Cheap! Celestron C5 Spotter 5inch 127mm Schmidt-Cassegrain Spotting Scope, Matte 52291

Celestron C5 Spotter 5inch 127mm Schmidt-Cassegrain Spotting Scope, Matte 52291

Brand : Celestron ,Model : 52291 , ASIN : B00006LSVC

Celestron C5 Spotter 5inch 127mm Schmidt-Cassegrain Spotting Scope, Matte 52291

Chosen by NASA for its Optical Excellence.
Ideal Choice for the Serious Bird Watcher, Nature Lover or Anyone who Enjoys Beautiful Views.
Just Six Pounds in Weight and 13 Inches in Length,
Near Focus of 20 Feet.
Fully Multicoated Optics.

Celestron’s C5 Spotting Scope features excellent optics and wonderful versatility in a compact portable size. Although the C5 is best known as a portable telescope for astronomy, Celestron has outfitted the C5 Spotter for daytime use by packaging the C5 with a soft-sided carrying case, an erect image 6x30 finder scope, a correct image 45 degree diagonal prism, and a good quality 25mm plossl eyepiece for a magnification of 50X.

The C5 Spotting Scope is a Schmidt-Cassegrain optical telescope or SCT, and is designed to use many of the hundreds of accessories available in the SCT market including optional eyepieces and camera adapters. A nice option for the C5 spotter is Celestron’s 8 to 24mm Zoom Eyepiece , which allows the user to dial in any magnification from 52X all the way up to 156X. The most important accessory for a high power scope is a sturdy tripod. Celestron’s Heavy Duty Alt-Azimuth Tripod is sturdy enough to handle the C5’s six pound weight and features extended slow motion knobs that make it easier to point the C5 precisely.

The C5 is my favorite dual purpose telescope, useful as both a high power spotting scope and as a portable telescope for astronomy. The same fine optics are available in Celestron’s NexStar 5 SE computerized telescope for astronomy. The big advantage of the C5 over traditional refractor style spotting scopes comes from its higher magnification and greater resolving power, at least 50% better resolving power than the best 80mm spotting scopes. The disadvantage, of course, is that a higher magnification gives a narrower field of view. An optional 32mm Plossl eyepiece for example would magnify the image by 39X with about 1.25 degrees true field of view.

The high power optical performance of Celestron’s C5 Spotting Scope is nothing short of outstanding. Even at 200X magnification there’s no trace of the “chromatic aberration” or blue fringing commonly seen in refractor style spotting scopes. With a close focus distance of only 20 feet, the C5 spotting scope excels at everything from photographing hummingbirds in the back yard to viewing the rings of Saturn nearly a billion miles away. --Jeff Phillips

Hummingbird shot at 30 yards with C5 and Powershot camera	Finches shot at 20 yards with C5 and Powershot camera
Shot at 200X with C5 and Neximage camera
Shot at 50X with C5 and Powershot camera	Shot at 400X with C5 and Neximage camera

Pros:

Dual uses, spotting and astronomy
Excellent high power optics
No trace of “blue fringing”

Cons:

Narrow field of view
Less rugged than refractors

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