#Looking for a good telescope how to
#Looking for a good telescope manual
#Looking for a good telescope license
#Looking for a good telescope plus

My budget is £200-£300 really for our 1st scope! At the moment we love just watching what is moving in the sky, watching the stars and last night I had a great view of Jupiter from my garden but gutted we haven’t go a telescope yet to take a closer look 😕Īt that level you're looking more in the starter scope category, FLo have a number on their site that may suit. I have a family of 3 children the youngest are 10. Thank you all for your opinions and recommendations.

#Looking for a good telescope license

I do have the cheap LT70AZ however, bought for the app license so I can use it on my other scopes.ĭo bear in mind that buying new you would need to allow budget to get some better eyepieces as the usual ones supplied are fair at best, the 25mm is ok but the 10mm isn't great, likewise the diagonal supplied could be better.

#Looking for a good telescope manual

I have both manual and go-to scopes but if I were starting over I'd likely have gone for the starsense DX102Ĭelestron StarSense Explorer DX 102AZ Reviewed: Partially Recommended ()īut then again these only came out a couple years ago and I'd already collected a few scopes by then. Very easy to use and the scope can also be used without it, they are relatively inexpensive when compared against the more complex go-to systems, They also come in both Dobsonian and refractor formats, best avoid the LT models and go for the DX versions as they are better mounted and usually a better scope. Another option are the Celestron Starsense explorer scopes that use a modern smartphone to analyse what your scope can see and then offer directions for moving the scope to a target you've selected to view. You might find that some decent binoculars would be the best start as you learn to find things and then gravitate to a scope once you're happy that you can and that star gazing is something you'd want to spend lots of time on.

#Looking for a good telescope how to

One question I'd ask along the ones already posed, how well do you know what's up in the sky around you?ĭepending on that, do you need something that can guide you to the interesting stuff or do you want to learn how to navigate yourself? That may be great if you have space to store and can lug it out easily but not everyone gets on with prodding and poking at a big tube to move it to target and keep it there. Welcome to the forum and as Cajen has said you'll get a myriad of suggestions, most typically to get a big dob. Please don't worry about collimation - it's very simple. Obviously, the larger the scope, the more light it'll pick up. Check out the StellaLyra 8' (well built, engineered and equipped) or if you need something smaller or cheaper, the Skywatcher 130p or 150p. Also, is it easy to get from where the scope will be stored to where you'll be viewing from? If the answer is yes and you want to spend your hard-earned on the scope itself rather than a mount, the recommendation for a dob is a good one. The answers to these will narrow down the choice. are there any areas of astronomy you're particularly interested in (planets, moon, deep-sky objects like nebulae and galaxies, etc)? what sort of budget do you have in mind?

Purchase a used scope!!! Edited Augby SthBohemiaĪs said above, you'll get 100 different answers as people will tend to recommend what they own. No matter what anyone suggests, I would still, if and when. Seems has posted the most sensible suggestions. Maybe read through various threads within SGL, if possible attend a 'star party' and have a peep through various scopes and quickly findout that visually Jupiter looks like a cricket ball at 20 metres!!

#Looking for a good telescope plus

Doing so (when you get sick and tired of constant clouds, rain and tripping over in the dark) will entail little financial loss as can re sell the equipment for its purchase matters into perspective, exactly 'what' do you desire to use the scope for? If for the imaging craze, expect to be up for a small fortune, plus know what adobe photoshop is (if you know what it actually is and does let me know plz as I cannot workout what a mobile phone is!) 😞 In all seriousness purchase a USED scope. Best to ignore me as I would suggest head straight to Ebay and start placing bids on a !0' Meade SCT which is currently available 🙂 Then mount it on a GOOD pedastal, a Losmandy G11 (if you got sick of the 'hobby' you could then sell the Losmandy mount to me) 🙂 Listen to advice from others Reticulan seems (at times) sane and offers good options.