Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > Anybody know about Astronomy telescopes?

[Fordie]

Jasper ,one thing, the more powerful the telescope the bigger and heavier the tripod will be required to hold it. Some of the scopes out there may look the part ,but when you look through them in the night sky difficult the use. I have a Optolyth Birding scope with a 20/60 times lens. It will allow me to see the ring of Saturn and the moons of Jupiter because of the vast distances involved some thing with a 100x lens will not always make that much differance. Looking at the moon with a good 10x40 binocular will show all the craters and landmarks and unless your looking for a landing site would suffice
I have looked through a few "Profesional scopes " and unless you pay a hell of a lot more readies you will not get the results . As I say when I looked through one Pro scope with computer aided spotting at an object 4 miles away I could see more and a lot clearer with a good birding scope and with a lot lighter Tripod. Take the time to have a look throughone at night and see what you think. Regards 4D