Im thinking of buying a telescope to do a bit of gazing into the heavens!
Thought about something like this http://www.opticstar.com/Run/Astrono...p=0_10_1_3_115
That's the best price I've seen although one or two places if you pay about 30 quid more, you get some extras worth up to 75ish quid ie night torch, another eye piece.
What I like is it is a GOTO telescope meaning once you have calibrated it to a known star you can then use the processor in it to search for a good few thousand (nearly 43000 but I guess half of these would be in the southern sky so not viewable?) objects and this I suppose will teach you where they actually are in the sky.
Any thoughts? Probably not what a 'serious' amatuer astronomer would pick but then again, I only want to look for fun!
Thought about something like this http://www.opticstar.com/Run/Astrono...p=0_10_1_3_115
That's the best price I've seen although one or two places if you pay about 30 quid more, you get some extras worth up to 75ish quid ie night torch, another eye piece.
What I like is it is a GOTO telescope meaning once you have calibrated it to a known star you can then use the processor in it to search for a good few thousand (nearly 43000 but I guess half of these would be in the southern sky so not viewable?) objects and this I suppose will teach you where they actually are in the sky.
Any thoughts? Probably not what a 'serious' amatuer astronomer would pick but then again, I only want to look for fun!
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