Astrophotography

The EQ8-R provides the next generation of Sky-Watcher’s popular high capacity mount, the EQ8.

The R models offer a refined design to allow for better balance and more modern features to cater to today’s high end imagers. 

Dec bracket for Star Adventurer mount.

This accessory allows to connect a ball head adaptor on top of the star adventurer mount. It features a 3/8″ thread.

Complete your Star Adventurer kit with this updated tripod. 

• The EdgeHD .7x Focal Reducer Lens makes your EdgeHD 9.25" one full F-Stop faster than f/10, reducing your exposure time by half to capture the same brightness of object
• 4-element lens design
• Maintains similar flat-field performance as native EdgeHD optical design
• Increases field of view by 43% to better capture wide field images
• Threads directly onto the 3.25" threads of the EdgeHD which reduces mechanical vignetting and allows for use with larger (full frame) sensors and Off-Axis Guiders
• Maintains the identical back focus when used at f/10 and provides generous back focus to accommodate additional accessories and wide variety of cameras
• Allows use of existing EdgeHD T-Adapters with or without the Reducer Lens

• 6" (150mm) f/8 objective lens is perfect for high contrast planetary views
• The most compact and portable of Celestron’s German equatorial mounts offers the same rigidity as our larger mounts with minimal flexure and an improved industrial design
• Holds a maximum instrument capacity of 30 lb
• Every feature an astroimager wants: PEC, an autoguider port, the ability to image across the meridian, and more
• NEW dual saddle plate is compatible with narrow CG-5 dovetails and wider CGE dovetail. Also compatible with Vixen format dovetails longer than 100mm, but not compatible with Losmandy D format plates.
• Latitude range allows the mount to perform between 7° and 77° latitude
• Accessories include a 20mm eyepiece, 1.25” star diagonal, and 9x50 finderscope

• EQ6-R Equatorial Go-To Mount
• Belt driven transmission for limiting the backlash
• Adjustable steel tripod with an accessory tray
• Illuminated polar scope included for precise polar alignment
• Bubble level for perfect levelling
• Aluminium setting circle dials allow for quick target acquisition via celestial coordinates
• Worm gear tracking controls provides a full 360° manipulation of the RA and DEC axis
• V and D style telescope connection
• Freedom Find™ encoders
• Permanent Periodic Error Correction (PPEC)

Celestron's EdgeHD is an aplanatic, flat field Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope that produces aberration-free images across a wide visual and photographic field of view.