daphniesman04

Thanks everyone.

Maybe I misunderstood the article but it seemed to me that the reality vs expectation is a vast difference. I appreciated the honesty. I am shopping for decent scope, I'm tires of all these cheap scopes that we have bought or been gifted and can only see the moon. I was recommended to get a 8 inch dob. Then I found this article showing what I should see vs what I was expecting. It seems that I will see the moon, and some planets without a lot of detail and basically afew little smudges of grey beyond that? And that is with spending roughly 500 or so on a 8 inch dob. In order to see anything distant such as galaxies, nebulae etc, will require me to spend I'm assuming much more than 500. And I just don't have the budget for that. I'm not complaining, just trying to understand reality vs expectations. My 13 year old and I have tried ALOT of big store junk. With every one there is excitement during the set up followed by a let down during the actual viewing. Just kinda tired of all the junk scopes out there, lol.

I consider myself new to the hobby but I've always had the interest. I've always ended up with these stupid box store scopes and all I can see is the moon. I was thinking that with a 8 inch dob I would be able to see alot more than just the moon. But after reading this, it just depressed me even more and discouraged me further. If I can't see any more than what was displayed here in this write up after spending a few hundred bucks, I may as well quit now before I spend 5 or 600.00 on a dob and can't see nothing but the moon.