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Old 15-04-2014, 02:26 PM
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hey everyone,

i am contemplating buying the
Celestron Nexstar 4 SE Computerised Cassegrain Telescope as my first serious telescope.

any recomendations or advice????
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Old 15-04-2014, 03:32 PM
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I started out in a similar way, with a Meade ETX105.
Its great for planetary viewing and webcam imaging and learning what's up there.

But it soon became obvious that 100 mm does not catch much light.

Having learned a bit of the Sky, I then switched to a Dob to chase the things which only look like a bit of fluff through the ETX.

Good luck!
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Hi Jake
As Jakob said, with these scopes you are swapping aperture for the convenience of a go to. 4 inches these days is a really small scope and unless you have quite dark skies, and I note you are in Perth, small aperture will severely limit what you can observe with these.
For visual observing, aperture makes a lot of difference. Dobs have the advantage that aperture can be gained very cheaply.

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Old 16-04-2014, 12:03 AM
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If you can find the dollars, the 6SE would be significantly better; but
better still, If you're set on the SE range of scopes, would be to look
for a used 8SE. They come up at good prices from time to time.
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Old 16-04-2014, 03:10 AM
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Hi Jake
As Jakob said, with these scopes you are swapping aperture for the convenience of a go to. 4 inches these days is a really small scope and unless you have quite dark skies, and I note you are in Perth, small aperture will severely limit what you can observe with these.
For visual observing, aperture makes a lot of difference. Dobs have the advantage that aperture can be gained very cheaply.

Malcolm
Ditto Malcolm, I wouldn't go near it, way too small for a cassegrain.

Frankly, I think you would be much better off with an *" Skywatcher with GOTO, it isn't that much more.

Jake, how much do you want to spend?

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Old 16-04-2014, 03:13 AM
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It depends how into the hobby you are going to go. A 4" telescope is pretty good for looking at the brighter Deep Sky objects - like those listed in Bright Star Atlas.

So while the telescope may have a data base of 40,000 objects, it's only really good for viewing the many hundreds in that atlas. Which isn't a bad thing - I still own and use several 4" telescopes. Though I use larger aperture a lot of the time.

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