help noob

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Hi peeps, im new to this so pls bare with me, I just got my 1st telescope the celestron 925, just a quick question, whats the best eye pieces to get to see planets, it only comes with a 40mm and I have got a canon 700d, is this ok to start of with to take so snaps, any advice will help pls folks, thx

[Sam Baker]

You might find a quick read of this useful:- http://www.telescope...opesarticle.cfm

Read this site it'll be alot of help. You'll need a t ring and t adaptor to mount your camera as well. Good luck

Sam

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[Sam Baker]

I'd also get a range of EP's and barlows to find the best options for different objects as planets, moons and DSO's are all going to require different levels of magnification and then you'll need to tweak again to get the best clarification. Hope this helps

Sam

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[swamp thing]

You might want to say what budget you have, this will help those offering advice.

Eyepieces vary a great deal in price from a few tens of pounds to over a thousand.

[brantuk]

I find TV Radians are very nice for planetary with this scope (around £100 s/h) also the Baader Hyperions give nice sharp views (about £65 s/h). And the Panoptic 24mm is outstanding for medium power viewing (but expensive). At the lower end of the scale the Celestron Excels are good and so too are the Meade 4000 series. I dare say the BST's will be good too but I've never tried them - they're very popular in a range of scopes.

Your 40mm is a low power wide angle eyepiece - and quite a nice one for these scopes giving 50x magnification. But you'll no doubt want to be honing in on planetary detail. On a clear night with good transparency - something around 8mm or 10mm will give you exciting stuff to look at on Jupiter (and Saturn when it's a bit higher). This will give you around 200x to 250x - but the seeing really does have to be good. Most of the time I find myself using around 150x to 180x for planets due to UK average seeing. Hth

[look out hes above u]

Thx for the advice guys