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Originally Posted by BilliGoatsGruff
I have a Skywatcher heritage 130p. I didn't know that having a fider scope was such a big deal to be honest. Nobody has ever mentiond it's importance before now  |
That's got a Red Dot Finder - right? They're fine for pointing at naked eye targets (such as planets, or pointing at the alignment stars on a GoTo mount), but you'll need to use star-hopping from bright stars to find fainter targets.
A right-angle finder scope (8x50 say) might be a useful accessory - it'll let you find much fainter targets than you can with the naked eye. (Right-angle finders cost a bot more than a straight-through finder, but with a small telescope where the viewing position is never very high off the ground, your back and neck will thank you for it!)