The Acuter Solarus-80 is an 80 mm solar telescope with a secure, permanently mounted white light solar filter made of glass.
Designed for safe white light solar observation of sunspots, solar eclipses, solar surface details and the transit of the inner planets across the Sun.
It incorporates a rotating filter wheel with pre-installed filters for viewing the Sun in different colors. It also features a smartphone camera adapter for taking pictures with your smartphone.
The kit includes an innovative Auto-Tracking Solar Go-To/Auto-Tracking Mount. This ingenious mount is easy to use and provides a safe experience for automatically locating and observing the sun with your telescope. Level the tripod and point the solar telescope to any point to the left of the sun, and let Solar Alignment Technology automatically do the rest!
With the push of a button, the telescope will automatically level itself and the mount, by locking in GPS data, will calculate the altitude of the sun based on time and location. The telescope will then point to the correct altitude and the mount will rotate clockwise looking for the Sun. The solar sensor will detect the Sun, lock onto it and silently track it as it moves across the sky, keeping it within the eyepiece's field of view.
The Acuter Solarus-80 solar telescope and self-tracking solar mount assembly can be used by educational facilities, beginners and experienced observers alike.
The Acuter Solarus-80 meets the transmission requirements of ISO 12312-2:2015 (Filters for direct observation of the Sun). Always use it according to the instructions.
Features
- Built-in, permanently mounted white light solar filter
- Objective lens diameter: 80 mm (multi-coated)
- Telescope focal length: 400 mm (f/5)
- Supplied eyepiece: Fixed Zoom Eyepiece 5-16mm, adjustable in 5mm, 10mm and 16mm steps
- Magnifications: x80, x40 and x25
- Secure Solar Seeker
- Universal smartphone adapter (smartphone not supplied)
- Filter wheel, preloaded with red, yellow, blue, green, green, orange and ND (neutral density) filters, with handy in-use filter indicator. Includes an empty slot for viewing without filter.
- 90° diagonal for comfortable viewing (non-rotating)
- Crayford focuser (non-rotating)
- Dovetail rod type Vixen 45 mm with 1/4"-20 tripod threads (side mount)
- Telescope length: 378 mm
- Telescope weight: 1.75 kg
- Patented solar alignment technology: Solar sensor with 4 photodiodes and integrated GPS for time and location to calculate azimuth and altitude of the sun.
- Telescope self-leveling function with the help of the built-in tilt sensor (3-axis accelerometer in the sensor block).
- Automatic drift correction by means of sun sensor feedback
- Automatic pointing offset correction function
- 8-way slide switch to center the Sun in the field of view
- Tracking rates: Non-aligned solar tracking
- Pointing accuracy: Up to 3 arcminutes (after customer calibration)
- Resolution: 2073600 counts/evolution, 0.625 arc seconds
- Slew rates: 16x and 1200x
- Tracking mode: Dual axis tracking
- Motor: DC Servo Motor, Gear Ratio 6480
- Mount load capacity: 4kg
- Sky-Watcher type dovetail mount/Vixen 45 mm
- 3/8" fittings (tripod/mount)
- Adjustable aluminum tripod with accessory tray
- Spirit level
- Tripod/mount height 80.5cm - 152cm
- Weight of mount head: 1.3kg
- Total weight with tripod 4.05kg
- Low Power Consumption
- Power: 8 AA batteries (not included)
