hi this is Graham from Jenham's Astro now it's always very exciting when you order
some new telescope kit and it arrives in the post so today we're going to do an
unboxing video
Here's the box "skywatcher be amazed" hopefully we will so
inside we've got a Skymax 150 Pro Maksutov telescope let's take a look
okay so what do we got well the box is around 60 centimeters long and 25 centimeters
deep it's got the usual handle with care' markings you might expect for sending
optical equipment
you open it up first you can see some
packing material so it's some polystyrene foam and then we can see
that inside the box we've got the tube the optical tube assembly and we've got
a cardboard box so put it out to one side we remove the tube
It's wrapped in a plastic bag and some paper
now you can see the skywatcher 150 Maksutov tube assembly
I'd say first impressions is a nice finish on the actual tube itself sort of sparkly black
finish comes with a lens cap on the front and what looks like a 2-inch
fitting on the back this one's got a Schmidt Cassegrain thread the later
models have got this thread and the usual standard focuser knob,
coming around this side we've got a standard bracket to attach a finderscope and
you'll see the labeling there to say that there is Schott optical glass inside
this scope as as you find in lots of skywatcher Pro telescopes so what to say
it's pretty substantial actually I think it's a little bit bigger than I was
expecting to be previously I've had a Celestron C6 scope and which is the same
aperture but this is much heavier, i think this tube assembly is about five and a half
kilos and it's a bit longer than the C6 and it feels really quite substantial
it's got a standard vixen dovetail plate running along the whole length of the
tube
okay put that down what else is in the box ? As i said it comes with a box of
extra bits have a look so the first item
28 millimeter multi-coated so this is the eyepiece that comes with
the scope so it's nicely wrapped there it is 28 millimeter multi-coated it's
got a bit of a cheap label stuck on the side here I think that's going to come
off fairly soon and otherwise quite a nice finish it's got a big
rubber eye shield which from reading about these it's you can move it in and
out to give the right comfortable position 2 inch eyepiece comes with
covers we'll give that a try another time see what sort of performance we get
from it.
Carrying on inside the box got a diagonal again nicely wrapped
so this is a standard two inch diagonal
quite lightweight feel certainly a lot of metal taking off the lens caps you
can see hopefully you can see the mirror and also it should be to see that it
comes with a standard barrel size adapter so you can put a two inch
eyepiece into the diagonal or you can use one and quarter inch diameter
accessories eyepieces so that all seems pretty good quite useful that you
get the whole set of accessories with this scope so removing that again we can
see that you can put the two together I'd say it's a fairly a fairly cheap
diagonal in a way I'm having can't judge the performance yet but it it doesn't have
a compression ring as you might find on a higher-end model it's just got the two
two screws but certainly get you started no problem I'm sure okay what else does
in the box?
all right so the last item is a finderscope so there you go I think it's a
certainly a 50 millimeter objective I'm not sure if it's an 8 by 5 or 9 by 5 9
by 50 rather nicely finished comes with the same finish on the tube as you
have on the telescope tube assembly and as you might expect it's going to
connect easily onto side of the tube assembly so if we put it all together
take off the cover put in the diagonals tighten up the screws here comes the
eyepiece so this is 28 millimeter so it's quite a wide angle eyepiece quite a
low power eyepiece okay so that is the whole assembly so this is what you get
in the box I'd say it feels very solid looking
forward to using it have a look at the front
I guess the business end so there you go you can see the silver from the
secondary on the back of the of the corrector plate
I'd say the coatings have got a purple hue to them one or two small
imperfections in the paint finish around the inside of the tube probably caused
by putting the cover onto the front not a big deal but one or
two small flecks there of paint other than that looks good solid hopefully in
in a future video we'll take some shots through this looking forward to doing
some planetary work with it with a webcam and we'll get an idea for the
optical performance of this
so that's it. Skywatcher Skymax 150 Pro Maksutov telescope unboxed
thanks for watching