Skywatcher Heritage130P FlexTube Dobsonian Telescope Black

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We’ve also created a series of buying guides, including our guide to finding the best tools of astronomy, guide to finding the best telescopes for beginners, and the best binoculars for astronomy. A budget alt-azimuth GoTo mount (e.g. Celestron Nexstar SLT or Skywatcher Synscan) will work quite well for short exposures with a small telescope, if you fancy that route. See my posts under EEVA reports. First off, we’ve created guides on a variety of stargazing areas such as our guide to the proper telescope cost, our walk through of how to use a telescope to see the moon, our for beginner astronomy guide on determining the how to buy your first telescope. We’ve also created a series of helpful guides, such as our list of cool facts about astronomy (which any kids or beginners will no doubt find interesting), and our breakdown of astronomy gifts for kids. Your telescopes have very close focal length, f/4.7 & f/5. So you are going to use the same eyepieces providing the same exit pupil but different magnification and FOV. Don't expect great planetary magnifications with the Heritage but you'll enjoy the galaxy, open clusters (Beehive, Pleiads, double in Perseus) and extended nebulas (Veil and North America with UHC or OIII filter), and the great Andromeda Galaxy. The telescope is more powerful than many short refractors such as 80 and 102ST or 66 and 80 ED, although it costs less than the semiapochronatics.

Wow, thank you for those great explanations! Now this all makes more sense... It's just the point to decide which one is more suited for my use as a good all-round starting scope with some moderate deep-sky ability Overall, this is a nice grab-and-go setup, a simple to use tabletop Dobsonian that can fire the imagination and provide decent views of a wide range of targets. Sky-Watcher Heritage 150P Flextube Dobsonian review Lightweight, portable design

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Celestron 8mm to 24mm Zoom Eyepiece – avoid having to carry a range of eyepieces with you by using a zoom eyepiece. This eyepiece provides a magnification range of between 27x and 81x when used with the Heritage 130. I suggest that you avoid short focal length Plössls if short eye relief bothers you, as this is one of the worst designs in this respect; even orthoscopics are better. If you're unsure about what focal length to use for planets, maybe you should consider buying an inexpensive 8-24mm zoom eyepiece (make sure that it has an indicator for the current effective focal length) and using that for a while. Then you could sell it when you have a more definite idea of what you want, or keep it if you find it to be of adequate quality and useful for filling in the magnification gaps between your dedicated eyepieces. Sky-Watcher’s range of Heritage telescopes are designed to be highly portable and uncomplicated to set up, ideally on a tabletop where they can be placed so the eyepiece is accessible.

Bottom line: for this reason (and perhaps others that are not completely understood, as optics may be a science but perception is less precisely defined), people will generally notice coma more at lower magnifications. And with wider apparent fields of view, thanks for pointing that out, worsening toward the edges. We also spotted the Swan Nebula, M17, and viewed the hazy nature of the Sagittarius Star Cloud, M24, among a wealth of targets in this part of the sky. Celestron Omni 2x Barlow Lens – a 2x Barlow will double the magnification of any eyepiece you attach to it. It’ll provide magnifications of 52x and 130x if used with the Heritage 130 and the eyepieces supplied with it.Besides these two eyepieces, you’ll also find an instruction booklet and a standard red dot finderscope, but there’s no Barlow lens, accessory tray, filters or free software. Quality & Durability i will probably get that Sony sensor module, is cheap enough and i can recycle it for other stuff if it is not suitable for use in the telescope.

equatorial mounts and serious tripods are expensive so we might opt for an equatorial platform we can build ourselves If you’ve never used a helical focuser before, you might find it a little odd at first, but the movement was smooth. Again, use caution not to turn it too much as the focuser barrel could fall out if it is extended too far. If you’re familiar with telescopes then none of this should pose a problem, but anyone for whom this is their first scope might find it useful to have some directions included from the manufacturer.The Sky-Watcher AZ4 is the most economical alt-azimuth that will support a 150mm f/5 Newtonian. Here's an image of the AZ4 with a 150mm f/5... The workhorse 2mm exit pupil, 65x eyepiece that is 10mm. This is for deep sky. It might be also 12, 11, 9 or 8mm. 10mm Hyperion or 9mm Orion or SW 66 Expanse were great, more comfortable than 10mm Plössl or 9mm Ortho. Nagler 11? Yes, of course, if you have the means. Also Hyperion Zoom (remember, comes to focus 16-8, unless you shorten the trusses). Delos and Pentax 10mm also but I didn't try them to know if they focus (they should) At 26x, the cluster sits comfortably in the field of view, with a lot of faint stars appearing behind the brighter stars that form the cluster. The entire cluster could still be seen at 65x, with the field of view allowing a decent amount of time for the cluster to be observed before it drifted out of sight.