Skywatcher is a commercial distribution company established in 1999 by the Synta Technology Corporation of Taiwan that markets telescopes and astronomical equipment aimed at the amateur astronomical market. If you’re looking to buy a new Skywatcher telescope in Australia under warranty, look no further than The Binocular and Telescope Shop – we are an official dealer, and having been supplying amateur astronomers in Australia for over 30 years. Whether you’re from Brisbane, Melbourne, or Birdsville, our Sydney store can sort out all your telescope needs.
Introducing the Fusion series, Sky-Watcher's latest innovation in astronomy, designed to revolutionize your stargazing experience. Launching with the high-quality MAK150, the Fusion series combines advanced features with user-friendly design, offering unparalleled performance and ease of use.
Fusion 120i - MAK150 Key Features:
• Lightweight and Durable: The Fusion 120i mount weighs only 8kg, making it portable yet sturdy, with a payload capacity of 12kg. • Compact Dimensions: Measuring 335mm x 214mm x 467mm, this mount is ideal for both home observatories and field astronomy. • Precision Engineering: Equipped with a worm wheel and worm gear transmission mechanism, the Fusion 120i ensures precise movement. The Altitude and Azimuth axes each have 180 teeth, providing smooth and accurate tracking. • GOTO Functionality: Revolutionize your navigation of the stars with the GOTO function, making it easier than ever to locate celestial objects. • Wi-Fi Enabled: Control your telescope wirelessly via the SynScan Pro APP and SynScan APP, available on both smartphones and tablets. • Dual Axis Clutch Locking: Features clutch locking for both Altitude and Azimuth axes, offering greater control and stability during observation sessions. • Versatile Power Supply: Choose between the built-in rechargeable lithium battery (9.6V 4.5Ah) and an external DC12V-15V 3A power supply for extended use. • Compatibility: Compatible with OTAs featuring Losmandy style dovetails and Vixen style dovetails, ensuring a wide range of usability.
Why Choose the Maksutov-Cassegrain (MAK150)?
• Superb Image Quality: Maksutovs provide sharp, higher-contrast images due to their all-spherical optical design and the use of a meniscus corrector lens. This design minimises optical aberrations, delivering clearer and more detailed views of celestial objects
• Long focal lengths and sharp optics make "Maks" perfect for planetary and Lunar viewing. Get close up views of craters and mountains on the Moon, rings of Saturn, the moons of Jupiter and even the polar caps on Mars!
Optical Specifications:
Optical Design
Maksutov-Cassegrain
Optical Diameter
150mm
Focal Length
1800mm
Finder Scope
8×50
Focuser Diameter
2″
Eyepieces
28mm
EQ Wedge
There's also the Sky-Watcher Fusion Wedge to convert your Fusion mount into an EQ (Equatorial) platform.
180mm/2700mm Skymax 180 Maksutov-Cassegrain OTA – High Performance Optical Tube Assembly
The Sky-Watcher Skymax 180 Maksutov-Cassegrain OTA Telescope is perfect for the seasoned enthusiast moving up to a more powerful scope. The larger aperture enables more detailed views of our close planetary neighbours and sharper images of deep space objects.
Maksutov-Cassegrain Advantage
This telescope design has the inherent advantage of minimizing coma aberrations. It also presents a flatter and a more improved edge to edge clarity. Wide angle views of star fields and clusters have never looked so good!
Bring it to Your Favorite Viewing Spot
These Optical Tube Assemblies have a distinct advantage of being designed for use with different mounts. As long as the standard adaptors are present, you should be able to attach the OTA on it. The quick release mechanism enables you to assemble the tube quickly. It also allows you to make minor adjustments to the tube like a stroll in the park.
A new modern large Maksutov telescope for superb viewing and imaging
200 mm Maksutov Cassegrain flat field optics Edge to edge sharpness and contrast
2000 mm focal length at F10 Large 44 mm image height support
Optional 0.7x focal reducer compatibility
Compact well balanced OTA design
Overview
Available May 2026!
