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The house range that covers every shelf
Omegon is the one name on this site that turns up in the telescope shelves, the mount shelves, the eyepiece shelves and the accessory shelves alike. That breadth is the interesting fact about it: most of the catalogue’s other names sit in one or two aisles.
The Omegon listings tend to name the part rather than describe it — a filter is given its designation, a counterweight its mass and its bore, an extension sleeve its optical path in millimetres. That is what makes the products comparable, and it is the reason several of them sit near the top of their shelf on this site.
It is not uniform. One Newtonian in the range is titled as a reflector and then described in its bullets as though it had a lens objective, and the page for it says so rather than choosing a reading. A range this wide is assembled rather than designed, and the listings show it.
Check the shelf the product sits on rather than the badge. The same name covers a beginner’s 76 mm tube and a 203 mm Newtonian on an equatorial mount, and those two are not the same purchase in any respect.
6x magnification · 30 mm objective · crosshair
A straight-through 6x30 optical finder with a crosshair and a wide field, described by the maker as gathering eighteen times more light than the unaided eye.
Best for: Replacing a 5x24 finder on a small telescope with something that actually shows stars
≈ £41 / €44
70 mm aperture · 700 mm focal length
An achromatic 70/700 refractor on an alt-azimuth mount with an aluminium tripod, sold as a first adult instrument.
Best for: An adult or older teenager starting with the Moon and planets
≈ £94 / €90
130 mm parabolic mirror · 650 mm focal length
A 130/650 Newtonian with a parabolic primary on an EQ-320 mount, with a 1.25 in focuser, a tracking drive and an illuminated LED finder.
Best for: A first serious deep-sky instrument for somebody prepared to collimate it
≈ €409
203 mm aperture · 1200 mm focal length
A 203/1200 Newtonian on a Dobsonian base — the largest aperture in this group, sold with an accessory set and a mount with nothing to align.
Best for: The observer who has decided that aperture matters more than portability
≈ €529
80 mm Maksutov · T-2 thread and dovetail
A compact 80 mm Maksutov with a coated front lens, a T-2 thread with buffer ring, a finder shoe and a GP dovetail that fits photo tripods and standard mounts.
Best for: A travel optic that doubles as a long lens on a photo tripod
≈ €166
Purely mechanical tracker · 4 kg payload · no batteries
A spring-driven mechanical star tracker for cameras and light telephoto lenses, carrying up to four kilograms and running without any power source at all.
Best for: Wide-field night sky photography on foot, far from any power
≈ €256
114 mm mirror · 900 mm focal length · EQ-1 mount
A complete 114/900 Newtonian on an EQ-1 equatorial mount with two-axis slow motion, supplied with two eyepieces, a 6x30 finder and a 2x Barlow.
Best for: A first equatorial telescope for the Moon and planets
≈ $399 / €239
76 mm · 700 mm focal length · AZ-1 mount
A compact 76/700 telescope on an AZ-1 alt-azimuth mount, supplied with three eyepieces, a 2x Barlow and a red dot finder.
Best for: A light, simple second telescope or a first one for a teenager
≈ €139
25 mm focal length · 50° apparent field · four elements
A 25 mm Plössl with a 50-degree apparent field, coated optics, a metal body, rubber eyecups and a filter thread.
Best for: The finding eyepiece — the one that stays in the focuser most of the evening
≈ £32 / €34
UHC · 1.25 in · no passband published
A 1.25 in UHC filter from Omegon’s Pro range, sold on the contrast improvement it brings to nebula observing, with no wavelengths published.
Best for: A nebula filter bought on the maker’s reputation rather than on published data
≈ £57 / €63
20–60x · 80 mm · photo thread · retractable dew shield
A 20–60x80 zoom spotting scope with anti-reflection coating, a retractable dew shield and a photographic tripod thread, sold as an entry-level nature observation instrument.
Best for: A first spotting scope where the dew shield and the tripod thread do the work
≈ €159
A 2 in extension sleeve of 50 mm optical path with a spring-ring clamp, a filter thread at the lower end and internal ribbing against reflections.
Best for: A telescope whose focal plane sits too far out for its eyepieces to reach
A steel counterweight of 2.6 kg with a 21 mm bore and a locking screw, made for the EQ-500 X and fitting many other shafts.
Best for: Balancing a heavier tube or a camera on a 20–21 mm counterweight shaft
An aluminium case with 12 cm of internal depth and 1 cm cube foam, deep enough for large 2 in eyepieces to stand upright.
Best for: A growing eyepiece and filter collection that has outgrown its boxes
A six-filter 1.25 in colour set for planetary observing, with the maker naming #21 orange and #25 red and describing what each brings out.
Best for: A planetary observer with a telescope large enough to spend the light
A metal red dot finder offering a dot, a circle with dot, a crosshair and a cross with circle, adjusted on both axes with a hex key.
Best for: Replacing the flimsy red dot finder supplied with a telescope
A short 120 mm dovetail bar with a flat top and a long slot, supplied with a 1/4 in hex-head screw.
Best for: A small tube or a guide scope that needs a short, simple bar
A flexible plastic dew shield with a velvet inner finish for tubes of 225 to 245 mm outside diameter, closed with hook-and-loop.
Best for: An 8 in Schmidt-Cassegrain or a 200 mm reflector on an autumn evening
A short adapter converting an M48 internal thread to a T2 external thread, with the maker emphasising that its low profile avoids focus problems.
Best for: Bringing a 2 in filter thread onto a T2 camera fitting with minimal focus loss
The entry version of a purely mechanical tracking mount, which replaces the optical polar scope with a simple sighting tube.
Best for: Wide-angle tracked photography where a coarse polar alignment is enough
A neutral grey Moon filter passing 25 per cent of the light, threaded for 2 in eyepieces, intended to dim the Moon without tinting it.
Best for: A wide-field 2 in eyepiece used on the Moon at first or last quarter
A 2 in broadband CLS filter that the maker states suits telescopes from 70 mm upwards and darkens the object only slightly.
Best for: A 2 in eyepiece or focal adapter on a telescope of 70 mm or more, under a town sky
A full-aperture solar filter supplied ready-mounted in a moulded plastic frame with an ND5 solar film, made to push directly onto Omegon Basic telescopes.
Best for: An Omegon Basic 114 mm, or a tube whose front diameter has been checked against one
Any figure written into the body of this page was true on the day it was written. The amount shown next to each instrument is requested from the retailer as the page loads, and it is that amount, not the text, that stands.
