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Hey everybody. Never tried anything like this before. Thought it’s a good idea and decided to give it a shot. Tried to recreate what I have seen tonight.

It's been a few days since my first telescope arrived and there was 100% cloud coverage for the past week or so. Today was my first lucky day. Even though there are still a lot of clouds, I was able to observe moon and Jupiter with its 4 moons. I've been observing from inside of the flat (luckily, one of the windows facing ~140° SE) Not owning a mount & tripod yet (table top dobsonian), I had to be creative by putting one bedtable on top of another one to improve observation experience. I've tested svbony eyepiece set (4/10/23mm) I've got to replace stock eyepieces and few filters (moon / uhc). I had very good experience observing moon with all eyepieces though with 4mm it was a little hard to focus. Very nice, defined shadows of craters. Also seen Jupiter with my own eyes for the first time. With 23mm I saw just a bright, yelowee/purplish dot being almost in straight line with 4 other, much smaller dots. With 10mm after my eyes got accustomed to viewing I've seen 2 biggest bands of Jupiter. 4mm was not a success, could not get enough focus to see fine details.

Thank you for the info and advice. Much appreciated

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Hey people. Finally got my first telescope (130p) few days ago. While skies are 100% cloud covered, decided to go a little deeper into optics (learning what lens does, eyepiece construction, etc etc). Can't find a definitive answer on what those stock Super 25mm and Super 10mm are. Some websites say they are Plossl, others swear they're Kellner. Who's right? Based on anything I read so far (Kellner having only 2 lenses vs 4 in Plossl design) I am leaning towards those provided eyepieces are Kellner? P.S. if anyone has any recommendations on optics books please feel free to share. Not knowing anything about optics (to get quick core intro) I started reading Optics for Dummies. Thinking to progress to Optics by Eugene Hecht (looked at few pages and thought it looks a little too steep for an absolute beginner, even with mathematical background) Thanks.

Hey everybody. Just registered and wanted to say hi. I'm Ilya, software engineer from London. Thought it's time to register here, as tomorrow I'm going to be getting my first ever telescope (130p heritage). My little story: I guess as many people I've been just staring at the night sky since I was a kid just fascinated by it. Around a year ago I've started marinating the idea to get a telescope. I wanted to do so straight away, and when I've started researching the topic I came across common advice to postpone buying the telescope and first learn your basics. The Backyard Astronomer's Guide became my little companion and I've starting learning my way around the sky with the naked eye. Being in light polluted Queen Elizabeth's park (during summer) I had to postpone my daily walks to a much later time of the day (I believe astronomical twilight was starting at ~1 am and that's the best I could get in London). That was amazing. Within a month, those stars I've seen for years became my friends. I've learnt what they are, their names, what constellation / asterism they are part of. Of course I've started taking friends along, teaching them about stars, constellations, asterisms, and sky in general. Sometime during this summer I remembered someone gifted me a pair of (absolutely horrible for stargazing) binoculars and I've started using them to aid my -1 vision eyes. Even tho it was always a pain to use them, I was still surprised how much more is visible through them. Now, I believe the time has come to get the first telescope and get deeper into the sky. Deciding to stop on 130p was a difficult decision because my end goal is to get into deep sky object photography, but I strongly believe in the gradual approach people and book is suggesting (naked eye -> binoculars -> first telescope -> develop skill -> end goal {if there is any}) Nice to meet you all, I'm looking forward to having many interesting conversations, and maybe even some collaborations one day, when I am ready. P.S. For anyone around London -> I've also just joined The Baker Street Irregular Astronomers (astronomers club in central London. Meeting up once a month). Hoping to attend the next gathering they host. Come say hi. P.S.S. gonna throw my early tries in astrophotography Ursa major. Just phone taken (Samsung S21 ultra). Have been researching the topic of astrophotography at the time (concept of stacking, different frames taking light / dark / bias / etc). Was learning my way around the stacking software. I believe my first photo taken. Early stages when I didn't know anything about what I'm looking at, so decided to take a photo during a walk to research at home (all the lines / names was added during research process). This is weird one and has to be taking with a huge grain of salt. Same time I was learning my way around the sky and particularly about astrophotography I took my fiend along. He's into photography and we took his camera along (Canon R6 with 50mm f1.2 RF). The idea was to find andromeda galaxy and have a long-ish exposure frames to practice stacking, but I didn't have a clue where it was (only vague) so essentially I've pointed at roughly where I believed it was. After stacking I payed with Affinity Photo (not knowing anything about photo editing) I started pulling different sliders and somehow got this. I, and some people who seen it think it's not actual stars or anything but rather artefacts due to over editing. After this was produced I was trying to find what that actually is (if anything) and raw frames put thought astrometry.net yielded this. Right, pardon me for a huge hello. P.S.S.S. Forgot to mention, my current plan is to get 130p to use it for around a year and probably keep it as a portable "goto" one, get used to working with a telescope (probably arranging few field trips to non light polluted places, mb Snowdonia?) and then progress to Skymax 127 for another year to get more into astrophotography before I decide what to replace it with (to have a main tool)