Anyone who has spent much time in the field looking at stars with amateur astronomers is sure to have heard the term "light bucket." Effective yet inexpensive, "light buckets" provide amateur astronomers with the aperture needed to view faint deep sky objects. With the quality and precision designed into the Zhumell Dobson 8-inch, you can have a really nice bucket for gathering all of that starlight.
With a traditional Dobsonian mount, the Dobson 8-inch is easy to use. A 2-inch dual-speed crayford focuser accepts a full range of 1.25-inch and 2-inch format eyepieces. Finding the stars has never been easier now that the Zhumell comes with a Right Angle Correct Image (RACI) finderscope. The 8-inch aluminum oxide/silver oxide-coated, center-marked mirror provides excellent contrast and definition and offers 1/12-wave wavefront accuracy, along with 92-94% reflectivity.
Combine these features with a cooling fan, quick collimation screws (for easy alignment of your mirror), a black optical tube (which will acclimate to environmental more quickly than other colors), and an included laser collimator (to make alignment of your mirrors even easier), and you will see that the Zhumell Dobson telescopes are more like 5-gallon pails filled with spectacular views than your standard, everyday light bucket.
Mirror Coatings - Aluminum plus Sio2 (Silicon Dioxide)
