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Jamie16v

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Hello guys, Jamie here from Swansea, south wales. i just joined the forum after recently taking an interest in astronomy. I bought myself a sky-watcher explorer 130M a few weeks back as spares or repair on ebay for the measly price of £50. It cost me nothing to put right as most of it was just cleaning and servicing. The tripod brace had snapped but i made a new on up on my 3d printer (boosh) and i now have a fully functioning scope.

I haven't really done much gazing as of yet but i did manage to get out early hours this morning to catch a good glimpse of Jupiter and four of its moons, a little look at m42 after a bit of inspiration from another forums member, but i have a lot of light pollution around my house. 

I have also gone and bought a little celestron 76 firstscope so i can get the kids involved and for the size of it i am fairly impressed. 

I will be looking sometime to slowly upgrade my kit and sometime soon get a bigger scope, i really like the look of the skywatcher explorer 200p on the eq5 or heq5 (funds probably wont allow the heq5).

all the best guys, i hope to get chatting to you all soon in the forums.

Thank you! 

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mikeyrea

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Hi Jamie and welcome.

If you keep your eye on the 2nd had columns & gumtree, etc, you'll come across a bargain eventually.

In the meantime you're more than well enough equipped to enjoy the astronomical canopy and by the sounds of it you're already up and running...

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Jamie16v

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22 minutes ago, mikeyrea said:

by the sounds of it you're already up and running...

I think so lol, i figured out how to use the equatorial mount quite easy after watching a few how to video`s on youtube. I tracked Jupiter very well this morning so it must have been set up well. i took a break to do something (i can`t remember what) and when i went back all i did was move the RA and it came into view very easily. 

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Hi Jamie

 

Got the SW Explorer 130P myself and added the motor drive and the autofocus later. Just bought a piece of very fine black felt from Boyes for £3.50 which I'm going to use to flock the tube later this week. Bought it pre loved from Gumtree so it's my play with scope to see what I can do with it

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7 hours ago, BXRO said:

Just bought a piece of very fine black felt from Boyes for £3.50 which I'm going to use to flock the tube later this week. 

Hi, what are the advantages of flocking the scope if you don`t mind me asking?

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