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  Amazing isn’t it! Planets always look fairly small in the eyepiece but better to have a smaller sharper view than over magnify it.
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  By Craig solomon · Posted 12 minutes ago
  
  As a relative newbie to this , the sheer joy of seeing saturn last night was a great thrill , however small it looked
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  By Floater · Posted 16 minutes ago
  
  Welcome. I hope you have fun with the forum and the hobby. 🙂 If you click on the Browse button, top left, and choose forums and then the beginners section you will find lots of interest and value to help in your search. Also, if you click on the banner heading it will take you to FLO’s website where there is a section for beginner telescopes and some advice. Have fun with the journey - that is very important! 👍
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  At $539, I think I'll be sticking to my 7nm version, especially as it doesn't say which size filter that price is for!
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  Basically you're going to get a variety of answers to this question. No one answer will be necessarily correct or incorrect. A lot of it will be what you eventually discover what is right for you. Personally, I'd recommend a short tube doublet refractor between around 70mm -100mm in aperture on an alt-azimuth mount to start with. For a variety of reasons: 1/ It will be relatively portable (so should get out regularly). 2/ It will be instinctive to use (point and look). 3/ It should have no collimation issues (Newtonian reflectors need constant collimation). 4/ It will have no real cool down time. A 150mm Newtonian may need up to an hour to reach thermal equilibrium when taken outside. 5/ It will have an inherent versatility in the fact that it can be used for lunar, planetary, deep sky and rich field observing. Sky-Watcher ST80 on AZ5 mount/tripod Altair EDF 60mm ED doublet on AZ5. Sky-Watcher ST102 on AZ5. 102mm Altair Starwave ED-R on Vixen Porta II mount and Vixen TL-130 tripod.
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  Wonderful clear and steady astro observing last night in Lowestoft. First time I've ever managed to see all the elements of the Veil Nebula from our backyard using handheld 8x30 binoculars. Took a few images of NGC7000 using modded and unmodded DSLRs . Will have some fun stacking them and combining them over the next few days.
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