Re: Telescope help for a beginner
- From: Klaatu <mutster8_nospam_@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 14:23:13 GMT
Capt Morgan wrote:
> Ive posted this on another newsgroup and had some good advice, plus
> website
> http://www.scsastro.co.uk/ was also mentioned to me.
> As a beginner can anyone here offer any advice ? my original post is below
> :-
>
>
> in a couple of days i reach the Big 38 .... ive been asked what i would
> like and have always quite fancied
> a decent telescope, one thats reasonably capable - ie one that i could
> look really closely at the moon with but also see objects such as this
> advert quotes ie "the rings of Saturn, the satellites of Jupiter, and the
> Orion Nebula (M42); to more difficult objects such as the Ring Nebula
> (M57) in Lyra, the Spiral Galaxy (M33) in Triangulum, and the Sombrero
> Galaxy (M104) in Virgo; to very obscure objects near the telescope's
> threshold of visibility such as the diffuse nebula NGC 6559 in
> Sagittarius, the galactic star cluster NGC 1778 in Auriga, and the spiral
> galaxy NGC 3310 in Ursa Major"
>
> It comes with a "goto" system which would be ideal for me as ive no idea
> of using a telescope efficiently as yet ..!
> I would be using it away from street light pollution etc so clear dark
> skies would be the order of the day.
> Ive heard of Reflectors , Refractors etc , the one below has a
> "Maksutov-Cassegrain optical tube assembly" and all in all seems like a
> good buy ??? would anyone have any ideas? for 500 pounds it seems like
> one
> that would be pretty good and last for years...
>
>
> http://www.skyviewoptics.co.uk/productdetails.asp?prodid=509&type=sale
>
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>
> --
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> paul.duncan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"Starware" by Philip S. Harrington, published by Wiley is a good resource.
Third edition was published in 2002 http://www.philharrington.net/sw2.htm .
Looks like there will be a forth edition.
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