Hello all,
my son (6 years) and I want to get our first telescope. My son is really interested in astronomy and nearly memorized all planets with their moons and wants to have his first telescope. Unfortunately, I don't have any knowledge about telescopes and don't know what would fit our needs.
What is important to us:
- easy to use, I have seen there are wifi mounts which looks very great for the new generation, who is used to control everything via phone/tablet (I am aware that we will not learn the sky in the same manner as we would use a manually driven scope, but hopefully that will come later on, when we get familiar with scopes)
- in the beginning focus on moon and planets, but would be great to see some bright DSOs like Andromeda, double stars (we would love to see Jupiter with moons and saturns ring)
- the possibility to take pictures with decent quality (first by phone later on with cameras, who knows :)) - my son loves to take pictures and print them later on, he is very creative and makes his own things. When I said that he will get a telescope, he was so happy but asked if there is a print option
- dont need to be portable
We live in Denmark and the options to get telescopes are not big. However I have found following one:
- Skywatcher Star Discovery P150i wifi goto https://www.astrosweden.se/sv/articles/2.3136.13112/sky-watcher-star-discovery-p150i-wi-fi-goto-teleskop
- Skywatcher Skymax 127 AZ-GTI wifi goto https://www.astrosweden.se/sv/articles/2.3797.10843/sky-watcher-skymax-127-pa-az-gti-wifi-goto-montering
- Skywatcher Explorer 130PS AZ-GTI wifi goto https://www.astrosweden.se/sv/articles/2.3797.10840/sky-watcher-explorer-130ps-pa-az-gti-wifi-goto-montering
It would be really great to hear what you think and what we should go for. I know there is a price difference here, but that is secondary. We want to have a good start into our own astronomy journey. Please suggest other options too.
I have read some posts about collimation. I dont know what that is and wanted to know which of these above does not need it
Big thanks in advance.