[Startrek (Martin)]

Originally Posted by Asela

Thanks Martin for trying to take the fear off me o)

I will definitely look at getting the 8" Newtonian with the NEQ6 mount. Just looking at eyepieces actually, do you think the below is worth for $208
https://www.amazon.com.au/Gosky-1-25...cs&sr=1-1&th=1

Thanks

As advised already, don’t buy eye piece kits, just buy what you need to start off with (10mm, 15mm , 25mm Plössl eye pieces and 30mm superview eye piece a moon filter and a #80 planet filter for Jupiter and Saturn ) Also don’t buy from rebranded non astronomy suppliers or retailers on line
Buy from dedicated telescope suppliers in Australia, Bintel, Andrew’s, Skywatcher etc...and support our local astronomy community
A question, do you wear glasses for reading and will you be observing wearing your glasses ?? If so you will need eye pieces with a longer eye relief say 10mm to 20mm ( eye relief is the distance from your eyeball to the glass lens in the eye piece )
If you wear glasses for distance only ( myopia) and do not suffer from any astigmatism then you don’t really need to wear your glasses when observing as the focuser will correct any deficiency in your vision when focusing on an object.

Cheers