The 16-inch, f/12 Cassegrain telescope was added to the SBO collection of pier-mounted telescopes in 1987 (and retired in 2017), after the roll-off roof addition to the student observing deck was ...
At its core it’s a Newtonian reflector telescope like many others available on the market, but the Sky-Watcher Explorer 130 EQ2 has something different in the shape of its equatorial mount (EQ).