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Hello from Talha in Lahore


Talha Mushtaq

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Hi and welcome to SGL.

The Jiehe is not a scope we see to much of in the UK but I have seen them in China. It has a 118mm objective so its maximum magnification might be 2x so 236x but that would be with good optics with good seeing.

I would expect you would get to be able to see the Moon plus the moons and bands of Jupiter and the rings on Staurn, but they will not be big. You would probably get quite a bit of chromatic abberation too as I suspect the optics would not equite to a Skywatcher or similar.

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Hi Talha and welcome to SGL, really the question you ask should be rephrased, not how far you can see with a telescope ?, but what can you see ?. The naked eye is reputed to be able to see out to distance of some 2.5-2.8 million light years, brining within range the Andromeda Galaxy. What a telescope does, is to enable fainter things in space to become more visible, the larger the main objective, the greater the light gathering power of the telescope, subsequently more detail is revealed. Enjoy the forum :) 

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