At last, if you are searching for a general purpose telescope, to watch wildlife, birds and perhaps shipping or aircraft but you would also like to do some astronomy and checkout the Moon, planets, nebulae and galaxies for yourself - then the Sky Watcher Visiomar 60mm hybrid is the telescope for you!

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Sky Watcher experience and know-how in the hybrid design. This powerful general purpose telescope is another great idea from Sky Watcher Instruments - they took a classic 60mm spotting scope design, gave it a powerful (20x to 60x) and comfortable high-eye-point zoom eyepiece and exceptional close-focus ability (under 5m to make the telescope perfect for field and garden close-up wildlife watching) but then added great features like a electronic red dot finder and a slow-motion tripod head to make the instrument an ideal starter scope for terrestrial and astronomy use!

This classic 60mm refractor benefits from an up to date makeover and features a special day/night red-dot electronic finder with two brightness levels and a lightweight adjustable height all aluminium table-top tripod with manual slow-motion movement for easy target finding and tracking in altitude (up and down).

Ideal for explorers young and young at heart, the Visiomar Monoscope is the perfect instrument to discover the wonders of nature, from your back-garden to the remote wilderness of the night sky.

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Features:

60mm two-element air-spaced achromatic primary lens

20 to 60x magnification infinitely variable zoom eyepiece with long eye-relief and soft rubber eye-cup that folds down easily for spectacle wearers.

Smooth and precise helical focuser

Close focus point: just 5m (16ft)

Electronic LED red dot finder for daytime or night-time use

Folding variable height table tripod with easy-to-use slow-motion altazimuth head

Threaded fitting point for standard camera tripod

So whatīs so great about the Sky Watcher Visiomar Monoscope?

If you are looking for a universal telescope for terrestrial use and with the ability to observe astronomical targets - look no further. The Sky Watcher Visiomar is the ideal hybrid scope and delivers the best of both observing worlds! It is an ideal family use telescope and has powerful features that make it perfect to enjoy the widest possible observing usage.

The terrestrial views of birds, nature, shipping etc are breathtaking and are fully corrected (not inverted or mirrored) via the built in optical erecting system. For astronomy viewing the Visiomar is equipped with an electronic red dot finder (CR6 3V battery included!) that superimposes a red spot on the sky to show you exactly where the scope is pointing - this makes finding targets effortless and this high-tech finder has a two position brightness control so that it can even be used in bright daylight for spotting wildlife, birds, people, ships etc! The fully adjustable slow-motion head of the tripod ensures that targets (terrestrial or astro) can be tracked by turning a knob without taking your eye from the eyepiece. The altitude even has an adjustable slipping-clutch for easy target centering.

The Visiomar has a superb high power zoom eyepiece with long eye-relief and fold-down soft rubber eye-cup offering full field of view observing for users with or without spectacles. Any magnification between 20x and 60x can be selected instantly at a simple twist of the wrist! Complimenting the zoom eyepiece, a minimum backlash helical focusing system snaps the image into pinpoint focus accurately and quickly - the smooth motion offering the absolute minimum image shake.

What can you expect to see in your backgarden sky?

This telescope will show you some of the most amazing sights in the solar system right from your back garden! If you havenīt seen the surface of the Moon in a quality telescope then get ready for some incredible views. The Moon is an awesome spectacle any month of the year - its desolate and ancient surface showing thousands of impact craters and some of the most spectacular mountain ranges in the solar system! (and this from YOUR backgarden - and for under sixty quid! Ryan Air, eat your heart out!) The phases of the planet Venus, going rapidly from almost a full disc to a thin crescent can easily be seen and tracked over the weeks of its seasonal apparitions.

Under favorable conditions the planet Mars will show surface detail and at the right time of year the white frost of its polar cap. The giant planet Jupiter, just a bright star to the unaided eye, will, at 60x magnification, show the observer a larger image of Jupiterīs globe in the eyepiece than the full Moon appears to the unaided eye! Jupiter's four major moons can be tracked through the evening and can be seen transiting the disk or being eclipsed.

The famous rings that encompass the giant planet Saturn can be seen (and are truly unforgettable) as can Saturnīs enigmatic attendant moon, Titan. With the addition of a solar observing filter (see Recommended accessories, below left) sun-spots and other active phenomena can be seen on the surface of the sun and studied in detail. The brighter nebulae and galaxies millions of light-years distant can be seen with the Visiomar with beautiful asterisms (groups of stars) like the Pleiades and globular clusters (swarms of stars in a clump) like the famous M13 can be easily viewed on any dark night when these targets are over the horizon. And, a little closer to home, you can watch the behavior of birds on your bird-table just 5 meters away!