The best panoramic viewers at affordable prices – BrightStar
Towerviewershop.com is the online shop for quality optical products. BrightStar sightseeing binoculars allow your customers and tourists to enjoy beautiful landscapes on a completely new level. Located in Poland, at the heart of Europe, we have manufactured a wide range of optical devices from commercial coin-operated binoculars to those for personal use, since the 1980s. BrightStar is the first in the world to set new safety standards, like the “self-leveling system” designed to avoid looking directly at the Sun when first being used. We cater for private customers, but our main business is commercial. If you are the owner or manager of a viewpoint, terrace, restaurant, hotel, catering facility, lift, cable car, parking lot, shelter or similar, we supply equipment that will enhance your customer experience. Please contact us – our specialists will help and advise you on your most suitable options and provide details on our complete range of sightseeing telescopes. There are further details in our FAQs section.
These viewing machines are also commonly called: Tower Viewers, Sightseeing Scopes, Coin-operated Binoculars, Commercial Binoculars, Non-coin Operated Binoculars, Observation Binoculars, Tourist Scopes, etc.
Commercial Sightseeing Binoculars for Tourists – Our Offer
BrightStar scopes are fully weatherproof and robustly constructed to resist tampering. The water and dust protection class of the scope component is IP66. All our products are machined from rust resistant materials – mostly aluminium and stainless steel, offering the best weight to strength ratio. Even heavy duty devices are relatively light (50-70kg) and can be shipped worldwide by air in two boxes. The base has 8 pcs 15mm diameter holes placed equally on 290mm circle.
Each base has 8 x 15mm holes evenly spaced around a 290mm circle. For securing to the ground 4 – 8 anchor bolts or chemical anchorage systems (e.g. 12x120mm) can be used.
We manufacture three types of a tower viewers :
- Non-Coin-Operated Binoculars – Supplied without the central coin box or card terminal. Observation time is not limited – perhaps the best choice if providing a free additional service for your customers.
- Coin-Operated Binoculars – Incorporating a central coin box and slot, which is secure, but accessible for emptying or renewing the battery, and limiting the viewer to a set time per payment.
- Binoculars with Terminal Card Payment – Our latest addition. Customers can pay by card or phone, as in any shop. They just present their card or mobile phone (NFC equipped) close and start enjoying the view.
In each category, you will find sightseeing scopes for one eye (monocular) and for two eyes (binocular). Telescopes with a single eyepiece offer a greater magnification, so they will be better for observing ships at the seaside or details like the tops of distant mountains or buildings. The two-eyepiece binocular offer lower magnification, but a wider field of view and better depth perception. In general, the BINO version is definitely a better product when it comes to admiring the landscape.
In addition, we manufacture:
- SOLAR POWER SYSTEM allows our coin-operated binoculars with mechanical coin injector* to work without charging – typically for 7 months in a central European climate from April to October). The solar panel also reduces the charging intervals in winter.
- STAND FOR CHILDREN – Safe, 180° or 360° round, without any sharp corners.
* Mechanical coin injector does not consume electric energy.
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Terminal Card Payment Binocular BrightStar HORIZON SCOPES 2×90, BINO, off-grid PV solars
All BrightStar products have individual codes, which allow for quick identification and immediate reading of the most important parameters such as type and size.
Brand name: BS – BrightStar,
Series name: HS – Horizon Scopes,
Type: NC/C/T – Non-Coin / with Coin selector / Terminal for credit card payment + 1/2 (lens quantity)
Diameter of the tube and the diameter of the protecting lens. For a 110 mm diameter of first glass the optical lens is 80mm (mono). For a 120 mm it is 100 mm (mono). For a two tubes with a diameter of 90 mm it is 50 mm but it’s BINO so it passes 2x more light because there are two lenses.
Eyepiece quantity: 1/2 – 1 is monocular for one eye, 2 is binocular for two eyes.
Production version: 01, 02, 03, 04 etc. These products are being developed constantly and there are small upgrades every week. This number will make it easier to identify your version if you want to order components and accessories. When any major upgrade will be implemented we will change this parameter.
Sometimes you will find extra letters: „GP” means Grid Power, „OGP” means Off-Grid Power, and „CS” means Children Stand in 180° or 360° versions.
Binocular code samples:
BS-HS-NC1-110-1-01,
BS-HS-C1-110-1-01
BS-HS-T1-110-1-01,
BS-HS-NC2-290-2-01,
BS-HS-C2-290-2-01,
BS-HS-T2-290-2-01-OGP,
BS-HS-C1-110-1-01-GP,
BS-HS-C2-290-2-01,
Accessories code samples:
BS-HS-CS-360
BS-HS-CS-180
BS-HS-SP
BrightStar – Tourist Panoramic Viewers – Horizon Scopes series
The Horizon Scopes series is our latest addition to the range, using our 30 years of experience. All products were redesigned and upgraded, with new prototypes thoroughly tested in 2018 and 2019. The BrightStar brand was born and these modern products are now in serial production. Our goal was to manufacture products that are reasonably priced, universal, durable, easy to repair and lightweight for worldwide air shipping. All BrightStar systems combine beautiful design with modern technology – CNC machined components using light and high-quality materials. Horizon Scopes offer new safety standards (like ‘self-leveling’), and smart construction allows for full electronic and mechanical repair without having to access the hermetically sealed lens component.
Optical devices – some science
A panoramic binocular for tourist is an optical telescope using high-quality optic lenses to focus light.
This allows people to see details of objects at a great distance. The optical binocular allows us to increase the focal parameter at the expense of brightness and angle, which is why the diameter of the optics is so important.
The bigger the better because it allows more light into the eye and the image is brighter. However, the quality of the eyepiece and objective lens is critical if a sharp and bright image is to be achieved – this is where our products come in.
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