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Bushnell Astronomical Voyager with Sky Tour 700mm x 3-Inch Reflector Telescope

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• 700 x 76 millimeter reflector telescope
• LCD handset
• Illuminated smart mount
• Beginner telescope with 700mm focal length and 3-inch reflector
• Illuminated Smart Mount points the way to constellations and planets
• Talking handset keeps you engaged with facts and mythology tidbits
• LED red dot finderscope for fast positioning; sturdy preassembled construction
• Three 1.25-inch eyepieces (4mm, 8mm, and 12.5mm); quick-release tripod

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Bring the wonders of the night sky, straight to your backyard. The ultimate first telescope, our Voyager sky tour series gives amateur stargazers a pro-grade audio tour of the night sky. Its illuminated smart mount points the way as the talking handset describes constellations and planets, and keeps you engaged with entertaining facts and mythology tidbits. Keeping pace is easy with the LED red dot finder scope. You're an instant expert with the sky tour series.

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Bushnell 789931 voyager sky tour 700mm x 3-inch reflector telescope.

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Bushnell Voyager Sky Tour 60mm Reflector Telescope

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• Sky Tour 700 x 60-millimeter Refractor telescope with illuminated smart mount
• Illuminated Smart Mount guides you to the objects highlighted by the Handset
• Electronic Sky Tour handset provides a real-time audio tour of the night sky
• LED electronic red dot finderscope for fast positioning
• Comes with large, 1.25-inch diameter eyepieces; sturdy, preassembled construction

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The ultimate first telescope, the new Voyager® Sky Tour gives amateur stargazers a pro-grade audio tour of the night sky. Its illuminated Smart Mount points the way as the talking handset describes constellations and planets, and keeps you engaged with entertaining facts and mythology tidbits.

• Electronic Sky Tour handset gives you a real-time audio tour of the night sky
• Large 1.25-inch diameter eyepieces included
• Magnifications: 56x, 88x
• Specifications: 700 x 60-millimeter, Refractor
• Mount: Illuminated Smart Mount
• Length: 700 millimeters

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Bushnell Voyager 700x76mm Reflector Telescope Review

When you read one of my reviews at TelescopicWatch, you can trust that not only have I gotten to use the product, but I’ve compared it to numerous others and tinkered with it down to the literal nuts and bolts. When I'm not writing reviews, I'm out under the night sky with my own homemade or modified telescopes, with over 7 years of hands-on experience in astronomy, having owned 430 telescopes myself, of which 20 I built entirely.

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The Bushnell Voyager 700x76mm Reflector Telescope is definitely one of the lesser-quality telescopes I have reviewed, though not the worst. There are definitely some good ideas and commendable features here, and clearly, some work was put into the design. However, the execution of the scope’s design is basically a failure, and the included accessories are among the worst I’ve ever seen.

The 76mm Newtonian Optical Tube Performance

The Bushnell Voyager 700x76mm Reflector Telescope is, as the name says, a 76mm (3”) Newtonian reflector with a 700mm focal length, making it f/9.2. It has a spherical primary mirror, but with a 3” f/9.2 mirror a sphere deviates so slightly from a parabola that it falls well within the tolerances as to what is considered acceptable for a telescope’s primary mirror.

The optics in this scope are about the only thing I can really say is good about it; everything is just downhill quality-wise from here on.

The Voyager 700x76mm does, oddly enough for such a cheaply-made scope, have a 1.25” focuser. However, it is all plastic and doesn’t work particularly well.

The optical tube attaches to the mount via the most simplistic system I have ever seen on a commercial telescope – two wingnuts attaching to bolts through the tube. The last time this was acceptable on a consumer-grade telescope was in the 1960s, with telescopes such as the Edmund Space Conqueror and Super Space Conqueror – and even back then, people complained about how cheap and inconvenient it was! The wingnuts are quite small and easy to use, and prevent one from sliding or rotating the telescope tube to balance it or move the eyepiece to a convenient location; additionally, the bolts are annoying to deal with when transporting the scope.

Reviewing The Accessories

The Voyager 700x76mm comes with three Huygens eyepieces: A 12.5mm (56x), an 8mm (88x) and a 4mm (176x). These eyepieces are almost entirely useless, with narrow and aberrated fields of view and tiny lenses. Additionally, there’s no low-power eyepiece with a focal length of above 20mm, and the 4mm eyepiece provides too much magnification for the telescope to handle. Strangely enough, Bushnell doesn’t include a cheap Barlow lens or market it on the basis of “power”, so why they put a 4mm Huygens in and didn’t include a low-power eyepiece puzzles me.

The Voyager comes with a strange “Sky Tour” device that gives you coordinates to find the object of your choice using the scope’s setting circles, as well as a talking voice to tell you interesting facts and information about the objects you select. For whatever reason, rather than including an actual object catalog the Sky Tour merely enables you to find constellations (why you’d do this with a telescope is beyond me), tells you about mythology (mildly interesting, I suppose), and helps you find the planets (which you really don’t need assistance finding as you can literally see five of the seven observable ones with the naked eye; Uranus and Neptune are pretty unremarkable with a 3” telescope anyway). I think the constellation mode can give you a tour of deep-sky objects, but the whole system is convoluted enough that I haven’t figured out how to use it. Thankfully, none of this matters because an app like SkySafari for your phone or Stellarium for your PC can give you the altitude/azimuth coordinates of anything without having to navigate a keypad to do it.

