This unusual pick up and go telescope is a joy to use.  It’s a home-built large objective wide-field refractor in a Dobsonian mount.  Easily transportable, it only has two parts: the base and the tube.  The objective is almost 5” across, and it has a single fixed eyepiece.  Telescopes don’t get much simpler than this.  It’s designed to be used while it sits on a table.  Pull out the eyepiece for coarse focus, twist it for fine focus control.  The field of view is about one quarter that of 7x50 binoculars.  The stars are crisp, with very little distortion until the edge of the view.  Unlike all other mounts, the eyepiece in this telescope is always at the same height.

Total weight is about 23 pounds.  The tube is 14.5 pounds.  60cm focal length.  

Currently missing the 140mm objective dust cap and the 35mm eyepiece dust cap.