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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

This is something I've been thinking about for a while now...buying a telescope,but which type-refractor or reflector.Ive got a budget of around £800..any advice would be welcomed...but in simple terms,not loads of technology jargon what I don't understand...I am just a simple man.

Thanks x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I can't offer you any constructive advice .....

But yeah-man awesome pastime...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I just got a budget £100 refractor telescope to get started.

Can still get some awesome views with it, just got to make sure the finder scope is set accurate.

Id love to have one with a built in coordinate finder, at the moment I use an app to locate things in the sky.

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

800 will get you a great piece of kit .. Basically the larger the main reflector the better the view .. I would get a bucket style one .. A motorized mount..

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"I can't offer you any constructive advice .....

But yeah-man awesome pastime... "

Its something that I find fascinating

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By *ensualtouch15Man
over a year ago

ashby de la zouch

Anyone seen the new planet xx

Might need a bigger scope xx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

There's a major conjunction coming up of 5 Planets to the South

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By *dam_TinaCouple
over a year ago

Hampshire


"I can't offer you any constructive advice .....

But yeah-man awesome pastime...

Its something that I find fascinating "

Me too

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Anyone seen the new planet xx

Might need a bigger scope xx"

Haga, the new 9th planet .

No one seen it yet, but seems to be the favored possibility to explain some data

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I have always been interested in space/star gazing, But having the time to do it and finding the right places to go has always put me of investing in a decent telescope

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"There's a major conjunction coming up of 5 Planets to the South"

If I'm right it's mercury,venus,Mars,Jupiter and saturn

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"I have always been interested in space/star gazing, But having the time to do it and finding the right places to go has always put me of investing in a decent telescope "

I was up in Scotland on the Isle of Harris with a friend..they were blown away with the view of the night sky,they couldn't belive it was the same night sky as back home,just goes to show about light pollution.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Wow, 800 knicker will get you a choice piece of kit !! I've got a 200 quid basic 70mm refractor. It's well cool, I've been watching Saturn's moons lately

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Wow, 800 knicker will get you a choice piece of kit !! I've got a 200 quid basic 70mm refractor. It's well cool, I've been watching Saturn's moons lately "

So like Dirty Pretty Things you've gone with a refractor...is it because they are less hassel

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

Get one that follows the moon as the earth moves. You can see close up craters and where they landed on the moon. Sort of anyway.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'd look for a second hand one

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


" I'd look for a second hand one "

I have been scanning fleebay

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Go for an 8 inch reflecting telescope, with a motorised mount. You'll be blown away with what you can see. AND you'll have a lot of money left over!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Wow, 800 knicker will get you a choice piece of kit !! I've got a 200 quid basic 70mm refractor. It's well cool, I've been watching Saturn's moons lately

So like Dirty Pretty Things you've gone with a refractor...is it because they are less hassel"

Actually it was budget that drove the decision , I've got a motorised mount so that's cool.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Don't go for a refractor, or even a newtonian mirror.

Get a Schmidt-Cassegrain reflector it effectively folds the focal length of the tube by third

As others have said a motorised equatorial mounting is best, not altazimuth

You should be able to get a Celestron for that amount

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By *ohnaronMan
over a year ago

london

Why not see if there is an amateur astronermers club you could visit. Bet you would get loads of friendly help.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

I've looked at a astronomers club,unfortunately they meet when I'm at work.

All points taken on board

Cheers

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I bloody love one but I really don't have anywhere to put/use it in my current cave.

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