Orion SkyView Pro 8 IntelliScope

Orions SkyView Pro 8 IntelliScope is a computerized telescope with a database of over 14,000 celestial objects. It provides a detailed description of the object you’re viewing. There are two different modes of navigation; one for finding objects in the sky and another for navigating through the database.

The GOTO feature can be used to find objects in the sky by entering either the common name or its catalog ID# into the keypad. It has a sturdy steel tripod and comes with an accessory tray, eyepiece holder and slow-motion controls on both axes. The secondary mirror housing has a thin seam between each end, which allows ambient light to enter and illuminate it, making it easier to find it when collimating.

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The Orion SkyView Pro 8 IntelliScope is a computerized telescope with a database of over 14,000 celestial objects.

The Orion SkyView Pro 8 IntelliScope is a computerized telescope with a database of over 14,000 celestial objects. It’s designed to provide you with information on the object you’re looking at, no matter what it is.

The SkyView Pro 8 includes an internal database of over 14,000 objects and will provide you with information based on where your telescope is pointed to. You can choose from planets, stars and galaxies or even look for an entire constellation like Ursa Major (the Big Dipper).

It provides a detailed description of the object you’re viewing.

The IntelliScope function provides detailed information about the object you’re viewing, including its location in the sky and size. It also describes its brightness and how it varies over time.

The Sky X also has an optional IR sensor. This allows you to use the scope as a night vision device, which can be especially useful for viewing wildlife at night.

There are two different modes of navigation; one for finding objects in the sky and another for navigating through the database.

The SkyView Pro 8 includes two different modes of navigation. The first, called the database mode, allows you to search for objects by name, catalog number or celestial coordinates. Once you’ve found an object you are interested in looking at (such as Comet Hale-Bopp) or one that you want to learn more about (such as M1: The Crab Nebula), just tap on it and it will appear on the screen with its information.

The other mode is called the sky mode and is used to find objects in the night sky using your device’s built-in GPS receiver and compass. You can use this feature by picking a date/time combination from a calendar or manually entering one yourself. It also gives access to your latitude and longitude coordinates if desired so fewer steps are required when starting out with this feature than might otherwise be expected from something so powerful!

The GOTO feature can be used to find objects in the sky by entering either the common name of an object or its catalog ID# into the keypad.

Looking for objects in the sky is as easy as entering their name or catalog ID# into the keypad on the right side of your SkyView Pro. There are two buttons on this keypad: one for moving up and down, and one for moving left and right. You can also use these buttons to move through the database from A-Z or 0-9.

Orion has done an excellent job with its database, which contains over 40,000 stellar objects (stars, galaxies and nebulae) from different constellations throughout our galaxy. The vast majority of these objects have been named by amateur astronomers over many years; Orion has only added about 5% of them themselves.

It has a sturdy steel tripod and comes with an accessory tray, eyepiece holder and slow-motion controls on both axes.

The SkyView Pro 8 IntelliScope has a sturdy tripod and comes with an accessory tray, eyepiece holder and slow-motion controls on both axes. The mounted telescope sits on a mount that can be adjusted up to 45 degrees in any direction, making it easy to point at any celestial object you want to observe. There are also two slow-motion controls for moving the telescope around in right ascension and declination axes.

The optical tube fits into a dovetail mount, which is attached to the tripod via three locking thumbscrews on each side of the baseplate. This design makes adjusting the position of your scope very quick and easy without requiring any tools: simply loosen one screw at time until you find your preferred viewing position!

The secondary mirror housing has a thin seam between each end, which allows ambient light to enter and illuminate it, making it easier to find it when collimating.

The secondary mirror housing has a thin seam between each end, which allows ambient light to enter and illuminate it, making it easier to find it when collimating.

The Orion SkyView Pro 8 IntelliScope’s primary mirror cover is easy to remove by holding down the thumb lever on top of the mount, which releases the tension on the cover. Then you can lift off one side at a time, revealing your scope’s open tube design.

To make sure your scope is properly aligned before you begin observing with it, first use an illuminated reticle eyepiece like our Sirius Plossl Eyepieces (sold separately). You’ll need this device because collimation adjusts reflectors differently than refractors; in fact, most reflectors cannot be collimated using traditional methods.

Instead of looking through an eyepiece or star diagonally off-axis (like refractors), reflector telescopes require that you look along the optical axis at Polaris or another bright star from your local area when aligning their mirrors so they can produce an image with perfect focus across its field of view without any chromatic aberration or distortions caused by misaligned optics.”

This is a very capable telescope with many useful features.

The SkyView Pro 8 comes with a database of over 14,000 celestial objects, including stars, constellations and deep-sky objects. It also provides more information than your average telescope — it gives you the distance from Earth to whatever it is you’re viewing, identifies how long ago that object was formed and tells you how big it is. The telescope will even tell you about planets beyond our solar system.

The most impressive thing about this telescope is that it has two modes of navigation: one for finding objects within the sky and another for navigating through its database.

One mode navigates by pointing toward an area in space where an object would be located; when pointing at what looks like empty space but really isn’t (because there are objects there), the display shows which direction to move until reaching your designated target object in order to get a closer look at something interesting such as Saturn’s rings or Jupiter with its moons Europa and Ganymede visible on either side!

The other mode lets users search by name instead – so if someone wants information about “Mars,” they could type “Mars” into their handheld controller instead of trying manually locate Mars’ location among several hundred thousand stars nearby Earth right now!

Conclusion

Now that you’re familiar with the Orion SkyView Pro 8 IntelliScope, let’s take a look at some of its pros.

Pros:

• Integrated Wi-Fi is easy to set up and use.
• A bright, high-definition display makes it easy to read star charts, identify objects in space, and more—even in the dark!
• IntelliScope technology helps novice astronomers learn about the night sky without becoming overwhelmed by too much information at once (no pun intended). 4. The SkyView Pro 8 IntelliScope comes with an extensive database of thousands of celestial bodies from which users can choose when searching for anything from planets to stars or galaxies.”