Telescope Reviews: Hubble UL16 Premium Ultra Light Truss Dobsonian

The professional grade SiTech controller combined with the revolutionary SkySafari will more than double your enjoyment and fun with the Heavens.

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Professional grade Sidereal Technology controller combined with the revolutionary SkySafari running on iPad, iPhones, iPod Touch, or even an Android device.
Wireless, touch-screen-based 21st-century GoTo system with tracking capability. You simply touch the star and your scope will move to the right target.
Skysafari (Pro) features 15.3 million stars, 740,000 galaxies, and 550,000 solar system objects, including all the comets and asteroids ever discovered.
You can even track a satellite or a comet!
Point your scope to the NCP or SCP and turn on the power, the scope will start to track precisely. Nothing else, not even a handpad is required; it is as simple as this.
Superior local search function. A spiral search will either miss sky, or has too much overlapping sky. SiTech local search feature is a series of circles, each larger than the other. It remains a true circle regardless of your altitude or declination. You can pause, reverse, speed up, slow down, during the search, and you have two radius choices, all from the handpad.
With closed loop encoder feedback drive control, there is no need to worry about drive slippage or wind gusts as the scope will always track precisely.
Backlash management and compensation is also included.
With our state of art 10K altitude inclinometer encoder, there is no need to set up the altitude encoder every time you transport your scope.
Superior and precision servo motors drive system with state of art drive train.
SiTech has a powerful script feature. You can pan the Lunar terminator using relative pan commands, Pan the Veil Nebula with absolute pans, even write your name with starlight, etc. Making the scripts is as easy as moving your scope (or the virtual scope during the day), and clicking on various options.
For advanced imagining users, SiTechExe (running on a PC) offers an extremely powerful and unique PointXP telescope modeling software by Dave Rowe. PointXP takes a series of "Calibration Stars" to performs some very complex transformations, Gauss-Jordan, Partial Derivatives; and does a fine job in correcting for many telescope mounting errors and mount flexture and can increase the pointing accuracy by a factor of up to 10!
SiTech provides the Auto Guider port on an optional wireless handpad receiver. This is an industry standard connector, where you can plug an SBIG or other standard auto-guider. The autoguiding works extremely well, because of the “Equal Area Guiding,” Backlash compensation, and instantaneous corrections. The auto-guider inputs are acted upon within milliseconds. Check out the latest astro photography on www.siderealtechnology.com.
Built in SiTech ASCOM software support for auto focuser and de-rotator via a second SiTech controller. You will use the “Azimuth” channel of the second SiTech controller
for the focus motor, and the “Altitude” channel of the second controller for a field de-rotator motor.

Interface with any ASCOM Compliant Planetarium programs and telescope control routines inside CCD imaging programs.
The interface to the following popular Planetarium programs are supported:
Earth Centered Universe (ECU)
TheSky™
Cartes du Ciel
MegaStar
ARGO NAVIS™ and Sky Commander are supported; but are not required.
Easy Plug-n-Play self-installation, and No drilling is required! Just tighten a few screws, and you are ready to GOTO. It will likely take more than a few minutes, but it
will NOT be hours or days to install our GOTO system.
The GoTo package includes: SiTech Dual Servo Telescope Controller I and Wired Handpad; 2 servo motors and gear boxes; all necessary accessories (cables, adapter
plates, screws, etc.); a 10K azimuth encoder and 10K altitude inclinometer; and a Skyfi wireless receiver. The iPad is not included. Please note that if there is no RS232
(serial) port on your computer, then you must have a USB to RS232 Adapter Cable, which is not provided.

$1495 Limited Special Offer with free motors (only when supply lasts).

Edited by hubble-optics (07/16/12 02:28 AM)