Orion Telescopes: Top 10 with prices, review and specs

The Starblast 4.5 EQ is a favourite of both beginners and experts. Orion has combined the extremely functional StarBlast 4.5” reflector telescope with a wide (f/4.0) eyepiece. It also combines a complete German equatorial telescope mount and an adjustable tripod. The telescope’s superb expanse fully-coated 15 mm and 6 mm 1.25" eyepieces provide clear, sharp images at magnifications of 30x and 75x.

This telescope is a perfect combination of power and portability. Easy to use alignment technology along with a large in-built database of 4,000 celestial bodies, spells out its capabilities. The StarSeeker 130 mm GoTo Reflector provides a wide field of view with its 5.1: focal length. It also includes two 1.25” Kellner eyepieces for good magnification.

This “gentle giant” Orion XT10 Classic Dobsonian telescope fetches complete 5-star ratings from its customers. The telescope gives you a thrilling adventure with its perfect parabolic mirror fitted well in a steel optical tube. Its high 10 inch optics, simple design, and low price make it the most capable and equipped telescope. The tube rests on a Dobsonian base allowing easy point-and-view navigation. It is also equipped with a 2 inch Crayford focuser, 25 mm Sirius Plossl eyepiece, and a quick collimation cap.

This telescope is a value pack containing the best selling telescope and the versatile Barlow kit. The XT8 Classic Dobsonian telescope has powerful optics with an 8 inch parabolic primary mirror. A gentle click on the navigation knob places you at the correct observing point. The Sirius Plossl 25 mm eyepiece provides a 48x power magnification.

The Apex 90 mm Maksutov-Cassegrain Telescope has an amazing output quality, in spite of its simplicity and small package. Comprised of 11 inches of tube length, small 90 mm aperture, and 1250 mm of focal length, the telescope produces high image scale and excellent optics. It also includes a 25 mm Sirius Plossl eyepiece, 6x20 correct image finderscope, and a 45 degree correct image diagonal.

This telescope exhibits stunning details of faint galaxies and nebulas with limited exposure time. The 10” parabolic optics with fast f/3.9 focal ratio provides exceptionally wide field. The 82 mm minor axis and secondary axis provide excellent illumination with modern CCD imagers and DSLR cameras.

The tabletop Orion StarBlast 6i Intelliscope can make you and your family view over 14,000 celestial objects of the dark sky. The initially popular and portable 6” f/5.0 reflector is now available with Orion’s Intelliscope object location system. The appliance has a small, lightweight, and robust engineering system with easy point-and-view functionality and adjustable altitude tension.

The SkyQuest XT4.5 is an excellent performer to make stargazing an absolute fun. It is the smallest of the Dobsonian line of Orion’s telescopes and gives sharp, clear views when properly aligned. Its large optical diameter of 4.5” (114 mm) gathers plenty of light (260% more than a 60 mm refractor) for detailed vision of celestial objects.

The Orion SkyScanner 100 mm TableTop Reflector is powerful enough to study the moon’s cratered surface or objects as deep as the Milky Way. The telescope is perfect for beginners and is just the right size to view clear details of the night sky. Its 100 mm aperture and large 400 mm focal length can gather enough light for viewing bright planets like Jupiter, Saturn, and Mars or for exploring highland mountains.

This remarkable telescope is a nicely portable package, combining powerful 203 mm reflector optics and the Go To system helping a stargazer to access a location. The SkyQuest XT8g telescope provides for viewing more than 42,000 objects in the night sky. Its high torque motors and high resolution encoders help pointing to any of these vast number of objects. The telescope is packed with a 1200 mm parabolic mirror made from low thermal expansion optical glass, with increased reflectivity aluminium coating of up to 94% to create high definition images.