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Originally Posted by Paddy
Hi Chris,
Ditto to Eric's reply. A couple of other points to add are that he won't see colour in deep sky objects like nebulae and galaxies. Whilst colour show up on images, our eyes can't collect enough light to see colour on faint objects. He will see coloured stars and colour on planets. What he will see will greatly increase over time.
Will he/you know how to find your way around the sky?
You have certainly bought him (and yourself) a wonderful telescope which should keep you discovering for a very long time.
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Cheers for that mate, I had not even considered the light/colour thing! THat being said, I am Deuteranopic, so my colour vision is skewed anyhow.
I think eventually Stu would like to get into astrophotography and so will obviously buy a GEM or more likely a motorised Cassegrain, and see the universe in colour that way.
I think I have a fairly good idea of how to scout around and whatnot, from my understanding, one of the beauties of the Dob is that you can pretty much point and view, and that is how we will start, i may buy him a skyscout or something for our anniversary.
When you say what he will see will increase over time, do you mean that our eyes become more sensitive to faint light and hence see colour, or just the incalculable amount of things out there to see?
The other part of his present (I am a massive fan of the Bait and Switch gift) is a Title deed on mars, after which he receives I will say "and you will need this to see it....in about 2014"
Appreciate the comments
Then you can start on the Moon, then move to Saturn when you tire of the Moon, and after that, when the Moon is setting, go looking for other wonders of the sky - open star clusters, globular star clusters - even galaxies. Of course, this pre-supposes that you have dark(ish) skies. If you will be setting it up in the middle of a bright city, your targets will be limited.
