skywatcher heritage 100p

[astrojim01]

Hello everyone, Im going to buy the skywatcher heritage 100p and i wanted to know what i could see through this scope with optics supplied. 

[billyharris72]

Hi Astrojim01, and welcome.

You should be able to see quite a lot in that scope. 400mm focal length with 25mm and 10mm eyepieces and a Barlow lens will give you magnifications of x 16, 32, 40 and 80, all of which are well within the power of the scopes opics to deliver on. Things to view might include:

1) The moon - lots of detail, with mountains, valleys and craters clearly in view.

2) The planets. Jupiter will show the four main moons, the two equatorial bands and perhaps a bit more. Saturn will show the rings (albeit small). Mars will be very small but clearly a planet. Venus and Mercury will show phases. Uranus and Neptune will be visible, but difficult to distinguish from stars.

3) Lots of deep sky objects. Andromeda, the Orion nebula, the great globular clutser in hercules etc will all be clear and easily visible. Most (maybe even all) the Messier objects should be visible with a dark sky. 100mm is not a lot of aperture, so you will not get the fine detail of a larger scope (many Messier objects will look like faint smudges), but the brighter ones will give pleasing views.

It's a small scope, but there is enough in the night sky for it to keep you occupied for years!

Billy.

[laudropb]

Hello and a warm welcome to the SGL. Get away from the city lights and there will be plenty of targets to view and the scope is certainly very easy to transport to a dark site.