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tomlines

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Hi all,

My name is Tom, a newbie to the astronomy world

I've recently purchased a sky-watcher 130p synscan az go to telescope

I'm basically looking in to what i should be able to see with this scope, is it good?

With it i got a 25 mm wide angle eye piece, a 10mm and a 2x barlow lense and have recently ordered a modified phillips 'astrocam' but wont be delving in to astro photography just yet.

Iv had some spectaculer views of the moon and a distant view of saturn,

this ia basically an open question, is my scope good? and what should i be able to see and what extra's could i buy to improve it eg higher mag eye pieces etc

thanks for readin and any advice is appreciated

hope you are all well

:-)

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brantuk

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Hi Tom and welcome to SGL. :D

The 130P is a very nice entry level scope which should give pleasing views of planets, moon, and many of the brighter dso's (M42, M31, M45 etc).

To get a bit more magnification it's common to use a barlow which doubles the power of the eyepiece. The Tal 2x is a good budget barlow but the supplied eyepieces aren't the best so you may just be magnifying their inadequacies.

If you join a local astro soc or observing group you may be able to borrow a couple of "better quality" eyepieces to learn what you'd like to get to improve things - eyepieces are a personal preference thing :p

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Thanks for the warm welcome guys

I already have a delux sky watcher barlow x2

Would a 3x make a big difference to the size of say....saturn?

I'm not near the theoretical limit so would viewing still ne clear and crisp?

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Slangers

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Welcome aboard Tom. Just experiment with your Barlow- take a look at Saturn with 25 plus Barlow and with 10 plus Barlow and see how it looks.Because of the distance involved Saturn never looks big in a scope- you just need to optimise size against sharpness. See if you can spot any of its moons. Jupiter will be much more impressive.

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I'm very much looking forward to Jupiter

What sort of mag would you recommend for Jupiter?

I'll be using a webcam soon, iv been advised this will be the equivilent of a 6mm eye piece, is this correct?

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todd8137

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Hi Tom and welcome to the lounge am sure you will have fun with that scope and its a good start point eps is another subject but with what you have should let you see lots of great stuff

clear skies always

pat

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RikM

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Hi Tom, welcome to SGL.

The 130P is a very nice starter scope and you should be able to see a great many interesting things with it.

You will probably need to use your barlow with the webcam, other wise the focusser won't go 'in' enough.

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