Telescope N 150/750 AZ SynScan GoTo Star Discovery, Skywatcher

Sky-Watcher Star Discovery N 150/750 SynScan AZ Telescope

The Sky-Watcher N 150/750 Star Discovery SynScan AZ is a versatile Newtonian reflector designed for beginners and more experienced amateur astronomers. Its 150 mm aperture provides substantial light-gathering capability, while the compact construction offers good resistance to vibration and wind. This telescope provides access to deep-sky objects, globular clusters, the Moon and planets at a modest price.

The generous 150 mm aperture makes many distant deep-sky objects (DSOs) accessible, including the Ring Nebula in Lyra and the Dumbbell Nebula. Globular clusters such as M13 reveal a multitude of individual stars around their edges. Planetary observations provide detailed views of Saturn, Jupiter, Venus and Mars.

With its f/5 focal ratio, this reflector belongs to the class of fast Newtonian telescopes and is therefore particularly suitable for astrophotography. The 150 mm aperture has a light-gathering capacity 460 times greater than that of the naked eye alone, assuming a fully dilated pupil diameter of 7 mm.

Key advantages

• Relatively high light-gathering power thanks to the 150 mm aperture.
• Compact design provides resistance to vibration and wind.
• Diffraction-limited parabolic primary mirror.
• High-contrast images thanks to the thin secondary mirror spider vanes.
• Portable construction and quick assembly.
• Short focal length allows shorter exposure times in astrophotography.

Product description

The telescope features a computerised SynScan™ AZ hand controller, which allows automatic slewing to selected celestial objects and even guided tours of the night sky at the touch of a button. Its user-friendly menu system provides automatic pointing to more than 42,900 night-sky objects. Even inexperienced astronomers can master its range of functions after just a few observing sessions.

The Sky-Watcher Star Discovery mount is an upgraded version of the AZ Go-To mount, featuring FreedomFind™ dual encoder technology. Once aligned, the telescope can be moved manually or electronically along either axis without the mount losing its alignment or positional information.

After moving to a new object, the mount continues to track it accurately. This provides considerable freedom of movement, convenience and flexibility during observing sessions.

Technical specifications

Package contents

• Sky-Watcher N 150/750 telescope.
• Star Discovery SynScan AZ computerised alt-azimuth mount.
• Steel tripod.
• 23 mm 1.25" eyepiece.
• 10 mm 1.25" eyepiece.
• 2x Barlow lens.
• Red dot finder.