150mm Maksutov Cassegrain Telescope OTA

The Sky-Watcher 150mm f/12 Maksutov-Cassegrain is a powerful yet highly portable optical tube assembly that balances aperture with manageability. The Maksutov design uses a convex meniscus corrector lens instead of a Schmidt corrector, resulting in a smaller secondary mirror that limits obstruction and increases contrast while eliminating the need for periodic collimation. This optical design is ideal for detailed solar, lunar, and planetary observations while being able to resolve deep-sky objects like stars, clusters, galaxies, and nebulae. Generally regarded as producing a sharper image than Schmidt-Cassegrains, Maksutovs offer astronomers a large visual aperture, high contrast and long focal length in a compact package.