different aspects of white light solar observing, including the observation of sunspots, solar eclipses, solar surface details & the transit of inner planets across the Sun.
Features a built-in rotating filter wheel, complete with pre-installed filters to allow the Sun to be viewed in different colours. Supplied with a universal smartphone camera adaptor to take photos using your smartphone, to keep a photographic record of your observations.
the Acuter Solarus-80 conforms to and meets the transmission requirements of ISO 12312-2:2015 (Filters for the direct observation of the Sun). Always use in accordance with the instructions.
The outfit includes a technologically innovative Auto-Tracking Solar Go-To/Auto-Tracking Mount mount. The clever mount is extremely user-friendly and provides a safe experience for automatically locating and observing the sun with your telescope. Just roughly level the tripod and point the solar telescope anywhere to the left of the sun and let the Solar Alignment Technology automatically do the rest!! At the single push of a button, the telescope will be auto-levelled and the mount via GPS data fixing will calculate the altitude of the sun based on the time and location. The telescope will then be pointed to the correct altitude and the mount will slew clockwise hunting for the Sun. The Solar Sensor will detect the sun and lock onto it, and will silently track and keep it within the eyepiece's field of view indefinitely.
The Acuter Solarus-80 Solar Telescope & Auto-Tracking Solar Mount Outfit can be used by educational establishments, beginners and experienced observers alike.
ACUTER SOLARUS-80 SOLAR TELESCOPE OTA SPECIFICATION:
- Built-in Permanently Mounted White Light Solar Filter
- Objective Lens Diameter: 80mm (Multi-Coated)
- Telescope Focal Length: 400mm (f/5)
- Eyepiece Supplied: Fixed 5-16mm Zoom Eyepiece, adjustable in 5mm, 10mm & 16mm stages
- Magnifications: x80, x40 & x25
- Safe Solar Finder
- Universal Smartphone Adaptor (smartphone not supplied)
- Filter Wheel, Pre-loaded with Red, Yellow, Blue, Green, Orange & ND (Neutral Density) Filters, with handy In-Use Filter Indicator. Includes one empty slot for filterless viewing
- 90º Diagonal for comfortable viewing (non-rotatable)
- Crayford Focuser (non-Rotatable)
- 45mm Vixen-Type Dovetail Bar with 1/4"-20 Tripod Threads (Side Mounted)
- Telescope Length: 378mm
- Telescope Weight: 1.75kg
ACUTER AUTO-TRACKING SOLAR MOUNT SPECIFICATION
- Patented Solar Alignment Technology: Solar Sensor with 4 x Photodiodes & built-in GPS data fixing to obtain time & location to calculate the sun's azimuth and altitude
- Telescope Auto-levelling feature with the help of the built-in tilt sensor (3 x axis accelerometer in the sensor block).
- Auto drift correction through feedback from Solar Sensor
- Auto Pointing Offset Correcting Feature
- 8-Way Sliding Switch for Centring Sun in Field of View
- Tracking Rates: Alignment-Free Solar Tracking
- Pointing Accuracy: Up to 3 arc-minute (after customer calibration)
- Resolution: 2073600 Counts/Rev., 0.625 arc-second
- Slewing Speeds: 16x & 1200x
- Tracking Mode: Dual Axis Tracking
- Motor: DC Servo Motor, Gear Ratio 6480
- Payload Capacity: 4kg
- 45mm Sky-Watcher/Vixen type dovetail saddle
- 3/8" Screw Fittings (tripod/mount)
- Adjustable Aluminium Tripod with Accessory Tray
- Bubble Level
- Height of Tripod/Mount: 80.5cm - 152cm
- Mount Head Weight: 1.3kg
- Total Weight with Tripod: 4.05kg
- Low Power Consumption
- Power Requirement: 8 AA Size Batteries (not supplied)
- Supplied with 12v power adaptor interface so an external 12v DC Power Supply (Tip Positive) can be used
