FOR SALE - SAXON SPED80 ED 80MM REFRACTOR
Supply includes
* Optical Tube Assembly (OTA)
* Standard OTA integrated foot for mounting to your dovetail or tripod
Applications
* Advanced Spotting (Birding, Terrestrial landscapes & General viewing)
* Astrophotography - this is an excellent astrophotographic telescope - and features "ED" Glass optics
* Advanced Astronomy - Short tube length means easy portability
This is a gorgeous unit, it is very sadly no longer in production
Features of SPED 80
• Objective type - Doublet air spaced Doublet FPL51 ED Glass, multicoated optics
• Lens shade - retractable type
• Focuser - Crayford Dual speed 2 inch - 360 Degree rotating, 1:11 fine focus Dual Speed
• L Type mounting bracket connected to bottom of tube, standard tripod connectable (removable)
Performance:
The Saxon SPED's were a premium Doublet APO utilising ED glass ideal as an excellent quality high portability astrophotographic scope/ back-up scope/ guiding scope
Lens Design
• Doublet ED, using premimum ED FPL-51 glass
• Fully Multi-Coated with anti-reflective coatings
• Fully knife edge baffled to block extraneous reflections
• 80 mm aperture
• Aluminium body, fully machined production - no plastic parts
• Drawtube with precision graduated scale
• 1.25” adapter included - brass Compression rings included
• Outstanding 360-degree rotatable Crayford focuser, smooth and precise
• Adjustable focuser tension
• Smooth & high quality 1:11 micro focus for ultra fine focusing
This was the last of the units available ex Saxon. I bought their very last unit they ever had. They usually sold around the $ 1,000 to $ 1,100 mark brand new.
I am simply never going to use this unit. I was going to use it as a guidescope but instead I have upgraded my strategy and am using Direct drive Eq mounts - an ASA DDM Direct drive DDM 85 and also a DDM 60 Direct drive Equatorial mount. These two mounts make guiding obsolete, thereby my purchasing this unit became superfluous to my needs as I do not have worm & wheel guiding error to correct for anymore.
Price $ 700
Pickup up ex Melbourne or shipment available nationally via courier (at actual cost).
Unit suits brand new buyer as all I have done is mounted it onto a tripod and had a diagonal inserted and tested it - once. It has never been used on the sky at all. It's performance and condition is perfect, absolutely mint
Thanks for looking.