janoskiss
12-12-2005, 01:23 AM
I have one Saxon ED 80 telescope for sale for $450 delivered anywhere in Australia.
This is the same much-talked-about telescope as the Orion ED 80 and several other brand ED 80s with a two-element apochromatic objective lens and a smooth Crayford focuser. It outperforms significantly bigger achromats and Newtonians. It performs a long way above what I would have expected from an 80mm telescope.
The telescope is like new. I bought it in August 2005. I never had the dew shield off and never touched or cleaned the objective lens.
I found no false colour with this telescope even at high magnifications on planets. It will take 240x comfortably without image breakdown (well beyond the old 50-60x per inch of aperture rule of thumb). It is superb for daytime viewing too, and you can mount it on any standard photo tripod that can take the weight. You can get close-ups of insects near tops of tall trees 100+m away, or birdwatch from kilometres away.
I have attached a few photos of the telescope, but you can check out more of them here: http://members.optusnet.com.au/~janosk/ed80/index.html.
A 2" diagonal and an 8x50 straight through finder are also available if required.
This is the same much-talked-about telescope as the Orion ED 80 and several other brand ED 80s with a two-element apochromatic objective lens and a smooth Crayford focuser. It outperforms significantly bigger achromats and Newtonians. It performs a long way above what I would have expected from an 80mm telescope.
The telescope is like new. I bought it in August 2005. I never had the dew shield off and never touched or cleaned the objective lens.
I found no false colour with this telescope even at high magnifications on planets. It will take 240x comfortably without image breakdown (well beyond the old 50-60x per inch of aperture rule of thumb). It is superb for daytime viewing too, and you can mount it on any standard photo tripod that can take the weight. You can get close-ups of insects near tops of tall trees 100+m away, or birdwatch from kilometres away.
I have attached a few photos of the telescope, but you can check out more of them here: http://members.optusnet.com.au/~janosk/ed80/index.html.
A 2" diagonal and an 8x50 straight through finder are also available if required.