Saturn

[Mattdavies241184]

Using my sky watcher 200p eq5 25mm eyepiece should I get a good view of Saturn?? Light is not great from my back garden?? But I'm planning on trying tonight?

[John]

You should see a nice but rather small image of Saturn. Your 25mm eyepiece gives 40x which is on the low side for planetary viewing. A 10mm eyepiece will give 100x which is better but your scope should show Saturn crisply at 200x if you have a 5mm eyepiece or use a 2x barlow lens with a 10mm.

[Mattdavies241184]

What about a 10mm with a Barlow?

[Mattdavies241184]

2x barlow

[faulksy]

that will do the trick. is it the supplied barlow or is it a upgrade ?

[Mattdavies241184]

The Barlow was supplied with the scope!!

[John]

What about a 10mm with a Barlow?

Yes, as I said above ".....or use a 2x barlow lens with a 10mm...."

The supplied eyepiece and barlow are not great quality but give it a go and see what you think. I'd use the 10mm without the barlow to start with and see what details you can spot with that.

I'm looking at Saturn with my ED 120mm refractor at the moment and can see 5 of it's moons, the Cassini Division in it's rings and a broad belt around the planets disk. I'm using 150x - 180x magnification for this.

[Mattdavies241184]

Sorry yeah I mis read!! Unfortunately not had chance to view the rain has started!!! just as I started to get saturn in my view (I think)

[John]

I'd better watch out for that rain then as I'm just across the River Severn from you !.

It's still mostly clear here.