Telescope Skywatcher 1145EQ1

Description

The Sky Watcher BK1145EQ1 telescope offers an affordable price, high mobility and extensive features. It is the ideal model for entering the world of amateur astronomy and is often chosen as the first telescope. The short focal length of 500 mm enables a very large field of view, which is very helpful when searching for objects in the sky.

Optical system

Reflector telescope (Newtonian system) with an aperture of 114mm and a focal length of 500mm. The large aperture of f / 4.4 makes the telescope ideal for observing deep-sky objects such as star clusters and nebulae. It is also possible to observe the moon and planets. The telescope with this aperture can see about 190 times more light than the human eye at night, allowing observation of objects up to almost 12 magnitudes (up to 6 magnitudes are visible to the naked eye). The size of the mirror is also related to the optical resolution, which allows this telescope to separate stars that are more than 1.4″ apart.

Assembly

The EQ1 equatorial assembly is equipped with micromovements and allows the telescope to be adjusted according to the atlas or sky charts and to move smoothly along the right ascension and declination axes. The assembly should be properly adjusted and aligned with the north pole of the sky for easy and comfortable operation of the telescope.

The assembly can be equipped with a drive in one or two axes, which enables automatic tracking of objects in the sky. This means that the telescope can also be used for simple astrophotography.

Focusser:

The telescope is equipped with a focusser that allows the use of 1.25″ eyepieces. The set includes three eyepieces with focal lengths of 20, 12.5 and 4mm, which allow a magnification of 25x, 40x and 125x

Astronomical observations

1. solar system

- Objects on the lunar surface that are larger than 2 km;

- Sunspots and their structure;

- all the planets in the solar system;

- the phases of Venus

- Mars

- Jupiter's equatorial belt and the Galilean moons

-the rings of Saturn and the largest moon Titan

-Uranus and Neptune are also within range of this telescope

- Asteroid movement against the background of the stars

- Observations of bright comets

2. gwiazdy

-about 1.8 million stars in the sky, which shine up to a brightness of about 12-12.5

-Double and multiple stars that are separated from each other at an angle of more than 1.4″

- the colours of many bright stars

3. deep sky objects

-Hundreds of open star clusters

-Many globular clusters with clearly visible stars at the edge

- Dozens of galaxies, the brighter ones have a visible shape

-Many bright nebulae in which structure is already visible

- beautiful planetary nebulae