Product details
- ULTIMA ANGLED ZOOM SPOTTING SCOPE: This versatile all-around spotting scope with an 80mm objective lens, 20-60x zoom, and a 45° viewing angle is the ideal choice for any outdoor enthusiast. It’s perfect for observing nature and long-distance viewing.
- INCLUDES ESSENTIALS FOR BETTER VIEWING: The Celestron Ultima 80 comes complete with a soft carrying case, an extended tripod mounting plate, a zoom eyepiece with an integrated T-adapter for digiscoping, an eyepiece pouch, a lens cloth, and more.
- MULTI-COATED OPTICS: Every lens surface is coated multiple times with anti-reflective coatings to improve color and contrast and maximize brightness. You’ll enjoy brighter and sharper images, even when ambient lighting conditions are dim.
- SHARP ZOOM EYEPIECE FUNCTION: The large focus dial allows you to bring your subject into razor-sharp focus before it moves away. The powerful 20-60x zoom eyepiece helps you zero in for detailed views of distant subjects in seconds.
- UNBEATABLE WARRANTY & CUSTOMER SUPPORT: Buy with confidence from Celestron, a leading optics brand in California since 1960. Your purchase includes a Celestron Limited Lifetime US Warranty & US-based expert tech support.
| Brand | Celestron |
| Objective Lens Diameter | 80 Millimeters |
| Product Dimensions | 7.5″D x 3.5″W x 19.3″H |
| Focus Type | Manual Focus |
| Finderscope | Reflex |
| Item Weight | 3.6 Pounds |
| Lens Coating Description | Multi-Coated |
JEMIGO –
Belle prestation
Randers327 –
Clear optics’s. Easy to use. Affordable. Love it!
kidtree –
Added 2/9/2016: I’ve used it on 300-yard targets now, and my .223″ / 5.56 mm holes are visible, especially on white paper. Holes in the colored part are harder, of course, but visible.
I also want to mention that the focus knob is perfect. It turns easily and smoothly, without being loose. It’s placed on top, just behind the tripod mounting point, so you can rest your hand over the balance point of the scope and gently roll one finger over the focus knob, causing very little motion in the image.
[Original text –>] I read a lot of reviews and Q & A’s on Amazon before purchasing the Celestron 80mm Ultima Zoom, and I have a little to add for future shoppers. While I hope to use this for viewing wildlife and maybe the moon and neighboring planets, I bought it mainly for rifle shooting, to see little holes in paper downrange. The photos I’m posting today are all the same shot through the scope, left full-frame to show how my smartphone camera sees it, and cropped to better see the holes. The target is 200 yards away, and the holes are .223 inch / 5.56mm. The grid lines on the targets are spaced at 1 inch / 25mm. Camera was an LG G4 smartphone, mounted to the Celestron’s eyepiece with a Gosky Universal Cell Phone Adapter Mount, also purchased from Amazon. Photo conditions were less than ideal: a very gray afternoon, shooting through 200 yards of light rain.
The full-frame photo was reduced in size from 5212 x 2988 down to 1600 x 900, in hopes Amazon won’t ruin it with extreme compression. The other two were severely cropped, but left at full resolution to show detail. It was taken at 60X, the maximum zoom, and the image suffers a bit from being pushed to the max, but not terribly. The colors aren’t as sharp as at the lower end of the zoom range, and as other reviewers have mentioned, that’s a compromise. If you want perfect sharpness through the whole zoom range, buy the ED (Extra Dispersion) version of the scope. It’s built with lens elements made of more exotic glass that corrects the focus of the different colors of light. It will cost you about 4 times as much. This Ultima 80 is good enough for me.
Something I hadn’t noticed until I viewed the photos is the curvature of the bottom board of the target frame. That’s not bent wood, it’s a defect of the scope, called pincushion distortion. If I was using the scope for some kind of architectural photography, where straight lines must show straight, this would be a problem, but I bought this to see where holes are punched in paper, and a bit of curvature is no problem at all. If you’re photographing duck on a pond surface and don’t want your water horizon to be curved, position the scope so that horizon is in the center of the frame. The top board of the target frame is centered, and it doesn’t look bent at all. Better yet, back off the zoom to a lower ratio and get straighter lines and a sharper image.
The two detail shots aren’t perfectly sharp, but more than good enough to see every hole, even the ones in the dark blue target. I’m impressed. The range I go to also has targets at 300 yards. That might be pushing this scope’s capability. I’ll try it some time when I have better weather and have settled on ammunition I can trust to fly straight that far.
On the drive home from the range I passed a tree with a huge new nest in it, and today a bald eagle was perched near it. But I was cold and tired, and if I’d stopped and got out of the car to reach the scope in the back, the eagle would have left. Would have been a great inaugural wildlife shot for my new spotting scope, but I’m left with only the memory of it, and you’ll have to picture it in your mind until you get your own spotting scope and venture into eagle country. Hope you like yours; it’s just right for me, at a price I can justify.
Si Chen –
Great value for money
Patrice A. Bahnsen –
Bought this for my husbands’ birthday, and love it! We own a telescope and binoculars and this beats them both. Not high end nor inexpensive , this mid-priced scope is just what we wanted to observe local wild life, ships out in the water, and even details in a church on a hill clear across town that looks like a little dot without any magnification.
David Caballero –
Pesa mucho menos de lo que me esperaba. Para este rango de precios la calidad óptica es insuperable. Pierde un poco a 60 aumentos, pero es 100% utilizable. Con un buen trípode es perfecto para avistamiento de aves.
Siniak Didier –
Notre habitation est face au golfe de Saint Tropez (10 kms) nous voyons clairement le clocher ….les bateaux à leur arrivée et en ce moment “les voiles de saint Tropez “
Lek –
After going on a few bird walks with our local Audubon Society, I decided to bring my own scope. I’m using this primarily for birdwatching. If you haven’t tried it for birdwatching, a scope is much better than binoculars once you have found your subject. The key factor being a higher magnification with no shaking. Your tripod has a lot to do with that so make sure it’s pretty steady and the right height. The scope yields nice sharp images at 20 power, but as you increase power on the zoom eyepice, the image does degrade a bit, some refocusing will be necessary. The blue fringing becomes quite noticeable at 60 power. Still reasonably sharp. Focus helps, but the fringing is purely because it does not have the ED glass. Those scopes will cost about three times more. For the money, this is a wonderful value. I highly recommend it. For the semi casual birder or backyard viewer it’s ideal! The 80 mm objective means nice, bright views, and decent field of view so finding your subject becomes a little easier. The little slight tube on the side helps to get the scope in the general direction you’d like it to be. The build is nice and sturdy with a metal main tube. Be careful installing the eyepiece when you receive it. The threads are quite fine and easily damaged. Once assembled, you probably won’t be disassembling it. It comes with a cheap-feeling lightly padded zipper case that can be applied to the scope, while it is mounted to the tripod. A handy feature for storing or just walking around, or putting in your trunk. Great choice for the budget conscious birder.
Chris –
Awesome spotting scope for the money. Clear glass, great clarity at short and close ranges. Highly recommend.
Devouchka –
Tres bon materiel, pour un prix tres doux. A 200 m on voit bien les impacts pour les tireurs sportifs. Pour le prix, c’est extrêmement intéressant. Très lumineuse .