My first ever Observation

[Adamchiv]

15 hours ago, Mak the Night said:

You may be in luck with a Barlow: http://www.firstlightoptics.com/clearance/clearance_celestron-2x-universal-125-barlow_50815.html

I have one myself and it is a huge improvement on the SW supplied Barlow.

You may find this link useful: http://target.lroc.asu.edu/q3/

Marble Earth has a really good interactive lunar globe: https://marble.kde.org/install.php

Personally, I love lunar observing.

 

Marble Earth (Win 7)

Hi mak, thanks for the info, is this the best barlow upgrade for my budget? Which is around 40 pounds. Unfortunately I no longer have windows 7 which I regret, luckily I have moon atlas 3d for my phone which was free, cant really fault it for a free app. Adam

[markthg]

On 11/02/2016 at 19:54, triton1 said:

Congratulations that first view of the moon is somthing isn't it you will then get a bigger wow when you first get Jupiter in your sights and Saturn will blow your socks off.

I have just got Jupiter with all 4 moons in view for the first time....blew my mind!  Looking forward to my first Saturn viewing.

[Mak the Night]

Don't forget Celestia: http://www.shatters.net/celestia/

Earth from the Moon (Win 7)

Jupiter from Europa (Win 7)

[Adamchiv]

1 hour ago, markthg said:

I have just got Jupiter with all 4 moons in view for the first time....blew my mind!  Looking forward to my first Saturn viewing.

Congrats buddy, great to hear! Thats my mission tonight, cloudy today though so im not getting my hopes up. Fingers crossed...