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Just purchased first scope!
Hi all,
This week I purchased my first scope+mount, after years of dreaming and weeks of googling - I ended up with the Skywatcher ED80 and a HEQ5 mount.
My ultimate goal is to do AP (my wife is a photographer, so have access to heaps of gear already) and the concept and challenge of that excites (and scares) me.
I have started taking images of the moon, and they have turned out alright.
(The one uploaded is 10x 1/200, 200iso + 10 1/500, 200 iso stacked)
The scope comes with just a 28mm EP, so viewing anything except for the moon is basically a bright dot.
Just wanting to see what you guys and girls think the best barlow/EP to get would be to see things like Jupiter etc.
The ED80 is a 80mm/600mm scope, so 600/28=21.4x
A 6mm EP with a 2x barlow would give you 200x - thats about the limit for magnification yeh?
What magnification should I be going for?
Any tips for the SW ED80 are appreciated!
Thanks,
Steve
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