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[frank1963]

hello all I am very new to all this so any way I have bought my self a Skywatcher Explorer 130m Newtonian Reflector Telescope is the image supposed to be upside down ???? sorry to be stupid.....

[wookie1965]

A warm welcome to SGL

[Aronnax]

In a word, yes.

It's supposed to be upside down. This is because, for astronomy it doesn't matter which way up something is viewed. The design of your Newtonian reflector means that the image is upside down, and in order to correct it would take more lenses in the light path. More lenses would reduce the quality of the image, so it's left upside down.

[studdedsole]

Welcome along

[rwilkey]

Congratulations on your new telescope, and a very good one too. As already said, it doesn't matter if the image is upside down in astronomy. But if you want a corrected image for terrestial use (reflectors don't really lend themselves to this) then you can get something called an 'erecting lens', something like this: http://www.harrisontelescopes.co.uk/acatalog/SkyWatcher_10mm_Erecting_Eyepiece__.html

But I don't really advise it, as reflectors are not really meant for land use.

[Paulturner46]

Hi

It takes a bit of getting used to, especially when you go to move the scope to carry on observing something, only to move it the wrong way and lose it from view.

After a while, it becomes second nature. It is a bit like reversing with a trailer. Which ever way you think it is, it's the other!

PT