| The 6” aperture and excellent optics of the Orion SkyQuest XT6 IntelliScope is a great step-up from the smaller aperture so-so scopes with which many people start out their observing career. It’s big enough to keep you busy observing for the rest of your life, yet lightweight and compact enough to make it easy to set up on the spur of the moment for a half hour or so of observing whenever the urge hits you. Its performance and convenience makes it the perfect second scope for many astronomers when they discover the limitations of the “department store special” telescope they started out with. The XT6 IntelliScope is a 6” Dobsonian reflector with an IntelliScope object locating computer that makes it easy for you to quickly find more than 14,000 fascinating celestial wonders. With the IntelliScope, you spend more of your time looking at the intriguing faint fuzzies in the sky, and less time looking for them. The XT6 has the high contrast you need for exceptional views within the solar system, but with the good light-gathering capacity (over 450 times greater than the human eye) that makes it equally good for capturing faint deep space wonders. Binary stars, open and globular star clusters, faint nebulas and galaxies – all are revealed in exceptional and subtle detail, even through mildly light-polluted suburban skies. The scope is human powered. The user moves the scope manually – which is faster, quieter, and eats fewer batteries than motorized systems. With only two major components to assemble (tube and base), the scope takes only a few minutes to set up and is easily manageable by any fit individual. It can be used in your back yard or at a distant dark sky site (the preferred observing location if you want to get the utmost out of its faint object observing capabilities). Its good optical quality and very reasonable price for such a technically advanced and convenient telescope make it an excellent buy for the beginner or more advanced astronomer alike.
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