The Solarview Telescope

Now available as a 50mm scope (shown above) or a bigger 60mm version!

Beautifully engineered these fantastic telescopes give you an opportunity to marvel at our nearest star as never before!

Each scope will give you a clear full aperture (50mm or 60mm) as there is no central obstruction as found in other telescopes of this kind. This means you get fantastic contrast and the H-Alpha band practically right across the field of view!

Compact and portable, easy and safe to use and quick to set up, these marvelous scopes are ideal for educational use in schools, clubs, universities and colleges as well as individual use.

These telescopes are designed to accept photographic and CCD equipment, with plenty of back focus, thus making them excellent for imaging as well as visually.

The scope has a base with four ¼-20 holes for mounting purposes and is supplied with a robust, well padded carry case with ample room to safely house your diagonal and eyepiece. There is a metal anodised screw in cap to protect the exposed glass when the scope is not is use.


Located at the front end of the telescope is an energy-rejection filter that prevents entry of harmful ultra violet and infra red radiation, and it is this along with the built in blocking filter that offers full protection to your eye.It also controls the brightness of the final image.

The Etalon internal fine-tune tilt adjustment is provided to optimise contrast and image resolution or to view Doppler-shifted features

With the 0.7Å Bandpass, these scopes provide fantastic views of prominences, and surface details such as sunspots, plages, faculae, filaments, flares, Cornonal Mass Ejections, and granulation as you can see in the images on this page, all of which were taken through the Solarview 50 at the Arizona Sky Village by Jack Newton.

You can find out more about the sun and the features you will be able to see on it if you look at the solar features page

Additional Requirements

You will need a 1¼" eyepiece and star diagonal. Venturescope highly recommend a Tele Vue 1¼"Everbrite diagonal and the Tele Vue 8-24mm Zoom Eyepiece to get the very best visually.


NB All the pictures of the telescopes on this page are shown with an eyepiece, and diagonal but these are NOT supplied with the telescopes.

If you want to take photographs through your solarscope you need a mount that tracks at solar rate.

You can find out more about all these items on the accessory pages

Specifications
	50mm Solarscope	60mm Solarscope
Focal Length	400mm	480mm
Focal Ratio	f/8	f/8
Objective Lens	Achromatic Doublet
Full Aperture	50mm	60mm
Operating Wavelength	656.28nm ( H-alpha )
Etalon Coating	Ultra Hard multi-layer dielectric reflector
Anti Reflector Coating	Ultra Hard multi-layer dielectric AR
Transmission	0.7Å Bandwidth with fine-tune tilt
Thermal Stability	< 1Å / 200°C
Eyepiece Tube ID	1-1/4" / 31.8mm
Length	355mm / 14"	382mm / 19"
Weight	1.5 kilos / 3.5 lbs	2.25 kilos / 5 lbs
Sol Searcher	Supplied
Price (inc VAT)	£2895.00	£3795.00