CELESTRON OMNI XLT 120 TELESCOPE IN SOUTH AFRICA

See beautiful clear views of the the night sky, the rings of Saturn, Jupiter's moon, The Jewel Box cluster etc with this professional grade telescope.   This is NOT a toy!  Total weight 26 kg.   The Celestron Omni XLT 120 Telescope offers even more brightness and aperture than its sibling XLT 102-it is a superb 4.7" refractor for the price, complete with Celestron's StarBright XLT coatings. The Omni XLT 120's excellent and contrasty images are appealing for observation, and the scope's also ready for some imaging duty, too. The focuser is the larger 2" size, to allow you to take advantage of some delicious wide field star viewing should you ever upgrade to an optional 2" diagonal and longer 2" eyepiece. Unlike altazimuth-mounted scopes, the Omni XLT's quite viable for astrophotography; it has a T-mount adapter, and when augmented with the optional dual axis motor and polar axis finder can achieve brilliantly sharp long-exposure images of the faint objects such as nebulae. The XLT 120 features the CG-4 manual mount, which doesn't require batteries. Rand for rand, the choice of the CG-4 manual mount over motorized mounts will be advantageous to purists who are eager to learn the sky map. It can be a rewarding experience. SPECIFICATIONS   Refractor Design Aperture (mm) 120 mm Focal Length  1000 mm Focal Ratio  8.33 Focal Length of Eyepiece 1 25 mm (Multi Coated) (40x mag) Focal Length of Eyepiece 2 9.7  Meade Plossi(Coated) (100x mag) Additional Lens 2.3x Barlow Finderscope  6x30 (with cross hairs)     Mount Info Mount Type Omni CG-4 Equatorial Tripod Leg Diameter  1.75" Stainless Highest Useful Magnification  283 x Lowest Useful Magnification 17 x Limiting Stellar Magnitude  2.9 Light Gathering Power (vs eye)  294 x Apparent Field of View 1.25 °       Optical Coatings  StarBright XLT Optical Tube Length  1016 mm Optical Tube Weight  5.67 kg Tripod Weight  5.67 kg EQ Mount Weight 9.53 kg Weight of Counterweights  3.2 kg and 1.8 kg