Teleskope SkyWatcher SkyHawk 114/500 P EQ1

The award-winning Sky-Watcher SKYHAWK-1145P is a great choice for the serious beginner and also receives high marks from more seasoned astronomers. With a useful 114mm of light gathering aperture, combined with its superb parabolic mirror, this telescope is a highly capable all-rounder for the observation of the Moon, bright planets, nebulae, galaxies and star clusters. Supplied with the EQ1 equatorial mount, which when polar aligned, will allow you to easily track objects as they move across the night sky via its slow motion control cables.The SKYHAWK-1145P models feature premium-quality Parabolic Primary Mirrors, normally found in larger more expensive telescopes, to eliminate spherical aberrations, producing even sharper, higher-contrast images which are full of detail. A parabolic or more accurately a "paraboloidal" mirror, is ground to a shape which brings all incoming light rays to a perfect focus, on axis. In addition they feature 0.5mm Ultra-Thin secondary mirror supports, to reduce diffraction spikes and light loss. Trough this telescope you will be able to observe moon and brightest planets - Saturn, Jupiter, Venus, Mars, and also take first steps in deep sky observing. With this telescope you will be able to observe more than half of Mesier catalogue objects - star clusters, brightest galaxies and nebulae. Add an optional solar filter and you can observe activity on the sun. Magnifications (with optics supplied): x20, x40, x50, x100 Highest Practical Power (Potential): x228 Diameter of Primary Mirror: 114mm Telescope Focal Length: 1000 mm (f8.77) Eyepieces Supplied (1.25"): 10mm & 25mm Red Dot Finder EQ1 Equatorial Mount Aluminium Tripod with Accessory Tray 125% more Light Gathering than 76mm ?