Televue TV-60

High Performance 2.4” APO doublet,
360mm f/6 objective, OTA only 10”-long — includes 2-stage 1¼” focuser with quick-focus drawtube plus fine-focus helical. Exquisitely machined and anodized all-metal construction with sliding captive dew shield.

• 1¼" focuser accepts in-line Porro prism and 45º erectors, or 60º and 90º diagonals.

• Maximum True Field: 4.3º (Great for terrestrial and astronomical use.)

• Maximum Power: 180x (with NEW 2-4mm Nagler™ Zoom — for lunar/planetary viewing)

• Adjustable dovetail balancing bar fits all camera tripods, Tele Vue mounts and NEW mounting bracket for SCTs (below).

• It’s a super-finder, day/night scope with great telephoto and imaging capability for digital cameras.

• Includes black carry bag.

• Optional padded carry case available.

Televue TV-76 Complete Package (Green)

The Tele Vue-76 combines Pronto's compact size with the APO optical performance of the Tele Vue-85. The expansive 5.5° rich-field drizzles your view with delicate jewel-like stars, while the APO performance of the new Nagler designed, multi-coated 2-element objective and 2" Everbrite diagonal produce natural stellar and planetary color rendition even at the highest useful powers. Small size and lighter weight permit use of lighter-duty tripods for easy field carrying and transportation. The padded shoulder bag provides protection and room for the scope and six eyepieces. If your interests crossover from astronomical to spotting or birding, and you demand the ultimate in portable performance the Tele Vue-76 is always waiting to deliver.

Objective 76mm Aperture, APO Doublet

Focal Length 480mm

Focal Ratio F/6.3

Max Visual Field 5.5 degrees

Weight/Length 6lb., 17"

Includes Custom soft case, screw-on lens cover, sliding dew shield, ring mount, Plössl eyepiece, 2" focuser, 2" diagonal, 1 1/4" adapter

Green powdercoat finish

Televue TV-76 Complete Package (Ivory)

The Tele Vue-76 combines Pronto's compact size with the APO optical performance of the Tele Vue-85. The expansive 5.5° rich-field drizzles your view with delicate jewel-like stars, while the APO performance of the new Nagler designed, multi-coated 2-element objective and 2" Everbrite diagonal produce natural stellar and planetary color rendition even at the highest useful powers. Small size and lighter weight permit use of lighter-duty tripods for easy field carrying and transportation. The padded shoulder bag provides protection and room for the scope and six eyepieces. If your interests crossover from astronomical to spotting or birding, and you demand the ultimate in portable performance the Tele Vue-76 is always waiting to deliver.

Objective 76mm Aperture, APO Doublet

Focal Length 480mm

Focal Ratio F/6.3

Max Visual Field 5.5 degrees

Weight/Length 6lb., 17"

Includes Custom soft case, screw-on lens cover, sliding dew shield, ring mount, Plössl eyepiece, 2" focuser, 2" diagonal, 1 1/4" adapter

Ivory powdercoat finish

Televue TV-85 Complete Package (Ivory)

The Tele Vue-85's mix of aperture and small physical size makes it a wonderful "go anywhere, do anything," crossover instrument—with Tele Vue quality, of course. With APO performance and airline portability, the Tele Vue-85 has been delighting astronomy and birding enthusiasts and reviewers alike. "Eye-popping performance that raises the standard of excellence for highly portable instruments." Evaluation of double-stars, lunar detail, deep sky and photography were reported in Sky and Telescope as: "Truly awesome! ...Incredible!...the view almost blew me off my chair!..." The conclusion, "...an extremely powerful, compact instrument capable of delivering stunning images of the universe."

The Better View Desired website reviewer summed up the Tele Vue "experience" when he said he would choose the Tele Vue-85, "...to really enjoy the incredible beauty of the living birds... And, even now, every time I look at a bird through one of the exceptional conventional spotting scopes, I'll be thinking: 'I wonder what this would look like through the Tele Vue-85? I wonder what this bird really looks like?'" Yes, pure enjoyment of nature's beauty without awareness of a thing in between.

Objective 85mm Aperture, APO Doublet

Focal Length 600mm

Focal Ratio F/7.0

Max Visual Field 4.4 degrees

Weight/Length 8lb., 21 1/2"

Includes Custom soft case, screw-on lens cover, sliding dew shield, ring mount, Plössl eyepiece, 2" focuser, 2" Everbrite diagonal, 1 1/4" adapter (all fittings contain brass clamp ring style locks)

Evergreen powdercoat

Televue TV-85 Complete Package (Green)

The Tele Vue-85's mix of aperture and small physical size makes it a wonderful "go anywhere, do anything," crossover instrument—with Tele Vue quality, of course. With APO performance and airline portability, the Tele Vue-85 has been delighting astronomy and birding enthusiasts and reviewers alike. "Eye-popping performance that raises the standard of excellence for highly portable instruments." Evaluation of double-stars, lunar detail, deep sky and photography were reported in Sky and Telescope as: "Truly awesome! ...Incredible!...the view almost blew me off my chair!..." The conclusion, "...an extremely powerful, compact instrument capable of delivering stunning images of the universe."

The Better View Desired website reviewer summed up the Tele Vue "experience" when he said he would choose the Tele Vue-85, "...to really enjoy the incredible beauty of the living birds... And, even now, every time I look at a bird through one of the exceptional conventional spotting scopes, I'll be thinking: 'I wonder what this would look like through the Tele Vue-85? I wonder what this bird really looks like?'" Yes, pure enjoyment of nature's beauty without awareness of a thing in between.

