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The Skywatcher 130p does come highly recommended but if you are unsure about anything, start off with a pair of 7x50 or 10x50 binoculars and a pocket sky atlas.

Learn your way around the constellations. There are plenty of star clusters you can see with a pair of bins, together with the Moon, Jupiter and four of its moons plus other planets and the odd galaxy (in Andromeda) too.

The portability of bins means you spend a lot less time setting up and if you ever drift away from Astronomy (perish the thought! :)) you still have a pair of bins for general purpose.

Hopefully you will find that binoculars make you want to see more of what the night's sky has to offer. Then it's telescope time!!!

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these are very poor toy scopes i no cash might be tight but cash is cash and spend it wisely ,avoid high street shops and camera shops would you buyoil from a chip shop for ya car or go to a garage,i think the reflecor 130p would be a great choice

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I bought a Celestron 76eq early last year, and it achieved it's purpose - for £70 it made me realise that money spent on a better scope wouldn't be wasted.

Having said that, it really isn't a very good piece of equipment. Wobbly mount (even in a moderate wind it moves), poor eyepieces, and the red spot finder is truly appalling.

The first time I saw Jupiter, it took me an hour of searching the sky with the 76eq, despite being able to see exactly where it was with naked eye. Anything I found using the 76eq tended to be by chance - although the chance did improve when I mounted a Rigel on it.

But having the 76eq gave me a focus (and that word is used deliberately!). I read about how to use the EQ mount. I read about EPs, focal lengths, magnification, etc and applied that information to my equipment in a way that wouldn't have made sense if I was only using binocs. I learned something of how difficult it is to find DSOs, and the feeling of achievement when I did find them. (I got a couple of M objects in the 76EQ.) If I had been using binocs only I don't think I would have learned quite so much about scopes in such a short time, so may have bought the wrong telescope when I had the money for a larger one......

So £70 wasted? I think not. I don't regret buying it for the reasons above. I still have the 76EQ and will sell it soon, with lots of advice. But I wouldn't recommend buying one despite everything I've said. There is better equipment available for just a bit more money.

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the danubia is a cheap telescope that was marketed by teco.

the celestron 200p is a good scope but you would be better forgetting the go to system and just go for a good equitorial mount and learn howq to use it

that is my honest opinion

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