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Sky-Watcher, USA GreatStart 90AR-AZ3 Refractor Telescope
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The Sky-Watcher GreatStart 90AR-AZ3 90mm refractor telescope sports optics big enough to show you not only the Moon and planets, but deep-space objects as well, like the Orion Nebula and Andromeda Galaxy!
- Telescope package includes two 1.25" Super Plossl eyepieces, and a Barlow lens that will double the magnification.. for a total of FOUR choices!
- The Sky-Watcher GreatStart 90AR-AZ3 alt-azimuth mount is very sturdy, with a metal mount body and gear assembly.
- Included slow-motion controls are flex-steel, and the tripod is aluminum.
- The Sky-Watcher GreatStart 90AR-AZ3 package includes a red dot finder, allowing you to zero in on objects in a snap, and planetarium software for your PC!
- Save $20 in INSTANT rebates when you buy this telescope for a limited time! Price shown already includes instant rebate deduction.
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Sky-Watcher GreatStart 90mm Refractor on AZ3 Alt-Azimuth Mount
Trust us for expert advice and quality workmanship regarding your telescope purchase just as you would your physician, or accountant for their services. Knowing what makes a truly positive difference in an introductory telescope is the genesis of GreatStart. The GreatStart line has been painstakingly designed from the ground up to provide the absolute very best experience your money can buy from an entry level instrument. Not all telescopes are created equal. GreatStart telescopes are better. A lot better! In fact, they are the best in their class from under $100 to $250. With Sky-Watcher and OPT you have a friend in the telescope business. Check this out...
This 90mm aperture entry level refractor offers dramatically increased detail gathering capability combined with ultra high contrast imaging for exquisite planetary, lunar, and terrestrial views. The deluxe altazimuth mount and tripod is robust, intuitive to operate, and easy to set up and use. The Sky-Watcher 90AR-AZ3 is an excellent telescope for casual astronomy. It is also configured to be a superior land telescope, being supplied with an image erect 45° roof-prism and an 8x20 erect viewfinder. Deluxe dual slow-motion controls facilitate smooth tracking in each axis. This is one of the most popular telescopes ever offered to the marketplace. Trust Sky-Watcher to provide lasting quality you can count on. This is the best telescope of its kind in the market – bar none. Read on and find out why.
 The Sky-Watcher SW 90AR-AZ3 offers sufficient resolution for enhanced study of surface phenomenon in the solar-system, and additional structural detail in the brighter, more prominent deep-space objects. This telescope will also serve as a high resolution terrestrial telescope for razor sharp views of distant landmarks, nature and people. As seen through the 90AR, the pock-marked face of the Moon presents a treasure trove of extraterrestrial geographic landscape features. The SW 90AR will deliver breathtaking detail of famous-name high-walled craters and vast flat expanses known as lunar maria (seas). The planet Saturn reveals amazing views of it's ring structure and 4-prominent moons. Jupiter's equatorial bands show good detail revealing numerous discontinuities between the bands not visible in smaller aperture telescopes. In deep-space prominent nebulae and globular star clusters take on greater presence revealing themselves as more than just luminous, ghostly apparitions. Discrete stellar pinpoints manifest themselves to a far greater extent. A number of additional double stars are suitable for study as are satellite transits silhouetted against the surface of gas giants like Jupiter.
World renowned optical quality from Sky-Watcher!
 The Sky-Watcher brand name is your assurance of painstakingly rigorous standards of optical quality. The air-spaced, achromatic doublet objective lens of the Sky-Watcher 90AR-AZ3 is fabricated of Grade-A Crown & Flint glass. Each lens element is precision pitch polished to demanding standards of optical excellence. Each air-to-glass surface is multicoated with metallic high-transmission optical coatings ensuring the optimum through-put of light. The metal focuser assembly is solid and stable with a mechanically smooth metal rack & pinion focuser.
Sky-Watcher offers the advantage of high quality Plossl Eyepieces!
Only premium quality Plossl eyepieces are supplied with Sky-Watcher entry level telescopes. For this reason alone, the SW 90AR-AZ3 will outperform most all other instruments in its class! Eyepieces are half of the telescope's optical system. They are hugely important to a telescope's overall optical performance. Plossl eyepieces are the world's gold-standard for popular premium eyepieces. This $190 telescope comes with $94 worth of premium Plossl eyepieces. Enjoy huge 52° picture-window fields of view, image sharpness edge to edge, and eye relief that's just plain comforting.
AZ3 Altazimuth mount has robust construction and mechanical quality!
 The 90AR-AZ3 is an altazimuth mount telescope. The telescope's mount moves intuitively in vertical and horizontal directions. Astronomical objects are tracked across the sky by actuating the supplied dual slow-motion controls simultaneously in both axes to keep an object centered. The slow-motion controls allow very fine incremental tracking adjustments that precisely facilitate keeping fast moving sky objects centered in the eyepiece. Just a fraction of a turn of the cable control knob is all that is required to keep an object easily captured in the telescopic field of view.
 Stability of the mount and tripod is critical to the utility and enjoyment of a telescope. Insufficiently rigid mounts and vibration prone tripods act like tuning forks transferring undesirable vibration to the eyepiece. This will deprive the viewer of a steady view. Fortunately, Sky-Watcher mounts and tripods are some of the most stable and robust in their class. The mount of this telescope is made of metal in all critical structural and functional areas. The mount body itself is metal, the gear assembly is metal, the slow-motion cables are flex-steel, the heavy-duty tripod is aluminum, optical tube rings are metal. This telescope is structurally sound and offers smooth, precise mechanical controls.
Sky-Watcher GreatStart 90mm Refractor Package Features...
- Red-Dot Finder: Sky-Watcher entry level telescopes are supplied with Red Dot finders to facilitate easily locating objects prior to viewing through the telescopes main optical tube. The illumination is variable and the platform for the finder includes micrometric controls for aligning with the main optical tube.
- 2X Barlow Lens 1.25": Sky-Watcher entry level telescopes are provided with 2X Barlow lenses that provide twice the power when used with any eyepiece.
- Superior Super Plossl Eyepieces - SP25mm and SP12mm 1.25": Sky-Watcher entry level telescopes are provided with premium 4-element Super Plossl eyepieces. The same eyepieces often supplied as standard equipment on telescopes costing thousands of dollars.
- Planetarium Software for the PC: Sky-Watcher entry level telescopes are provided with a planetarium program that allows for exploring the heavens on your personal computer.
Sky-Watcher Product Number: S11930
Sky-Watcher Fall Rebate Sale Note: The SkyWatcher Fall Rebate Sale was set up by the manufacturer to include two kinds of rebates...the instant kind, and the more common mail-in rebate. Normally, the instant rebate is deducted by the seller from the sales price, but the mail-in rebate must be sent in by the customer after the purchase has been made. OPT wanted to make this purchase a bit easier on our customers. We've already deducted the value of the instant and mail-in rebates from the purchase price! In other words, if a telescope had an instant rebate of $25 and a mail-in rebate of $25, we deducted $50 from the regular price of the telescope....and that is what we are selling it to you for. You're welcome :>) Enjoy your Sky-Watcher telescope!
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