My new toy - Astronomy telescope

Maybe it depends on whether or not you have a professional interest in aesthetics and and the construction of meaning in visual culture. Most lay people are unaware that these are enhanced images. Although this is done for sound scientific reasons, NASA was very quick to realise and exploit the fact that the general public found these photos far more appealing than traditional b/w analogue photos of the heavens.

That’s a 1200mm focal length Newtonian reflector, F6. With the 10mm eyepiece you won’t get a decent view of any of the planets and the field of view will be a little larger than the size of the moon. You need a longer focal length to give a higher F ratio of 12 or more if you want to see any planets.
You can use Stellarium to find out what a given telescope will see with a given lens … it’s very useful to figure out what you can see.
First, you need to know what you’re interested in looking at as one telescope will never fit all things.

Well yes technically Dobsonians are Newtonian telescopes, it’s just the mount that’s different. :slight_smile:

I just grabbed a link to the first one I came to as an illustration.

That’s very useful

First Light Optics are always doing offers. This one is particularly attractive.

I’m sure I must have posted this before :grin:

You’ve got to go and fetch it yourself from orbit though - DPD won’t deliver! :smiley:

comments are fun.

Unfortunately, it’s out of stock as well :worried:
Yes, some of the comments are quite inventive.

I like the comment trails :face_with_hand_over_mouth: