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Posts posted by toshapetriji
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Welcome to SGL.
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Welcome to SGL.
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You could download sky safari onto your phone/ipad, I find the 'tonights best' feature really useful to plan my viewing during the day.
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Remember your gloves and hat.
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I've had both, the comments above are spot on but I would add the viewing experience is much better with the 8SE particularly with a low mag (30mm+) 2 inch eyepiece
The wobble is quite noticeable when focusing and if it's windy, the goto mount is OK but really needs something more substantial if I'm honest, it's on my shopping list anyway.
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https://www.firstlightoptics.com/beginner-telescopes.html
The problem is supply in time for Christmas, Covid has played havoc with the supply chain. You might be better looking at the classifieds and trying to find something secondhand.
The for sale forum here is good and you could take a look at 'Astro Buy and Sell' too, then there is always the bay of dreams but you'll need to be careful there.
Good luck though, it is a wonderful hobby when we get clear skies!
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Covid has played havoc with the astronomy supply chain and they are in very short supply right now. I buy all my equipment secondhand to increase my bang for buck so to speak, equipment for sale is generally in very good condition too so maybe worth thinking about.
Take a look here for some suggestions
https://www.firstlightoptics.com/beginner-telescopes.html
check out your local classifieds too.
https://astromart.com/classifieds/astromart-classifieds/eyepieces/show?page=1
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I made mine
http://www.deepskywatch.com/Articles/make-bahtinov-mask.html
Two hours work and a whole lot of satisfaction, works wonderfully. Print it off stick it onto black card and cut to suit.
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Welcome to the forum.
+1 for the dew shield suggestion, the SCT seems to attract dew almost every night I'm observing.
2 inch low magnification eyepieces are a well worth upgrade too.
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Hello welcome to SGL TomBee
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1 hour ago, Joe beaumont said:
What do you think I would get for a celestron nexstar 4se
I recently sold mine for £300, including eyepieces and filter.
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1 hour ago, wesdon1 said:
Hi. I'm just wondering does anyone know the barrel size/eyepiece size for this particular telescope my friend has bought and is in post. Is it 0.96 or 1.25 ? It's called a "Prolux 900" and it's a 114/900 Newt. reflector and is German, made by "Astro-Teleskop". Here's a picture. I would be massively grateful if anyone knew/could tell me, or even make an educated guess from personal experience ?? Thanks, Wes.
Just measure it.
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Welcome to SGL, astronomy can be expensive but my advice is buy well and buy once and personally I'm happy to buy secondhand to keep the cost down a bit.
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The GPS module will insert time/date etc automatically I believe.
https://www.rothervalleyoptics.co.uk/celestron-skysync-gps-unit.html
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Welcome to the forum.
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Apologies - and hello
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Hi Martin welcome to SGL