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bioffman

bioffman

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Hello All

I am new to the world for astronomy. I have just been bought a Telstar 500 x 114 equtorial mounted telescope. Is this any good for viewing the planets? I have a 20mm and a 4mm lense and a 1.5 erecting lense and 3x barlow lense. Please can someone help me with some advise on this set up?

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Grant

Grant

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Hi Bioffman and welcome to the forums, I recently brought my dad for his Birthday a similar scope to what you have, except his was the Telstar 900x114, it was a great starter scope for him and we saw lots of stuff, like mars, moon etc... the only troubles he really had were working out how to use the equatorial mount....

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Greg

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Welcome to the forum..

You have a 4.5 inch reflector on what looks like an EQ1 mount..

I have no idea what this scope is like - sorry!!

Someone will be along in a mo to tell you all about it.

Greg

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The Warthog

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Hi Bioffman. I have a 910 x 114mm Tasco reflector. It is adequate on the planets, good on the moon and on DSOs. You can have years of enjoyment from that scope.

You will have a good time here. It's a great little place to be for an amateur astronomer. :lol:

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Astroman

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This may sound a bit dim....but how do you tell the difference between a star and a planet in the sky? (not a joke, i am a bit new to all of this !!!)

Welcome bioffman. The main difference will be, in a telescope, no matter how high the magnification, a star will always be a point and a planet will resolve into a disk.

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