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QUOTE=KISSMAD;1200436]I'm wondering which is the better telescope!
Celestron NexStar 130SLT Computerised Telescope
What will I be able to see
- Lunar craters as little as 3.2km in diameter
- The phases of Venus and Mercury
- Polar ice caps on Mars
- Several of Jupiter's moons and details of cloud belts
- The rings of Saturn and subtle cloud belts
- Many faint comets and brighter asteroids
- Double stars and stars to 13.1 magnitude
- Star clusters, nebulae and galaxies with spiral structures
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If you are expecting all these features to just jump out at you once you purchase this telescope - forget it. Stars to 13th Mag? I reckon the lowest I got down to with my expensive 130 APO was 12.8. Spiral structure in galaxies? mottling and dust lanes, but no spiral structure with a 130mm.
You will have to keep this scope for some time and observe frequently to knock off the rest of this list.