Discover why "Maks" are renowned for their sharp imaging and visual observation with the new Sky-Watcher Skymax 200DX Maksutov Cassegrain Telescope
The Sky-Watcher Skymax 200DX Maksutov Cassegrain Telescope is a premium 200 mm optical system built for astronomers and astrophotographers who want exceptional sharpness, strong contrast, and consistent field flatness across a large image circle.
Designed around an optimised flat field Maksutov Cassegrain layout, the Skymax 200DX delivers clean, accurate performance for detailed visual observation and high resolution imaging.
With an effective aperture of 200 mm and a focal length of 2000 mm at F10, this telescope excels at revealing fine surface detail on the Moon and planets while also delivering strong results on compact deep sky targets. Its advanced optical design helps suppress off axis coma and other aberrations, producing consistent star images from the centre of the field right through to the edge.
For imaging applications, the Skymax 200DX includes a generous 44 mm image height, making it well suited for modern large sensor cameras and full frame astrophotography workflows. For users wanting wider fields and faster exposure times, an optional 0.7x focal reducer is available, expanding flexibility without taking away from the telescope’s refined optical purpose.
Despite its high performance optical profile, the Skymax 200DX remains compact and well balanced, making it a practical option for permanent observatory setups or portable imaging rigs when paired with a suitably rated equatorial mount.
The Sky-WatcherBlack Diamond 130/650 Photo Reflector OTA is a 130mm aperture Newtonian reflector with diffraction limited optics, all the light gathering power you need for visual use or astrophotography! Newtonian reflector telescopes are among the most cost effective design on the market, reaching much larger apertures than an equivalently priced refractor. The large aperture will help resolve faint, extended objects like nebulae and galaxies, whilst the 650mm focal length will reveal fine details of lunar craters.
The 130/650 Photo Reflector is equipped with an excellent Crayford dual speed focuser allowing fast, coarse regulation followed by a precise 10:1 reduction adjustment knob to reach the optimal focus. A 3 element 28mm LET eyepiece is provided, allowing 23x magnification and a 56° apparent field of view with 20mm of eye relief. The aluminised primary mirror is aspheric (parabolic profile) offering an optical system free from spherical aberration. The secondary mirror is thin to allow fast cooling and it is held by extra thin spider supports for minimal diffraction spike effects on bright stars and increased contrast.
In The Box:
SkyWatcher Black Diamond 130/650 Photo Reflector OTA
New from Sky-Watcher: 400m (16") Collapsible Dobsonian Telescope
View moon, planets, comets, stars, galaxies and nebulae
Collapsible truss design – 30 minute setup time
Built-in Wi-Fi
Backed by 5 Years Sky-Watcher Limited Warranty
The 18" and 20" Sky-Watcher Stargate Dobsonians were famous as being some of the largest, yet easily to transport large telescopes available. Now the series includes a smaller version with a 400mm or 16" diameter main mirror - although even this new model is larger than many amateur telescopes.
The truss structure is compact for the size, making it a perfect companion for travelling to dark sky sites.
What you'll see through this telescope will be stunning. A lifetime of close up views including:
Solar System planets including Jupiter, Saturn, Mars and even Uranus and Neptune.
Whisp of interstellar gas in star forming regions called nebula
A vast number of open and globular star clusters
Distant galaxies, millions of light years away
Setting the telescope up is straightforward and the largest component can easily be carried by one person
The outstanding light gathering of the mirror and the superior resolution allow amazing journeys through the universe, offering spectacular observations of tangled gas filaments in nebulae, fine galaxy details and remarkable planet structures. Despite the size of the mirror, the telescope is easy to assemble following the step by step instructions and video.
To top it off, the Sky-Watcher Stargate is equipped with a 2″ Crayford dual speed focuser for smooth and precise focusing, and a focuser-locking screw.
