About buying 130pds. Any extra?

[FMA]

Hi, I’m about getting the 130pds, and was wondering if I should get any extra. I know that some would say ,wait and see what you need, but I see it comes only with a 28mm, should I get a 5 or 8 mm to begin with?

I’m completely new in hobby, but 50 pounds more in the shop basket is not a problem

 

thanks

 

 

 

[jonathan]

For eyepieces it's good to have a selection, the usual is about three - 28mm is the low mag one you'll probably use when finding your target or for observing larger objects such as the moon, clusters or large nebula, something around the 14-16mm range for a slightly closer look, then probably 9-11mm or so for high mag.  You could probably use higher mag than 9mm but for a high quality eyepiece that'll really make the difference you'll be paying £££, e.g. one of the Pentax range.

As to which are going to be best for the 130pds, it is an f5 scope so should be good with high quality eyepieces, but you don't want to go spending the earth on specialist ones to start off with so I'd recommend looking at the Celestron X-Cel LX range or maybe one of the Skywatcher UWA Planetary Eyepieces, these are close to your £50 budget and should serve you well.

[carastro]

If you are planning to do imaging you will need a coma corrector, but as you are  a beginner and you haven;t mentioned imaging, I guess you are unlikely to need one.  You will need a collimation tool, either a Cheshire collimator or a laser collimator.

Carole 

[FMA]

Thanks for the answers. Is it gonna need to be collimated being NEW? Sound that you’re buying something that’s not new! It’s something I want thinking about buying it now.....

 

[FMA]

And yes, I’ll try some photo with my canon, but wasn’t very worried if the stars look like watermelons..... :))

 

[John]

1 hour ago, FMA said:

Thanks for the answers. Is it gonna need to be collimated being NEW? Sound that you’re buying something that’s not new! It’s something I want thinking about buying it now.....

 

It's usual to check the collimation and perhaps tweak it a bit each time the scope is used.

The collimation is also likely to shift a bit in transit. Nothing unusual about that and it does not mean that it is not new !