KONUS KONUSPACE-6 Refractor Telescope – Your First Step to the Stars

The KONUS KONUSPACE-6 is a premium entry-level telescope for anyone who wants to start exploring the night sky without a steep learning curve. The 60mm lens and 800mm focal length give you exceptional optical performance, while the whole package is incredibly simple to set up and use.

No-Frustration Stargazing

Unlike complex computerized telescopes that require calibration, the KONUSPACE-6 is ready to use in minutes. Just point it at your target, and use the smooth manual controls to track your object as it moves across the sky. The design is so intuitive that children can set it up independently, while adults will appreciate the straightforward approach.

Key features include:

• A slow-motion control knob for easy tracking.

• A sturdy metal tripod that adjusts to your height.

• A 5x24 finderscope to quickly locate objects.

What Can You See?

This telescope is a window to the cosmos. Here's what you can expect to see:

• The Moon: Get lost in breathtaking detail, from massive craters to towering mountain ranges casting dramatic shadows.

• Jupiter: See the planet's cloud belts and its four largest moons—Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto—as they orbit the gas giant.

• Saturn: Witness the spectacular rings, see the Cassini Division that separates them, and spot its largest moon, Titan.

• And Beyond: Explore the phases of Venus, Mars's polar ice caps, the glittering Pleiades star cluster, and even the fuzzy glow of the Andromeda Galaxy.

Technical Specifications

Bottom Line

The KONUSPACE-6 is simple enough for a child, yet powerful enough for a serious observer. It's the perfect way to get started in astronomy, offering genuine celestial wonders without the frustration. Order yours today and begin your journey to the stars!

What you see on the Moon

With KONUSPACE-6 you’re not just “seeing the Moon”, you’re resolving specific named formations:

• Large craters like Tycho (~85 km across), Copernicus (~93 km), Plato (~101 km), Clavius (~225 km) are easily visible with sharply defined rims and central peaks.

• Medium craters around 20–40 km in diameter become clearly separated—chains of smaller craters are no longer a blur but distinct pits.

• Under steady air, you can pick out craterlets and rilles in the 5–10 km range near the terminator (day–night boundary), where long shadows enhance relief.

• Lunar maria (Mare Imbrium, Mare Tranquillitatis, etc.) appear as smooth, darker basaltic “seas” contrasted against the brighter, heavily cratered highlands.

• The terminator line itself shows dramatic three‑dimensional relief: mountain ranges projecting long shadows and crater rims lit on one side only.

With a lunar (Moon) filter, you can comfortably observe even around full Moon and tease out low‑contrast details that would otherwise be washed out.

Planetary detail – what’s realistic

Jupiter

• Angular size at opposition: typically ~40–45 arcseconds, easily a small disk, not a point.

• You will see at least two main cloud belts (North and South Equatorial Belts), often more subtle bands in good seeing.

• The four Galilean moons (Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto) are always visible as star‑like points; you can watch their positions change from hour to hour and night to night.

• Occasionally, you may glimpse the shadow of a moon transiting across Jupiter’s disk as a small, sharp black dot.

Saturn

• Angular size of the disk around opposition: ~17–20 arcseconds; with rings, the full span is ~40 arcseconds, so the ring system is obvious.

• You can see the ring system as a flattened ellipse clearly separated from the planet’s disk; under steady skies, the Cassini Division (the main dark gap between A and B rings) is sometimes visible as a thin dark line.

• The largest moon Titan is easily visible as a bright “star” nearby; on very good nights, one or two smaller moons (like Rhea) may also be detectable.

Venus, Mars, Mercury

• Venus: clearly shows phases (crescent, half, gibbous) similar to the Moon; the disk is bright and large enough that the changing shape is obvious.

• Mars: near favorable opposition, you can resolve a small disk with polar caps as bright white spots and sometimes darker surface areas under good seeing.

• Mercury: appears very small but its crescent phase can be detected when the planet is high enough above the horizon in a stable atmosphere.

Deep-sky: what a 60 mm can reasonably show

A 60 mm refractor is not a “deep‑sky monster”, but under dark skies it still reveals a surprising amount:

• Open clusters like the Pleiades (M45) become groups of dozens of pinpoint stars; the Hyades show clear three‑dimensional depth.

• Globular cluster M13 in Hercules appears as a condensed ball of grainy light; you won’t fully resolve its core, but the outer parts show many tiny stars.

• The Orion Nebula (M42) is visible as a bright, wing‑shaped glow with the Trapezium star cluster resolved at its heart; structure and dark lanes are visible in good conditions.

• The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) is seen as an extended oval patch larger than the full Moon; you don’t get spiral detail, but its enormous size and brightness are obvious, especially under dark skies.

Ease of setup – why this matters for seeing all that detail

All of this is only useful if you actually get the telescope outside and pointed at the sky. The KONUSPACE‑6 makes that easy:

• The alt‑azimuth mount with slow‑motion control lets you follow the Moon or planets smoothly without them jumping out of view.

• The adjustable metal tripod keeps the image steady; vibrations are minimal, which is crucial when you’re trying to see fine details like the Cassini Division or small lunar craters.

• With practice, you can be set up, aligned on the Moon or Jupiter, and observing within 5–10 minutes of stepping outside.

So in practical terms: you’ll clearly see big, named lunar craters tens of kilometres wide, resolve lunar features down into the single‑digit kilometre range on good nights, watch Jupiter’s belts and moons, see Saturn’s rings as a distinct structure, follow planetary phases, and enjoy the brighter star clusters and nebulae—all with a telescope that stays simple enough to use every clear night.