This easy-to-use compact scope really is as good as it looks - punching well above its weight - the 76mm primary mirror will out-perform our best 60mm refractor and yet is vastly more portable and convenient to use.

Handsome styling and easy to operate The appearance of Bresser Dobson 76 has been specially designed for younger astronomers eager to find out about the night-sky for themselves.

Two eyepieces, Barlow lens, Moon filter & astronomy sofware included! The two supplied eyepieces will provide magnifications ranging from 17x to 117x when used with the 2x Barlow lens. To improve Lunar views a pale blue Moon filter is included. And to help you explore the night sky a computer planetarium software program is included (see below for more details).

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Accepts all 1.25" eyepieces. The telescope accepts standard 1.25” accessories so the magnification range can easily be extended with additional eyepieces.

Easy to use. The uncomplicated manually operated (Dobsonian) alt-azimuth mount makes it a convenient, highly portable, grab-and-go system. The complete telescope and mount comes fully assembled straight out of the box. Just plonk it on the patio table and you are ready to observe - it really is that simple.

Find your way around: Other great features include a large built-in magnetic compass and large, easy-to-read, altitude (up and down) and azimuth (left and right) scales. These clear printed scales allow targets to be found easily using the included planetarium computer software (on CDROM). The software will show the user the observer related coordinates (altitude and azimuth) of thousands of targets in the night sky and these figures can be quickly set against the scales attached to the telescope and the chosen target is then easily spotted in the night sky.

Scopes'n'Skies comment: This is a great little scope! It's fun and easy to use. The no-fuss design makes the telescope feel over-built and robust and that is a big plus in any telescope design. Many telescopes in the under £100 class are too flimsy (we make it a rule to avoid these 'under-built' scopes) to provide good stable views - especially when used by the very young. This well made telescope is ten times more robust than most other telescopes in this class.

We particularly like the built-in compass and the observer coordinate scales - these features work well with the included software and make finding targets in the night sky easy and straightforward. These printed alt-azimuth scales are a nice touch and are not found on most of the competing products - you don't have to use them of course, but they are there for when you feel like being a bit more ambitious in exploring deeper into the night sky.

Supplied in a presentation picturebox.

What can you see with the Dobson 76

Even at low-power the "seas" and highland craters of the Moon will be seen (too many to count) as will the four large moons of the giant planet Jupiter. The phases of Venus (much like the Moon) can be observed. At the higher power and at favorable observing times, Jupiter will appear as large slightly oblate disk in the eyepiece and it will be as big the full Moon appears to the unaided eye, and the dark bands in its dense gaseous atmosphere will be discerned. The rings of Saturn can even be seen with this scope. At its highest power the telescope shows the Moon as an incredible ancient landscape of impact craters and intricate rills and valleys with views of the most spectacular mountains in the solar system (and all from your back garden!). Deep-sky targets like the Great Orion nebula star-nursery and the giant M31 island galaxy in Andromeda (over 2 million light-years away from Earth!) are unforgettable views in the Dobson 76.

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