Owen_pryce9317

Will do!👍🏼

Thank you for your replies, I do live in a yellow/ orange light pollution zone so that won’t help. Maybe I was throwing myself in the deep end a bit looking for galaxys millions of light years away. Another clear night tonight so I will try again on some brighter DSO’s.

Hi all, Last night was my first time attempting to view deep sky objects, and if I'm honest I couldn't get anything. In particular I attempted to view the pinwheel and whirlpool galaxys. Now although I am new to DSO viewing I do know that they are both close to Alkaid in ursa major. I was looking for about 2 hours but couldn't find anything. First of all I was using a 25mm eyepiece which gives me 26x. Now the reason I want to buy a finderscope is because I am really not a fan of the RDF on the scope. Its not too bad for trying to find a bright planet (although I don't really use it for this anyway) but I find it pretty useless for trying to find an object which isn't visible to the naked eye. So I was wondering before I go and pull the trigger on one would the extra magnification in a finderscope be worth it, or is my scope simply not big enough to view these galaxys with its 5" aperture? As i've had my scope for quite a while now I know that you get what you pay for with equipment but what would be the lowest I could get away with spending to get a decent quality finder. Finally are there any finders that you know of that fit on the RDF mount on this scope or will I have to get an adaptor of some sort? PS: sorry to blast you all with so many questions🤣

After getting my small 130mm dob out this morning I could barely make out detail on jupiter (could see two bands). Saturn was very small. This was done at a magnification of 162x. As I am new to the hobby I don’t know if this is too much power for jupiter. I was definitely happier with saturn than Jupiter. Think I will wait until July when they are both at opposition. So overall I was wondering if anyone could give me optimal magnification for jupiter on a 5” aperture.

I did purchase a moon filter with the scope, but haven’t had chance to use it due to the moons phase. Will give it a try on Venus though. Thank you for the tip!

Hi everyone thank you so much for your quick replies! I’ve had a look at the BST ep and I will buy both the 5mm for the planets and the 18mm for DSO. My next target will be Venus (tonight if the weather agrees). Again thank you all for you comments and will order them when pay day comes around!

Hi all, I recently bought the skywatcher heritage 130p as my first scope after being into astronomy for years, but never having the money to buy a scope. The scope comes with two eyepieces: a 10mm which gives 65x and a 25mm which gives 26x. I also bought a 2x Barlow with the scope. This morning I got my scope out properly for the first time to look at Jupiter and Saturn and to be honest wasn’t expecting a lot with the stock eyepieces after reading reviews on them. However I was blown away using the 10mm eyepiece. I could see nice detail on Jupiter and all Galilean moons. I could see the rings of Saturn clearly and very faintly caught a glimpse of Titan. After this I’m really interested in buying a planetary eyepiece to make these views even better. I’m also interested in a low power eyepiece to look at DSO’s. I was just wondering if anyone could give me any advice on which eyepieces to buy as there is so many! A little bit out of topic here but is it possible to see Neptune with the skywatcher heritage 130?