hi this is Graham from Jenham's Astro today we're going to be unboxing a new
telescope this is a skywatcher skymax 127 which is 127 millimeter maksutov
telescope in the UK is for sale for around 250 pounds for the optical tube
assembly so let's open up the box and take a look ok so we open up the box and
typically in Skywatcher fashion there's a box within a box so we'll open up this
one as well ok so what do we got so we've got a couple of leaflets so we've
got actually we've got a instruction manual astronomical telescope user guide
we've got a flyer which has got very skywatcher models and we've got an
instruction manual now this is pretty lightweight it's basically one side at
the two sides of English and in this case two sides of German instructions
and from what I can tell it's largely explaining how to attach the red dot
finder to the telescope
other than that we can see that we've got a couple of boxes here and then
we've got a case which is quite nice so if we open up the case take that out of
the box and then we can see what's inside so we'll come back to the box and
its contents later so you can see it's a nice black carry case and it's got name
skywatcher here on the side and it's got a carry handle and a zipped
pocket on the side and it also comes with a strap so you can quite imagine
carrying the scope around in this in this carrier so if we
have a look inside okay so the telescope itself is well packed on
delivery and we take out to choose so here we go so moving
packaging put a layer of plastic and drop same bubble wrap and then some
tissue paper then there is the skywatcher
Skymax 127 well it feels a nice size one ofthe things I'm hoping to do is compare
this telescope with another one that you see quite a lot of my channel which is
the celestron C 90 so straight away you can see that is the comparison in size
the 127 is quite a bit heavier weight in a in a while but also I'd say comparing
this to the sky max 150 which also used and reviewed on this channel it's a much
more manageable size and I'll be interested to see how it compares between the C
90 and the 150 okay so let's have a closer look so first off you'll see
we've got a vixen style dovetail rail attached to the bottom of the optical
tube so that's gonna fit on standard mounts we've got as you've probably come
to expect from Skywatcher we've got a standard finder bracket here and the
scope is supplied with a lens cover so if we just take that off gently
here we are plastic lens cover so there we are there is the front and the
correct plate on the front of the of the 127 now let's have a look so I can note
that there are one or two very small spots here where the paint is flaked off
and I noticed that exactly saying with the with 150 when I unboxed that and it's
no big deal I guess it just doesn't quite adhere fully all the way around some
tiny little spots but I guess it's not really a big deal other than that I
can't see any dust or debris inside the tube so that's quite promising and the
finish is is rather nice it comes as with all Sky Watcher scopes comes with a
warning basically not to look at the Sun and pretty obvious really but some good
advice and then if we look at the rear of the tube we can see we've got a
knob which is has quite a nice feel to it it's quite quite stiff but probably
we need to move a little bit of grease around inside the focuser but it's a
good sort of feel to that and then we have we take loosen these two
screws right we've got the visual back now this telescope is supplied with one
a quarter inch accessories so this visual back is ready to accept a diagonal which
we'll see in a minute is also included inside the package and the other thing
to note is that on the end of this thread it will fit onto a t-ring so
this is exactly the same as on back of the c90 which perhaps isn't a surprise
given the origin of these two scopes so if you've got a DSLR and you buy one
of these rings to fit your particular brand of camera then you can screw that
onto the back of your telescope very easily and attach camera so that's a
very useful feature it's much more securely held than some alternative
fittings and it's good to see that it's available on the 127 as well as on the C
90
okay to do a few weight tests so I've got got my scales here if I put put the
127 onto the scales it's telling me that it's topping up 3.3 kilos for the 127
and if I compare that with the C 90 then it's telling me that that is 1.9 kilos
so it's quite a lot heavier but it doesn't feel unmanageably so compare
that with the the sky max 150 and that is around about 6 kilos once you've put
the diagonal on the back so that 150 feels like a much bulkier scope whereas this
is definitely more my idea of grab and go ok so let's see what else is in the
package so go back to the box you recall that there were two two boxes within the
box so the first one I think is really just for padding there's nothing in
there and then this one has got the remaining accessories so if we open this
one up so what have we got firstly we've got a red dot finder
now anybody who watched my recent videos on the skywatcher heritage 130 will
recognize this is the same red dot finder
which works very well with the little dob so I'm sure it will work well
with the sky max. Skywatcher have chosen to use the red dot finder
approach rather than fitting a 50 millimeter optical fine scope this is a
sort of approach they've taken with with the larger sky max 150 but from
experience this is a good little lightweight red dot finder and the idea
is of course that it will slot on to the tube here on the bracket so that's very
easy to to attach and all you need to do is to pull off the battery cover put it
onto the scope and make a one-time alignment of the of the red dot finder
and what's interesting is that inside the box skywatcher have already provided
thought of the tools you need for this and they provided a screwdriver which
will allow you to adjust the pointing of the red dot finder so that it's lined up
with the main tube of this skymax 127
other than that we've got a hopefully you can see that we've got a diagonal
mirror 90 degree diagonal again everything comes in plastic bags
so there you go it's a 1 1/4 inch 90 diagonal if we unscrew the end cap just
a little bit stiff we'll see that it just uses 2 screws to fit around the
eyepiece there's no compression ring so it's pretty basic I guess it's very
lightweight and it's a mirror diagonal but certainly that'll
get you started and then finally there are two eyepieces inside the box now these
are the same eyepieces as are supplied with the with the 130 heritage scope so
one of them is describes as a super 25 to 25 millimeter wide angle lens
eyepiece with long eye relief according to the label and the other one is a
super 10 also with long eye relief now from my experience of these two
eyepieces I'd say that they're okay really I mean skywatcher are
obviously building the package to a price then the 25 is is a
pretty useful that like a certainly get you going you can see comes with end
caps and it's got a nice rubber eye grip there so just to shade your eye from
stray light and give you a bit more comfortable view so I say the two
eyepieces the 25 and the 10 we can work out what's the magnification we're going
to get with those two given that this scope has a leave of 1500 millimeter
focal length yep that's right so it's an f12 scope so I can work out
magnifications we're gonna get with the 25 and the 10 but certainly they're
gonna be good to get you started in combination with the diagonal so you can
put all that together
quite tight to tighten up the eyepiece take the tube loosen off the two screws
and there you go so all you got to do is attach the red dot finder which will go
in here the fiddly so I'll do that afterwards
there we go
and that's it so I'd say first impressions guy max 127 it's a nice size
a telescope definitely grab and go according to my definition has a nice
quality feel about it the only comment being those flecks of paint witches that
say is no really no big deal nice quality finish on the tube good weighting
to the focuser so I'm looking forward to comparing the form to the scope with the
C 90 and also with the sky max 150 to see if it fits a nice spot in in the
range of a telescope sizes my experience the 150 was it was a little bit too
heavy to to use as a grab-and-go other people disagree and certainly the 90
millimeter C 90 has provided some fantastic views so interested to compare
the results of the sky max 127 in future videos okay so thanks for watching see
you again.