Galileo FS-80 800 x 80mm Yoke Mount Reflector Telescope

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Brand: Galileo
Category: Photography

List Price: ~~$159.95~~
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Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars

5 reviews
Sales Rank: 350

Color: Hammer Tone
Media: Electronics
Batteries Included: Yes
Battery: 1 CR2032
Shipping Weight (lbs): 11
Dimensions (in): 42 x 36 x 66

MPN: FS-80
Model: FS-80
UPC: 798932000808
EAN: 0798932000808
ASIN: B0009MZJMS

Release Date: May 1, 2005
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Features:

•	Yoke Mounted 800mm x 80mm Reflector Telescope w/ Altitude Slow Motion Control Rod
•	Pre-assembled metal tripod with accessory tray and retractable rubber feet.
•	Unique Features: 1.25" Format
•	Included Accessories: Mars-Eye Finder, 2 1.25" Eyepieces(6mm & 20mm)
•	Galileo trilogy software set - Planetarium (Star/Planet location) progam, instructional telescope videos, and Britannica "Touch the Sky, Touch the Universe" educational program and 1 Year Warranty

Accessories:

•	3-Year Extended Service Plan - Covers Electronic Items $0-$200 - Repair

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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
The Galileo FS-80 is mounted on an altitude azimuth yoke mount. It's easy use up and down, left and right movement is great for beginners and casual star gazers alike. The Mount features a slow motion altitude adjustment rod for precision adjustments and is attached to a very sturdy, fully adjustable, pre-assembled metal tripod with retractable rubber feet. The tripod also features an accessory tray with slots to place eyepieces or lenses. The telescope tube features heavy duty metal primary and secondary mirror cells.The Galileo FS-80 optical tube assembly features an 800mm focal length. The Primary mirror is a 80mm heavy duty mirror cell with push / pull collimation screws. The primary mirror is aluminized with Silicon Monoxide Quartz overcoat providing 92% reflectivity and a resolving power of 1.4 arc seconds. The secondary mirror has an obstruction of approximately 25% linear (approximately 6% of the total area). The optical tube assembly is diffraction limited at ?4 (0.25 wave in Sodium light). The finderscope is Galileo's Mars Eye electronic Finderscope which helps by getting the observer behind the telescope without losing the surrounding field of view when targeting objects.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars

Good Scope, Clear Picture, Very Bad mount July 20, 2008
Joanne Bucci
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

I bought this telescope for myself because i always loved space. When buying it, i read the other reviews on this scope and saw the one about the bad mount. This is true. Once you get the scope lined up with the object you are viewing, if you so much as touch the scope the image wobbles like crazy. Needs a different mount. Other then that the viewing looks great. The moon looks amazing and it alows you to even see the moons of jupiter. Awesome scope, bad mount.

4 out of 5 stars

Jupiter&Saturn&Moon May 2, 2008
A. Lopez
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

It was so nice to focus my new Galileo telescope to this star that turned to be Saturn with his rings at the end, and over a week later at early morning I could watch Jupiter with three of his moons. Amazing for the price. I hope to see mars soon.

5 out of 5 stars

Great Product! April 15, 2008
DebH80 (Columbus, OH USA)
3 out of 6 found this review helpful

We own this telescope as well as a pair of the Galileo binoculars and couldn't be happier with the quality and value! Sure, if you have children, as we do, you have to help with set up and offer instruction, but after that it's time to reach for the stars! We have the DVD that gives SO much info! Great purchase!

4 out of 5 stars

Good for beginners February 7, 2008
Bocho (Atlanta, GA USA)
2 out of 6 found this review helpful

I gave it to my little bro for Christmas, and at the beginning he was eseptic but then he love it. It was difficult to make the mars laser eye to work but after a while we did it. Definetily it need and adult supervision for asembling and help to use at the beginning. We expend hours outside checking for stars and the moon.

3 out of 5 stars

Bad gift for a child, fun for the parent December 16, 2007
Gary Shuster
20 out of 22 found this review helpful

I purchased this as a gift for my 7 year old who is all about space. I figured I would need to get the telescope aligned with whatever we were looking for first, then let her use the eyepiece. Unfortunately, this telescope just requires too much time and attention to get the objects of interest in place, in focus, and then by the time I put her eye to the eyepiece, the earth's rotation has the object well on its way out of the field of view. So with my daughter, I ended up using the lowest magnification almost exclusively. There are easier telescopes for kids available at the lowest magnification.

All that said, after she goes to bed, I've had a lot of fun with this telescope. The tripod is not as stable as I would have liked, so there is a lot of movement in the image, but otherwise its been fun!