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Skywalker heritage 150p for £199 if you can stretch that much more. 33% more light than the 130p. Other than a few glitches, FLO company sorted out amazingly, I'm loving it. Pic of scope and a photo I took of the moon through it two nights ago 👍

I bought a new BST 8mm eyepiece as an upgrade to one of the kit EPs that comes with the heritage 150p. As soon as I took it out of box, it's weight alone convinced me it is worth £50. It's beautiful. Also bought a £2 pull string bag as a dust cover for telescope when sitting in the lounge 🔭😁

Heres an edit of the photo to bring out some details 🙂

Hope I've posted this in the right place. But tonight I Managed to get home just in time to snap this on my heritage 150p. Never have I taken a picture of the moon before.  After my frustration with my scope this week I am so pleased with this shot. Auto mode / ISO 800 / shutter 1/24s

Managed to get home just in time to snap this on my heritage 150p. Never have I taken a picture of the moon before.  After my frustration with my scope this week I am so pleased with this shot. 😁👌 Auto mode / ISO 800 / shutter 1/24s

My box came with a sticker saying may contain clouds 😂

The optics are pretty good from what I've experienced and read. @Lockie said the mirror itself must be £200

Can't wait 🙂 also just getting using to everything being upside down lol.... and navigating

How are you getting on with your scope?

Thanks so much. happier now that i can navigate the sky without getting stressed out LOL

So much better. Couldn't believe it was aligned up in 3mins after how long I spent trying aligning the old one. So pleased. Now to start enjoying the scope 🙂

Its so much better 🙂

OK. Just taken delivery of new RDF and it attached and lined up in about 3min! So it looks like the other one was faulty. Its perfect. Building in distant and in eye piece centred 👌😁 It is a different looking RDF and needs to be mounted further forward to stop it clipping the screw, but it works great and actually looks better. Better control and movement 😊 Thank you everyone for your help and advice. I know it's only a RDF but it has been so frustrating trying to view the sky...

Brilliant Chris. I will give it a go when replacement turns up. Need a repalcement as noticed the front screw doesn't actually tighten and just spins round and round now, so that won't help either. 🙂

I have the same issue. my RDF hits the extension tube screw too

I would definitely definitely consider the updated version of this, the Starquest 130p. I have a review for this on my channel and it has some benefits over the old Explorer 130p EQ2. You mean this one... https://www.firstlightoptics.com/beginner-telescopes/sky-watcher-starquest-130p-f5-parabolic-newtonian-reflector-telescope.html

That's true the heritage 150p was 33% more light in than the 130p and I think the explorer is 30% more light than the 114 model

Exactly 😁 the reason I went for the heritage 150p was due to space and thought it would be perfect as a starter scope. The skywalker explorer maybe too big anyway for storing in our flat

Well that's good news 😉

Well we must dream big - even though this is smaller than than the heritage 150p and infact I think the mirror isn't as good

If there's a problem with replacement may swap it for this instead...

The GREAT thing is once the replacement RDF finder arrives and I try it, FLO have said if it still doesn't align up, they will replace the whole scope. 👍

Who are you calling a hapless user 😂😂

Thinking about it - if you paid £10,000 for a new car and the indicator light on the right side wasn't working, it would be pretty annoying. In the scheme of things its only aminor issue and to replace the bulb would be a few pounds in comparison to the whole card... but you need that indicator light for the card to work properly and be road worthy. In my mind its no different to a £200 telescope... if one bit isn't working, it will be frustrating to use 🙂 thats the best analogy I have lol