Aside from the fact that in 2019 you can just use an app to get coordinates and information of sky objects, using the setting circles has other challenges we’ll go into momentarily.

The included red dot finder is absolute garbage and is hard to get working or aligned at all. It is amazing that Bushnell failed on this seeing as a decent red-dot finder can now be obtained for under twenty dollars.

About The Unique Voyager Mount

The Voyager 700x76mm has one of the most unusual mounts I have ever seen on a modern telescope. The design is similar to that of a camera tripod, with an alt-azimuth configuration that places the tube on top of the altitude axis – albeit lacking in any kind of handle to move the telescope around.

The result of having the tube above the altitude axis is that it will not balance at certain altitudes without tightening the altitude clutch, which is a pain. There are (primitive) slow-motion knobs affixed to the mount.

The mount has setting circles on both axes which, when combined with coordinates provided by the Sky Tour device (or your phone) can theoretically allow you to locate objects with pinpoint precision. There’s even a small illuminator for them built into the telescope. However, the altitude axis issues and the small size of these setting circles means that this all is little more than a pretty gimmick; you’d be lucky to get the target in the field of view at all and the lack of quality of the included eyepieces certainly doesn’t help.

The Voyager 700x76mm’s tripod legs are extruded aluminum, and for once are actually the strongest selling point of this telescope as they actually carry the mount head and OTA remarkably well.

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Final Verdict

It’d be all too easy to say that no thought besides making a quick buck was put into the design and manufacture of the Bushnell Voyager 700x76mm Reflector. From my analysis, I can say that there actually was some thought put into it, and definitely some good ideas.

The setting circle system, if well-executed, would honestly be a really great feature if the circles were enlarged  – I see plenty of people copying the system on the Voyager for large Dobsonians and using it to great effect. And the fact that the scope isn’t actually undermounted is commendable.

Even if you just replaced the eyepieces and finderscope this scope would be pretty good.

Alas, the commendable good ideas are completely ruined by the fact that the Voyager’s accessories are completely useless and the sloppy execution of the setting circles and mount head. It’s a real shame because Bushnell actually came pretty close to achieving a quality product.

Zane Landers

An amateur astronomer and telescope maker from Connecticut who has been featured on TIME magazine ,  National Geographic ,  La Vanguardia , and  Clarin , The Guardian , The Arizona Daily Star , and Astronomy Technology Today and had won the Stellafane 1st and 3rd place Junior Awards in the 2018 Convention. Zane has owned over 425 telescopes, of which around 400 he has actually gotten to take out under the stars. These range from the stuff we review on TelescopicWatch to homemade or antique telescopes; the oldest he has owned or worked on so far was an Emil Busch refractor made shortly before the outbreak of World War I. Many of these are telescopes that he repaired or built.

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Thank you for this review. If I may ask, There is a place for a small watch sized battery in the red dot finder. Does this require one or two batteries?

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Bushnell 800x70mm Voyager Refractor Sky Tour Telescope 789971

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Bushnell 800x70mm Voyager Refractor Sky Tour Telescope has been discontinued by Bushnell and is no longer available. Our product experts have helped us select these available replacements below.You can also explore other items in the Telescopes yourself to try and find the perfect replacement for you!

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Specifications for bushnell 70mm sky tour voyager refractor telescopes 78-9971:, features of bushnell 800mm x 70mm voyager sky tour telescope:.

• Electronic Sky Tour handset gives you a real-time audio tour of the night sky with adjustable volume and choice of lanGauge
• Discover constellations, mythology, amazing facts and planets
• Illuminated SMart Mount guides you to the objects highlighted by the handset with backlit LED display
• LED electronic red dot finderscope for fast positioning
• Large 1.25" diameter eyepieces
• Sturdy preassembled construction
• The ultimate first telescope

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Bushnell Voyager Sky Tour 900mm x 4.5" Reflector Telescope 789945

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Large reflector telescopes that guide you across the night sky with real-time audio and our Illuminated Smart Mounts. Barlow lens included .

The ultimate first telescope , our new Voyager Sky Tour series gives amateur stargazers a pro-grade audio tour of the night sky. Its Illuminated Smart Mount points the way as the talking handset describes constellations and planets, and keeps you engaged with entertaining facts and mythology tidbits. Keeping pace is easy with the LED red dot finderscope. You're an instant expert with the Sky Tour series.

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Features of Bushnell Voyager Sky Tour 900 mm x 4.5" Reflector Telescope 78-9945:

• Electronic Sky Tour handset gives you a real-time audio tour of the night sky
• Discover constellations, mythology, amazing facts and planets
• Illuminated Smart Mount guides you to the objects highlighted by the Handset
• LED electronic red dot finderscope for fast positioning
• Large 1.25" diameter eyepieces
• Sturdy preassembled construction
• The ultimate first telescope