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Vixen 39955 VMC110L Telescope and Porta II Mount
RatingCustomer rating is 5 of 5
BrandVIXEN
List Price$499.00
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Features
  • VMC110L 110mm f/9.4 Telescope
  • Build in Flip Mirror and Dot Finder
  • Features Vixen's Universal Dovetail Plate
  • Porta II Mount with locking extension legs, accessory tray and flexible handle slow motion control.
  • Porta II has a removable head to place on other tripods.
Categories Catadioptric  

Description
Tack sharp telescope together with more aperture for deep sky views. Here is one of the excellent multiple purpose grab and go telescopes this is as completely suited for looking at the stars as it is the bird in the tree half a mile away.Don’t let its diminutive size and weight fool you, many telescopes like this design are used for research all-around the globe and even outside our atmosphere! You are sure to be blown away by its snap focus and razor like pictures.The PORTA II provides excellent performance when viewing objects at high magnification, the damping and vibration being significantly reduced as compared to other lesser excellence telescope mounts.

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Customer Reviews
Customer rating is 5 of 5  VMC110L and Porta Mount   2010-04-08
By Gene Statz
The VMC110L is a small 110mm maksutov made by Vixen. Vixen has put together a great combination of features all in a compact telescope that can be taken as carry-on. They have replaced the traditional large corrector plate of the mak with a lens in front of the secondary. This has the effect of making the telescope quite light for a mak and it eliminates the dew issues. In order to do this, they had to put in a spider, but with curved vanes, there are no diffraction spikes in the image.


This telescope comes with a built in flip mirror in the back that allows you to quickly switch between the eyepiece view and a camera, should you attach one to the rear. While this feature isn't revolutionary, the fact that they have t-threads already built into the rear of the scope makes it more user friendly and you won't need any proprietary adapters, just a simple t-ring.


The VMC110L comes with a Vixen dovetail that will fit to most modern mounts that use what is becoming the standard to mount scopes. This dovetail can be moved from the side to the bottom of the scope so you can mount it vertically or horizontally. There is also ¼ 20 screw holes so that the scope can also be mounted directly to a standard tripod.


The accessories that come with this telescope are well made and compliment the scope well. The 25mm plossl has good eye relief, adjustable eye relief cup and is optically very good. The scope also comes with a red dot finder, which I find to be much more useful that a traditional small optical finder. By being able to see the whole sky with a red dot over it, you can easily aim the scope exactly where you want it. Traditional finders give you a limited, magnified, upside down backwards image that can be hard for beginners to use.


I have had the pleasure of trying out several of these 110s and the only issues I was able to find were collimation and the tightness of the front lens cap. I received one that was out of collimation due to shipping. In order to collimate the scope, I had to remove two small rubber plugs on the back and remove the flip mirror knob. Once collimated, the scope gave excellent images. The front cap was tight on most of the 110s that I reviewed, but that can be seen as a good or bad. I had to really pull to get the cap off, but unlike most telescopes out there, I can be assured this lens cap won't fall off.


I found the VMC110L an excellent small scope, especially for traveling. Its combination of portability, ease of use and compatibility make it an excellent choice for taking along on trips. It works great as a daytime spotting scope as well as an astronomical instrument. I would recommend this scope to anyone wanting a grab and go in a compact well thought out package.


Porta Mount


The Vixen Porta Mount is an Alt Az mount made for small telescopes up to about 15 lbs. It can be purchased in a package with a VMC110L or other small scopes, or by itself. The Porta Mount can be moved manually by grabbing a hold of the telescope and pushing it to where you would like to look. It then has slow motion controls to make fine adjustments and keep objects in the eyepiece. The telescope can be side mounted using a vixen style dovetail or you can mount vertically with a right angle adapter bracket. Tension on both axis can be adjusted with the built in allan wrenches that can be found under the rubber piece on the head. With these wrenches, you can also set the handle orientation to the telescope how you prefer, which does come in handy.


I found this mount to be the best Alt Az mount that I have ever used. I have put everything from small refractors, to the VMC110L, Celestron's C5 and C6 to their C8 on this mount. They all worked great, although the C8 had some limited motion in the vertical because of its width. The mount was stable enough to look at the planets at 200x and the slow motion knob come in very handy at this kind of power. Another advantage to this mount is its light, portable and makes a great grab and go.

I would highly recommend this mount for anyone with a small scope. I actually found that I used my scope far more with this mount due to its ease of use and its portability.



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