Price: $269.99
(as of Dec 22, 2024 18:19:13 UTC - Details)

The Celestron Ultima 80 series was designed to perform well in a range of viewing situations. Outdoor enthusiasts and adventurers will love it for observing nature and sharp long-distance spotting. The 80mm refractor features excellent multi-coated optics packed into a portable and durable housing and includes a powerful 20-60x zoom eyepiece.

The Ultima spotting scope is completely waterproof and fogproof. It’s been filled with dry nitrogen gas and sealed to prevent internal fogging of the lenses. You’ll be able to enjoy your viewing activities to the fullest even during extreme weather conditions! The Ultima 80 angled spotting scope also includes a T-mount adapter for digiscoping; this allows you to capture bright, sharp images through your spotting scope. Simply attach your DSLR camera equipped with a T-ring, and you’re ready to go! Or capture and share images and videos of your discoveries quickly with the bonus smartphone adapter.

Each Celestron optical product is engineered for the highest performance, durability, and quality in its class. Celestron optics provide you with a lifetime of viewing enjoyment at an unbeatable value! Buy with confidence from the world’s #1 telescope brand and a leading sport optics brand, based in California since 1960. You’ll also receive a Limited Lifetime warranty and unlimited access to technical support from our team of US-based experts.
Compact And Portable: Celestron Ultima has a rugged and portable design which makes it easy to transport anywhere
Ways To Observe: The Ultima spotting scope is tripod adaptable, providing a variety of options for viewing. This spotting scope can easily be secured to a stable platform for comfortable long-duration or long-distance viewing
Unique Features: The Ultima Spotting Scope features a 45 degree viewing angle, excellent fully multi-coated optics, and a versatile 20-60x zoom eyepiece
Capture Content Via Phone: Allows your phone to capture stunning images of wildlife, distant objects, and even the Moon at night
Perfect for a Variety of Uses: The Ultima 80 angled spotting scope comes with a 20-60x zoom eyepiece. Use the lower magnifications to scan the landscape and quickly punch in for detailed, up-close views of small subjects when needed. The large, ergonomic focus knob ensures your object is always in clear view. Both the zoom and focus knobs come with a rubber grip for easy adjustments while wearing gloves
Reviewer: XtraBlu
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Best Scope Out There For the Price!
Review: Since I'm reading several reviews for this product from unrealistic people who seem to expect $2500 performance from a sub $200 scope, please keep in mind I am reviewing a $160 scope, and not a $2500 dollar scope, and FOR THE MONEY (and over YEARS of use) I've found this to be an awesome little scope. As a tour guide, I don't want to spend a huge amount on a spotting scope to use on tours that is going to get kicked, knocked over, thrown on a dusty van floor and generally abused in situations involving crowds of people. My first Celestron scope was irreparably damaged by an unfortunate incident where it got knocked over and struck a boulder in Yellowstone and lost its focus, but by that time I'd had years of good service out of it, so for the price of a new one, I wasn't upset over replacing it. This scope does the trick for wildlife viewing and birdwatching with very good resolution and durability. People are always impressed by the wonders of high magnification even when comparing an inexpensive scope with an expensive pair of binoculars. This scope certainly is subject to some chromatic fringing towards the edges (mostly noticeable in snowy terrain) but it doesn't detract too much and is still an excellent view, quite sharp and overall very nice. People are totally wowed the first time they see that moving dot in a meadow over a half mile away suddenly transformed into a bear! My only criticism would be that the zoom function is frankly rather worthless, especially at the higher end and I seldom use it. I also have had clients unscrew the eyepiece inadvertently while trying to focus, even though I demonstrate where the actual focus is, so I make sure I check that the eyepiece is on tight. You can bet that when my current scope has another accident, I'll be replacing it with this scope once again.

Reviewer: ZoePm
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: good for beginners
Review: Fast and good shippinggood packagingScope comes with a good, easy to use case. cel phone adapterImage is good till 40x, at 60x the chromatic distortion is big and quite evident, even a bit annoying as it affects definition and natural colors.Phone adapter is not easy to use. still trying to get the best of it.Besides that its an excellent equipment for beginners. You can see objects in a very long distance (a couple kms), it works pretty good on 20x and 40x, allowing you to have a good time enjoying birdwatching, its easy to focus and change optical distances.I'm quite happy with this scope, it will be used to work on a nature watching project with children so it will for sure be of good help.Its a very good price for what you get.

Reviewer: Rod B.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great scope cont'd...
Review: Humm, hit the tab key and my review in progress disappeared!The scope has a very nice overall fit and finish with good deep coatings on all visible lens surfaces. The focus knob is silky smooth with no detectable backlash. The eyepiece eye-relief is ample (I don't require glasses when viewing--see below) and the zoom is smooth. An audible sliding sound is heard when zooming, but it isn't objectionable.Speaking of glasses, if your glasses just correct for near or far sightedness, you don't really nead them at the scope; the focus range of the eyepiece will compensate for your correction without glasses. Those with astigmatism problems will need glasses however.Owning a premium 80mm ED telescope, I was able to do a side-by-side test with it and this scope. Overall, the optical performance is impressive. Some chromatic abberation is present at the higher magnifications, but even then, it wasn't objectionable. At 60X the ED scope clearly edged out the 52250, with sharper fine detail and a slightly brighter image. To be fair though, the ED telescope had fewer air-to-glass surfaces and the eyepieces (10mm and 30mm) were fixed focal length so that is to be expected. I'd say the Celestron 52250 gave 95% of the performance of the high-priced ED scope. At 20X I was hard pressed to see a significant difference. At 40-60X the image didn't have the crisp detail of the ED scope, but it was quite usable. Most of my birding is done at lower magnification anyway, so I'm not loosing much.On the moon, I was really impressed at an almost total lack of chromatic abberation! I could not see any "blue haze"--just a thin yellow edge. As a rough estimation of optical quality, I performed what is called a star test. In this test one looks at a star image inside and outside of focus. Frankly, I was very surprised by the test. I saw no optical defects and in fact, the patterns were text book perfect! It is amazing what can be done with computer generated optics these days.This isn't a $1000 scope, but if you want 90% of the performance at a fraction of the money, this scope will work for you. I'd recommend it to a friend. At the %154 price I paid for it, this is a real value!

Reviewer: WB
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Das Spektiv ist sehr wertig und die Optik ist zu diesem Preis hervorragend für 50 und 100 m. Die Stativhalterung ist nicht drehbar und natürlich in der Beschreibung auch ersichtlich. Zu meinem Neewer-Stativ wäre aber eine drehbare Stativhaltung besser geeignet und deshalb schicke ich es schweren Herzens zurück.

Reviewer: Amazon_Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Thanks

Reviewer: Josh Ryan
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Bought another spotter scope in a similar price point on Amazon. It seemed allright out of box but had damaged threads on the mount. Returned it no hasstle and bought this one. Way better quality right out of box and clearer glass, happy accident that I switched out. Works well with Amazon basics tripod and for the price point of those two together still cheaper then some then come with worse tripod.

Reviewer: Gerard
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: ne correspond pas à mes attentes

Reviewer: Devouchka
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: 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 .