Computerized Synscan
The Stargate Go-To is equipped with the Sky-Watcher SynScan that has in it’s memory 42,900 objects! Once the telescope is aligned, thousands of objects will be visible with a touch of a button; planets, the entire Messier catalogue, bright and double stars and the IC, NGC, SAO catalogues. In addition to this, the Deep Sky Tour function suggests a list of the most interesting deep sky objects so even the inexperienced astronomer can easily observe faint nebulae and galaxies.
The Freedom Find technology (dual-encoder) allows the telescope to be moved manually whenever the user wishes, but without losing any of the pre-set alignment.
Sky-Watcher 127mm/1500mm Skymax 127 Maksutov-Cassegrain OTA
The Sky-Watcher 127/1500 Skymax 127 Maksutov-Cassegrain OTA is a compact and powerful optical design that combines a front meniscus lens and two mirrors. As the optical tube is closed by the meniscus, the mirrors are protected from atmospheric agents such as humidity, dust and pollution that over the years degrade the reflective coating of the mirrors. The tube is compact but the focal length is long allowing high magnification with the standard eyepieces.
The resolution power gives the ability to distinguish the main planets details such as the rings of Saturn, the bands and the moons of Jupiter.
Features:
Compact dimensions, ideal for transportation
Practical main mirror focusing mechanism
Universal accessory adaptation
High contrast image without distracting false colour
Quick release system for the tube
Impressive viewing capabilities for its price range
5 years Sky-Watcher limited warranty
Superb Imaging power
The 127mm aperture provides enough light gathering power to view the most popular celestial bodies and messier catalogue objects. It is designed to produce high contrast images with minimal chromatic aberrations. This imaging power comes at a price that is well within the range of most enthusiasts.
Portable and Easy to Setup
The compact dimensions of this optical tube assembly makes it easy to carry around. It’s designed for easy assembly and disassembly with its quick release system. It also allows you to easily perform minor tube adjustments to suit your current environment. Bring it along with you to your favourite viewing locations.
Durable Construction
The lightweight aluminium tube is expertly designed to support the internal optical components and keep images sharply in focus while in use.
Fast Photography F/4 (12-inch) steel tube Newtonian Optical Tube with rings and mounting plate.
Classic f/4 Newtonian wide-field optical tube with super power linear 2 speed focuser and built for wide field astrophotography, the Sky-Watcher 200mm f/4 reflector will ensure you fit more sky on your astronomy cameras and reduced exposure times.
KEY FEATURES:
User level, intermediate and advanced users.
Highly recommended for astrophotography.
Fast F4 focal ratio.
Metallic high reflection coatings
Fully blackened
OTHER INFORMATION:
Cast Aluminum tube rings, with Losmandy Dovetail Bar
The venerable Dobsonian reflector design has recently undergone some important upgrades and improvements: Skywatcher is pleased to introduce the all-new Collapsible Dobsonian complete with Crayford focuser – the ultimate in large aperture portability and performance.
This elegant truss tube design was carefully engineered to combine ease of use, extreme portability and consistent performance in an affordable package. Unlike other truss tube designs, the Skywatcher Collapsible Dobsonian does not need to be disassembled between uses. It transports as two compact pieces that can be assembled and ready to use in just seconds! It is easy to collimate once set up, and it holds its collimation throughout the evening!
The bearing system has been redesigned as well. The new Skywatcher Collapsible Dobsonians feature buttery smooth azimuth bearings. Even the twelve-inch model can be rotated with just the push of a finger. Like our traditional Dobsonians, the new Collapsible Dobsonians feature Skywatcher’s patented tension adjustment control on the altitude bearings. This eliminates the need and added cost of clumsy counterweight systems to balance the telescope.
To top it off, all of the new Collapsible Dobsonians are shipping with ultra smooth Crayford focusers.
Skywatcher 16 Inch Collapsible Dobsonian Key Specifications
