skywatcher heritage 114

[RATFACE]

as some might know am a total newbie and i just got the said telescope not sure of the right reason why i got it but i throught it would be the correct for by budget for the time being . i haven't quite used it yet but what i like to know is the two lens that came with it going to be enough for me ? they are an super 10mm and an super 25 wide angle long eye relief ? what other lens would i need to get that will help us.also would i be wasting my money in buying an synscan az controller for this telescope.

for the price of the telescope i paid for what will i exspect to see out there in the open sky ,i know am not going to see mega clear images that's why you will have to spend £1000's on but i hope i not going to see just an blur blob

[Dave Lloyd]

25mm works fairly well. 10mm isn't so good.(at least mine wasn't after I cracked it doing solar projection). I think a good 6 or 12mm would serve you o.k but others on here will he able to give you better advice than I can. Best of luck.

[RATFACE]

also to mention wouldit be possible to mount a camera to the scope to take pic's

[Dave Lloyd]

You'll need a dedicated t ring for a dslr and possibly an extension tube. I think your scope is about f4.5 so that would give you around 20x mag at prime focus with an APS-C sensor. I don't know how your mount would perform though with a quite heavy camera stuck at the top of the telescope tube. I think you can also stick a Barlow in the optical train to increase mag. First Light Optics are very good at giving advice.

[happy-kat]

Is it the nice virtuoso mount?

[RATFACE]

yes its this model i have got                   

  

[happy-kat]

Nothing to loose trying your camera but some cameras are very heavy and the focuser wont have been designed to carry the weight.

I think on searching before I found the load capcity of the virtuoso mount overall, so that woudl be worth checking to see if your camera and telescope combined are eaay within that weight.

Using a webcam for imaging planets would be no problem I think.

[Dave Lloyd]

I think the bit on the blurb where it says the mount can control a dslr means telescope OR camera.