Explore Scientific Telescopes

The Essential series are "bare bones" versions of the Explore Scientific Apos - they still have the exquisite optics of the original triplets, including Japanese Hoya FCD1 Dense Fluorcrown and Explore's Special EMD.

Highly corrected 102mm air-spaced triplet apochromat (with three lenses) and carbon fibre tube and a 2.5" high-precision HEXAFOC focuser.   

This 5-inch instrument offers superb colour correction and pin-sharp views and images, due to its triplet design lens, which features one FCD-100 ED element...

The Explore Scientific ED APO 165mm f/7 Carbon FPL-53 3" is the latest development in the line of Explore Scientific's excellent Apochromatic range of refractors. This 6.5-inch instrument offers superb colour correction and pin-sharp views and images.

Designed by Explore Scientific in conjunction with veteran Comet Hunter David H Levy, this remarkable 152mm Maksutov Newtonian offers stunningly wide fields of view and superior off axis images compared to conventional Newtonians of the same aperture and

The Explore Scientific Ultra Light 10" Dobsonian is ideal for those who want a telescope with good light gathering power and great optics in a compact easy-to-store package.

The Explore Scientific Ultra Light 12" Dobsonian is a great collapsible, super- portable telescope - featuring full aluminium construction for strength, durability and lightness.

The Explore Scientific Ultra Light 16" Dobsonian GENERATION II is the ultimate in collapsible, large aperture, portable telescopes

If you're looking for a telescope that will actually delivery the types of deep sky views you've been dreaming of without the necessity for permanent observatory mounting - then the Explore Scientific Ultra Light Dobson 20" f/3.6 GENERATION II could be fo