It's easy use up and down left and right movement is great for beginners and casual star gazers alike. Terrestrial viewing is extremely easy due to the included erecting prism which produces a totally erect image. 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 Galileo G-2HT optical tube assembly features a 700mm focal length. The objective lens is a 60mm two element achromat (color correct crown & flint) air spaced objective lens. The tube itself is aluminum painted flat black internally and fully baffled for excellent visual and CCD imaging. The objective is fully multi-coated and has a resolving power of 1.9 arc seconds. The optical tube assembly is diffraction limited at 4 (1/4 wave in Sodium light). The finderscope is Galileos Mars Eye electronic Finderscope which helps by getting the observer behind the telescope without losing the surrounding field of view when targeting objects.
