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Old 14-05-2010, 01:35 PM
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bmitchell82 (Brendan)
Newtonian power! Love it!

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i will say this if your in any kind of light pollution and that means pretty much the most of perth untill you get down to mandurah or upto muchea and out to the hills seeing stars apart from the most obvious is damn hard, i lived up in Morley and i couldn't even see omega cen/ LMC/SMC the milkyway or anything. goto is the key, as though the scope you can see alot of nice objects.

I do have to dissagree that having a goto scope will lessen the fun and wont let you learn the sky, I learnt more from my goto than i did with the maps! and my knowledge has increased dramatically of fainter stars, constellations ect ect. Being able to hold on a target for 10-15 min with out the hassle of buggerizing around moving the scope will always give you more pleasure of actually viewing the object.

Also something to take into consideration is will you think of attaching a camera to your telescope.? that changes things a wee bit.

In my opinion though, a dob is the best solution to learn and get the hang of things

if you can afford a 12" dob, then go for the 10" if not the 8" more aperature more details you will see. (oh and watch out for the virus... once contracted things only seem to get bigger.
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