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Old 27-01-2011, 12:01 AM
Leeroy (Lee)
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Brisbane
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G'day Jowel

I'm a newbe my self on here but i have just purchased the exact scope your looking at a few weeks ago, so i'll tell you what i have learnt.

As a whole the Skywatcher is pretty good. Easy to put together and well made.
For collimation i just used an old film canister with a hole in it. The main mirror already has finger knobs for adjustment and the secondary uses a small allen key. I have found that once set, there is almost no need to re-adjust the secondary mirror. I was also quite surprised how well the primary maintains collimation after being collapsed and stored, with only minor adjustments required to get it spot on.

I use the supplied finderscope with no problems at all, however it is a bit of a neck twister at times and a 90 deg angle adaptor would be an advantage. It does loose it's collimation to the main scope pretty easily though and needs to be re-set at the begining of each session.

I have found the supplied eye peices to be quite adequate, allthough admitidly i have little experience in what a real good eye piece is like to look through.
I have since purchased another 6.5mm eye peice and a 2x barlow lense.

I have lots of light pollution at home so Most of my viewing has been on the planets. I have used the 6.5mm eye peice and the 2x barlow to look at jupiter with quite good results but it has to be pretty good conditions or all you see is mirrarge..

Using such high magnification i would defintaly recomend a "goto" version if you can afford it. Having to nudge the scope every few seconds gets tiring after while.
I'm now looking at building an equatorial platform as i can't afford to buy any more ATM..


Hope this helps.

Cheers
Lee
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