Celestron CGX 8 Inch Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope - 12050

Take your visual observing and astroimaging to new heights with an all-new mount from Celestron: CGX. This German equatorial mount offers all the performance and features found on observatory grade mounts in a user-friendly package that can travel with you to remote observing sites. To create CGX, Celestron engineers started from the ground up with a completely new industrial and mechanical design. The result is a streamlined, elegant mount—inside and out. Unbeatable Tracking Performance Under the hood, CGX is different from any other generation of German equatorial mount. You’ll find a new heavy duty belt-drive system driving the worm gear, which minimizes backlash and allows the mount to move smoothly under heavy loads. The worm gear itself is brass and spring-loaded for smooth operation. You can train CGX using permanent periodic error correction (PPEC) to eliminate periodic errors in the worm gear. Set it once and the errors are gone for as long as you own the mount. Safer and More