With astrophotography becoming more and more popular in recent years, Celestron’s forward looking engineers saw the handwriting on the wall and went to work improving upon their own SCT design developed in the early ‘70s. Their goal was to create a truly flat field telescope that would fully satisfy the needs of serious imagers - enter the Edge HD! This revolutionary new telescope produces a focal plane more than three times flatter than a standard Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope providing visibly sharp stars across some of the largest CCD chips available today.
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If you already possess a solid and accurate equatorial mount, and are in the market for a compact yet powerful flat field telescope for your imaging program, then you need to take a look at the Celestron EdgeHD 8 OTA - 8" f/10 Aplanatic SCT OTA. This amazingly versatile telescope has the ability to work at f10, f7, with Celestron’s optional .7x Focal Reducer for 8" EdgeHD telescopes, as well as an incredibly fast f1.9 with Starizona’s HyperStar 4 for Celestron C8 SCT EdgeHD. Backed by Celestron’s generous 2 year warranty, and High Point Scientific’s famous lifetime tech support promise, we invite you to step up to the next level of quality and performance with Celestron’s Edge HD!
If you are searching for an easily portable, thoroughly modern telescope that can be quickly set up for visual adventures, but are still thinking about pursuing some serious imaging sometime in the future, then check out Celestron’s NexStar Evolution 8" EdgeHD with StarSense. This highly innovative telescope offers brass worm gears as well as enhanced motors for ultra smooth tracking, StarSense AutoAlign technology, a built-in rechargeable lithium-ion battery with power sufficient for 10 hours of nonstop observing and so much more!