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if it's anything like my Meade 114 eq1, your friends daughter should be able to see quite a bit. as everyone has said you will see the cloudbands on Jupiter, the rings around Saturn, Venus depending on its phase and a whole heap of clusters and a few nebulae.
the hardest part in using the scope is learning how to set it up properly and using the ra/Dec controls. mine is manual and fairly worn so makes fine adjustments quite painful, but I'm patient...if they're happy to spend some time playing with it, I'm sure they will enjoy it.
there's a thread on how to set it up properly on here somewhere, I think its in the stickies up the top of this forum...setting up a German equatorial mount.
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