Hello All,
I am a very amateur wannabe night sky watcher and have been lurking on this great site for around a year now. I am hoping for some advice regarding a first time purchase of a telescope.
I have seen advertised in Dick Smith electronics a telescope priced at $226.
What i really want to know (and not from the shop salesman!) is whether or not i would be throwing away my money on a telescope at this very cheap price. It seems to good to be true.
I am looking to use the telescope mainly for lunar and planetary viewing and would like to know what kind of performance i could expect from this equipment. Below is the advertising blurb for the Celestron 127mm Newtonian Reflector i have been looking at:
- Easy to assemble 127mm German Equatorial reflector
- Pre-assembled aluminium tripod and accessory tray
- Slow motion controls for smooth tracking
- 3 x Barlow lens triples the magnifying power of each eyepiece
- Finder scope: 5 x 24
- Includes two eyepiece 1.25"
- Includes CD-ROM 'The Sky' Astronomy software
- 2 year warranty
Specifications- Newtonian Reflector
- Aperture - 127mm
- Focal length - 1000mm
- 1 x 20mm FL x 50 magnification
- 1 x 4mm FL x 250 magnification
- Optical Tube length - 508mm
Telescope weight - 7.17kg
I currently have a pair of Celestron 12 x 60 binoculars which do a great job for lunar viewing but i would really like to take it up a notch and be able to see cloud bands on Jupiter and the rings of Saturn..my question is will this telescope let me do this??
Thanks,
Mick (Brisbane)