Professional Quality
Isaac Newton's Telescope PROFESSIONAL DESIGN
“New Classic” optics are arranged exactly as Isaac Newton designed the first reflecting telescope in the late 1660’s.  There still isn’t a better, simpler design. Light from the stars is collected on a curved mirror at the bottom of the tube.  This mirror redirects  it to a small secondary mirror, which bounces it out the side, through the eyepiece, into your eyes.

Our mount is a variation of the “Dobsonian” mount presented to the public in the 1950's by  John Dobson, the "Star Monk."  This pied piper of astronomy has spent a lifetime making the heavens accessable to the common man. He refined the mounting principals that had been used for centuries to hold and aim cannons in order to create a steady, simple, sturdy system  for aiming telescope optics.  

Good design lasts.
PROFESSIONAL OPTICS

Our optics are carefully chosen and tested to give the best possible view of the heavens.

They provide “Diffraction-limited" imaging, giving as clear and sharp a view of the universe as the laws of physics and the nature of light will allow. Our optics vary from the ideal shape and smoothness by less than 1/8 of a wavelength of light.  This means that if the mirror were expanded to the size of Australia, then the largest ‘mountain’ or ‘valley’ defect on the surface would be no higher than a golf ball.

We conduct our own test of every mirror we use to make sure that it delivers a sharp, spectacular view.

To hold the main mirror is to behold the entire universe
in a big heavy incredibly beautiful jewel.

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PROFESSIONAL QUALITY MOUNTING

Great optics are worthless without a sturdy, steady, smoothly operating mount. Ours is specifically designed to steadily and precisely hold the optics in order to deliver breathtakingly sharp views of the universe.  

The mount turns on a solid 24 inch base that is over 1 1/4 inch thick. The two risers are reinforced with butresses connected by an integrated eyepiece holder/ carrying handle. This reinforcement guarantees a stiff telescope support system that allows the telescope tube to freely rotate all the way through the mount.

Ball shaped Lip-Lock™ adjusters stand at the top of each buttress allowing precise set-and-forget tracking adjustments, eliminating irritating backlash tube movement after aquiring a target

All bearing surfaces are classic Ebony Star Formica riding smoothly on slabs of pure Teflon carefully sized to equalize friction. This allows you to easily track the heavens with a gentle, even, buttery-smooth push on the tube, in any direction
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