Objective 85mm Aperture, APO Doublet

Focal Length 600mm

Focal Ratio F/7.0

Max Visual Field 4.4 degrees

Weight/Length 8lb., 21 1/2"

Includes Custom soft case, screw-on lens cover, sliding dew shield, ring mount, Plössl eyepiece, 2" focuser, 2" Everbrite diagonal, 1 1/4" adapter (all fittings contain brass clamp ring style locks)

Evergreen powdercoat

Televue NP-101

The Tele Vue-NP101(Nagler/Petzval) represents our closest realization yet of the "ideal" multi-purpose photo/visual telescope. Its snap-to-focus sharpness across even the widest true fields, and rich planetary contrast will take your breath away. Its quality, easy set-up, and airline portability beckons your use. Over 20 years ago we reinterpreted the incredible design flexibility of the Petzval portrait lens into an astronomical objective. No other design type affords the freedom to simultaneously correct for: coma, astigmatism, field curvature, secondary spectrum, spherical aberration, and spherochromatism. The artful combination of materials and design bestows the Tele Vue-NP101 with diffraction limited performance into the furthest reaches of the visual spectrum. Manufacturing advances in lens finishing, including interferometric monitoring of all surfaces, and Tele Vue's stringent assembly and quality control, insure uniformly excellent results with every telescope, and a level of manufacturer direct service all too rare. If your interests range from terrestrial to rich-field or planetary astronomical, or to photography, just put in your eyepiece or attach a camera and the NP101 is ready to satisfy right out of its case.

Objective 101mm Aperture, APO 4-El. Nagler-Petzval design

Focal Length 540mm

Focal Ratio F/5.4

Max Visual Field 4.9 degrees

Weight/Length 10lb., 29" (26" OTA)"

Includes Custom Hardshell case, screw-on lens cover sliding dew shield, 2" focuser, 2" Everbrite diagonal, 1 1/4" adapter

Ring Mount with (3) 1/4-20 holes and easy balance adjustment

Ivory powdercoat finish

Televue TV-102

The new Tele Vue-102 is a 4-inch, 2-element f/8.6 APO air-spaced doublet, similar to the appearance to the 4-element f/5.4 Tele Vue-101, but 5-inches longer. The Tele Vue-102 achieves similar diffraction limited, high power APO viewing as its 4" sibling, along with a wide 3 degree maximum visual field (compared to 4.9 degrees for the Tele Vue-101). A dedicated 0.8x reducer/flattener is available to permit great astrophotography of star fields at f/6.9 with the Tele Vue-102.

The Tele Vue-102 is offered as a complete package or as an O.T.A., since you may already own a 2" diagonal and adapter as well as an eyepiece collection and mounting rings. These items are available expertly for the O.T.A.. I hope you agree that the 4" Tele Vue-102 offers the high standard of performance and features of Tele Vue refractors along with a unique value.

Objective 102mm Aperture, APO Doublet

Focal Length 880mm

Focal Ratio F/8.6

Max Visual Field 3.0 degrees @ 16x (55mm Plossl)

Weight/Length
Ivory O.T.A.: 9lb.
Ivory w/Diagonal: 11lb.
Brass "Renaissance" w/Diagonal: 14.8 lb.

Length of O.T.A: 30-3/4"
Length of O.T.A: w/Diagonal: 33-3/4"

Includes custom hard shell case, screw-on lens cover, sliding dew shield, 2" Everbrite Diagonal, 1-1/4&quot-2" adapter, Plossl eyepiece, Ring Mount and Ivory powdercoated tube

Televue NP-127is

For 25 years, Tele Vue has pushed the boundaries of APO refractors, as well as eyepieces, to the recognized pinnacle of performance. We were gratified but not surprised that Backyard Astronomer's Guide said of the NP101: "optics don't get any better than this." No wonder Sky and Telescope rated the NP101 tops (May & June 2002) and selected it as the test instrument for its landmark review of the SBIG STL11000 CCD camera (July 2004). The "is" versions of the Tele Vue- 60, 102i, NP101 and NP127 retain the exemplary wide field and planetary visual capability while adding new features to make imaging easier and more flexible.

NP127 (660mm, f/5.2, 5") maintain their optical specifications yet with redesigned 4-element optical systems. Larger rear lens groups absolutely minimize vignetting in formats up to 50mm diagonal. For these large chips an optional field corrector was developed so the corners of the newly brightened edges would virtually be as perfect as the center of the field.

In order to take full advantage of the larger lenses, a non-vignetting focuser was developed to prevent any restriction of the larger converging light cone. The draw tube has a 3" front aperture and 2.4" rear aperture. This new draw tube also permits quick change from visual to imaging operation and allows full camera rotation without focus change. In addition, it has the capability to correct for any residual focal plane tilt and accepts a "position stop" for our digital micrometer to allow repeatable focus measurement to 0.0001".

To maintain squareness to the optical axis while changing camera orientation, the draw tube has four lock screws that tighten against a taper on the "imaging insert" ring. This insert is threaded to accept Tele Vue's new Imaging System accessories including large diameter extension tubes, optical accessories, and camera and CCD attachments, all with mating threads.

The Focusmate 6:1 planetary ball type reduction focuser provides extremely sensitive focus adjustment, measurable with the optional Digital Micrometer Kit to better than 1/10,000". Also, the optional Focusmate Driver permits electronic motor control of the focusing process. The Focusmate Driver has direction push-buttons and adjustable speed. A tap on the button permits vibration-free focusing in steps as small as approximately 0.0005". The Focusmate Driver can be remotely computer controlled with software under development.

Tele Vue has been known for producing visual instruments "even better than you imagined." We aim to achieve the same with our imaging equipment. Our dedicated local machinists and in-house staff are as committed as ever to deliver on these quality and performance goals.