![]() ![]() These are some of the darkest skies I have ever seen. I figured that this was probably the fault of the eyepieces and not theĪs night fell the glorious dark skies began ![]() The main problem was that the view seemed very dim whenĬompared with my refractor aimed at the same bird. We tested the collaminated telescope on a bird about 100 yards away and Think I did a decent job but I am sure I could do better next time. The instructions easily guided us through this process with Owner and as such have never had to deal with the collamination issue. This is where the instruction booklet was In most cases the computer got us to within ¼ degree or so. Is somewhat intuitive and likewise useable by a wide range of skill levels. Granted it was extremely hard to do an alignment because the finder was The computer system works well but not great. Half of the fun of learning astronomy is actually finding what you areĭo very little to aid in the education of new amateurs. Personally feel that the beginner should not start with a goto telescope. Instruction booklet was actually well written and geared towards the beginningĪmateur, and the software was useful for the beginner too.Īlthough a good idea this system could use a On the other hand there were some positive Is an incredibly flimsy piece of plastic. That as expected was nowhere near in focus. I have already mentioned the eyepieces were going to be a problem as well as the This scope, although cheap actually looked Laughable piece of plastic that quickly found its way back into the box. (about the worst possible eyepiece you could use) and worse yet they were the The eyepieces have little H’s imprinted on them indicating Huygien What I had feared, this was a true department store telescope. What was this? I had never seen this model and for some reason Meade does See a decent quality DS-114 reflecting telescope I saw the black tube of theĭS-114AT. Help him but to get my scope out into some real dark skies.Īs I reached his place fully expecting to Way has some of the darkest skies in the entire region) to help him with the A few weeks later he asked me up to his place (which by the Then looked into Meade’s catalog and thought that I had found it. ![]() He found it at Wal-Mart on some clearance shelf in the corner of theĪsked him what it was he explained to me as best he could that it was a 114mm Me and announced that he had just purchased a new telescope. It also includes a 3x Barlow and charting software.Ībout a half a year ago my Uncle came up to 114mm Reflector with 910mm focal length at f/8Īlt-Az mount equipped with motor drives and gotoĮyepieces (Huygien. ![]()
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