Equipment for Celestron astromaster 130

[seethestars13]

Hi Everybody,

I am very new to astronomy, I have been able to get the moon and
some stars so far, but all I get is white circles and craters, what other
equipment would I need to get the colours and the real dinky dye
magnifying to get the great shots! Can anyone help me!:help::eyepop:

[astroron]

Hi Jenny, :welcome:to iceinspace I hope you enjoy you stay.
Except for Stars there is not a lot of colours in Astronomy through the eye piece.
Do you mean taking pictures or viewing?
What eyepieces do you have?
Use low power for starting off.
Eyepieces with low numbers on them are High magnification
Concentrate on the Moon and planets , such as Jupiter and Saturn.
If you have a pair of Binoculars look at the Milky Way or some of the brighter objects and then try to find them in your scope.
Binocular Telescope & Optical World in one of the Perth suberbs has observation nights where you can learn more about your scope and the night Sky.
There are quite a few iceinspacers in Perth who you could get together with when they have observing nights.
I hope this helps:thumbsup:

[seethestars13]

Thanks for your help, you have given me some clues here! Great thanks! Do you know much
about the filters!
Jenny

[astroron]

:hi:Jenny do you mean filters to look through at Planets, or deep sky objects?
You can use colour filters to enhance planetary viewing, and Nebula filters such as Oxygen three(O111) filters for Planetary Nebula and Ultra High Contrast (UHC) filters for other nebulae.
Astro imaging is another field altogether and I think you would need a bit more experience before you go down that path
:thumbsup:

[bmitchell82]

Hey Jenny,

Our skies around perth are SHOT. that much light pollution its not funny. Though if you want to see some form of colour, looking at different stars can sometimes help you. things like the Jewel box in Crux (easy to find can see it as a small cluster in a 9x50mm finder scope on my dob, Gem Cluster, pretty much the same as the jewel box though tighter a few nice yellow stars in there. Orion is one nebula that you can easily find and has a bluey green hue though very speccie. (I know that a 114mm scope can see it because my old blue scope can and its missing half the mirror). Keith at BTOW will help you and they have a viewing pad in Chittering nice people there and they will give you so much info its not funny. or Brian and Astra run classes at BTOW that will teach you heaps. Brian is a lovely fella and more than happy to spend good quality time with you to teach you about your telescope/optics/sky.

[astroron]

Thanks Brendan.
I was wondering when someone from Perth would help Jenny.
Cheers:thumbsup:

[bmitchell82]

Hehehehe, i have been a bit busy lately getting the EQ6 sorted out, Im getting rings fabricated for it but in the meantime i made up a set out of some 30x70mm dress pine and thredded rod. works well but i cant wait for the real thing to roll in.

Im more than happy to help people i really enjoy it! plus im a compulsive tinkerer :) hehehe