The new BRESSER Messier 12" Dobson enhances this well-liked telescope series while providing great portability due to its lightweight fibreglass telescope tube.
The telescope offers a variety of functions as well as quality that you would not find in considerably more expensive devices. Thanks to the powerful telescope aperture of 305 mm, you get significantly more light-gathering capacity than with the smaller models and are therefore not limited to observing the moon and the planets of our solar system - you can already look far out into the universe and observe globular clusters, nebulae and galaxies with even greater brightness. Details become visible in most deep-sky objects: globular clusters are clearly resolved into individual stars and gas nebulae, which can only be guessed at with smaller devices, show structure.
The device is unrivalled in its versatility: The excellent large Hexafoc focuser has an aperture of 65 mm - so there is no noticeable obstruction from the focuser tube even with large wide-field eyepieces.
Thanks to the large altitude wheels, even these heavier eyepieces are held effortlessly. And if a particularly large number of accessories is attached, such as a binocular attachment, then the entire tube can be moved inside the tube clamps - and everything is balanced again in a flash. The unrivalled rigidity of the focuser makes focusing easy - so photography with this tube is also possible.
This is another strength of this universal telescope: if you want to take photos, you can simply unscrew the altitude wheels from the tube and attach it to an equatorial mount using a dovetail bar - so there's nothing standing in the way of astrophotography. An optional 10:1 gear reduction for the focuser is available for the highest demands. Considering that the focuser is the most frequently used part of the telescope, the use of the Hexafoc in this device is a quantum leap for this price range.
With the initial equipment, you can start observing immediately - a 6x30 finder and a 25 mm SPL eyepiece are included in the scope of delivery.
In addition, the new 12" BRESSER Messier makes it easy to transport the device as compactly as possible - the rocker box can be dismantled in a few simple steps because the parts are assembled with metal quick-release connectors. This quickly turns a bulky rocker box into a handy flat package of individual parts.
FEATURES
- Type: Reflector telescope
- Lightweight but very stable GRP telescope tube
- Primary mirror diameter: 12" (305 mm) parabolic main mirror
- Focal length: 1,525 mm
- Aperture ratio: f/5
- Magnification: 610x
- Theor. resolving power: 0.45 arcseconds
- Easy to balance the tube by sliding it inside the tube rings
- Visual limiting magnitude: 14.5 mag
- Tube: GRP tube with adjustable tube rings and aluminium altitude bearings
- Focuser: 2.5" HEXAFOC focuser with 2" and 1 1/4" adapter
- Shifting-free focusing even with heavy accessories
- Mount: Dobsonian system
- Accessory tray
- Eyepiece: Bresser Super Plössl 25 mm (1 1/4")
- Viewfinder: 6x30 viewfinder
- Tube weight without accessories: 16 kg
- Tube weight with accessories: 18.9 kg
- Rocker box weight: 14.8 kg
- Total weight: 33.7 kg
- Overall dimensions: 60 x 60 x 163 cm
