Viewing The Solar System With Konus Telescopes

Spectacle maker Hans Lippershey made the world's first telescope in the early 1600's. Telescopes utilize curved mirrors and lenses to focus and magnify light from distant objects. This allows the viewer to see objects at a far distance such as the Moon and other celestial bodies.


KonusMotor 130

Galileo is responsible for introducing the telescope to the scientific community at large in 1609. He was the first person on Earth to see the Moon's craters. His invention set the stage for other telescope inventors to work on creating telescopes that could see at further distances.

Konus telescopes have been manufactured since 1979. The company produces a range of telescopes from refractors, Newtonians to Schmidt-Cassegrains.

The average astronomy buff wants to look out into the solar system and see the rings of Saturn in all of its glory. There are many telescope brands on the market and finding an instrument that delivers is daunting to the prospective telescope buyer. Konus telescopes bring great quality to the market. What better way to view the Moon than with a Konus telescope?

A Wide Assortment

The company is based in Italy and makes a wide assortment of products including compasses, altimeters, binoculars, spotting scopes, professional microscopes, rifle scopes, night viewers, sunglasses, meteo instruments, watches, clocks and of course the Konus telescopes. Konus products are precision made, displaying the quality that made the company famous.

Types Of Telescopes


Konusky 200

Konus telescopes cover a large assortment of products from the beginner to the scientist. The KonusStart 700 is recommended for children. It is a good refractor telescope on a table tripod with a 5 x 24 finder-scope and diagonal mirror. For the young set, this Konus telescope features magnifications at 100x and 48x. The instructions for this instrument come in eight languages.

Another fine Konus telescope is the KonusMotor-500 . It delivers superb optical and mechanical quality. It is perfect for astronomical viewing and observation. It includes a wide range of great features including an electric focuser, Right Ascencion motor drive and the "Sky-Explorer" software and Moon filter. One of Konus's top reflector telescopes is the Konusky 200 , a 200mm (8-inch) 'scope. It is great for amateur astronomers who want a great degree of detail.

The KonusMotor 130 is a Newtonian recommended for viewing bright deep-sky objects. The diameter is 130 mm (5") with a length of 1000mm (39") and a focal ratio of f/8. The magnification with the supplied eye pieces are 100x and 58x.

Konus brings great telescopes into the hands of budding young scientists and to astronomy professionals around the world. Their quality and detail makes their products unique.

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Konus Telescopes News

A Trio of Super-Earths

16 Jun 2008 at 12:30am  ESO 19/08 - Science Release: Using the HARPS instrument at the ESO La Silla Observatory, European astronomers have found a system of three super-Earths around the star HD 40307. The astronomers also found that one solar-like star out of three harbours short orbit, low-mass planets. Read more...

Shaw Prize Goes to Reinhard Genzel

10 Jun 2008 at 7:00am  ESO 18/08 - Organisation Release: The Shaw Prize in Astronomy for 2008 is awarded to Professor Reinhard Genzel, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE), in recognition of his outstanding contribution in demonstrating that the Milky Way contains a supermassive black hole at its centre, a result largely obtained with the help of ESO's telescopes. Read more...

The Perfect Science Machine

27 May 2008 at 8:00am  ESO 16/08 - Organisation Release: Today marks the 10th anniversary since First Light with ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), the most advanced optical telescope in the world. Since then, the VLT has evolved into a unique suite of four 8.2-m Unit Telescopes (UTs) equipped with no fewer than 13 state-of-the-art instruments, and four 1.8-m moveable Auxiliary Telescopes (ATs). Read more...

The Little Man and the Cosmic Cauldron

27 May 2008 at 8:00am  ESO 17/08 - Press Photo: On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Very Large Telescope's First Light, ESO is releasing two stunning images of different kinds of nebulae, located towards the Carina constellation. The first one, Eta Carinae, has the shape of a 'little man' and surrounds a star doomed to explode within the next 100 000 years. The second image features a much larger nebula, whose internal turmoil is created by a cluster of young, massive stars. Read more...

The Behemoth Has a Thick Belt

27 May 2008 at 3:00am  ESO 15/08 - Science Release: Talk about a diet! By resolving, for the first time, features of an individual star in a neighbouring galaxy, ESO's VLT has allowed astronomers to determine that it weighs almost half of what was previously thought, thereby solving the mystery of its existence. The behemoth star is found to be surrounded by a massive and thick torus of gas and dust, and is most likely experiencing unstable, violent mass loss. Read more...

A Molecular Thermometer for the Distant Universe

12 May 2008 at 3:01pm  ESO 13/08 - Science Release: Astronomers have made use of ESO's Very Large Telescope to detect for the first time in the ultraviolet the carbon monoxide molecule in a galaxy located almost 11 billion light-years away, a feat that had remained elusive for 25 years. This detection allows them to obtain the most precise measurement of the cosmic temperature at such a remote epoch. Read more...

Solar Games at Paranal

2 May 2008 at 5:00am  ESO 12/08 - Press Photo: Cerro Paranal, home of ESO's Very Large Telescope, is certainly one of the best astronomical sites on the planet. Stunning images, obtained by ESO staff at Paranal, of the green and blue flashes, as well as of the so-called 'Gegenschein', are real cases in point. Read more...