Lucky you, that's awesome and a great scope to get started into astronomy. I could find nothing in the manual about terrestrial viewing, do I need to get a different eyepiece or adapter for terrestrial use? I'm see there is a camera attachment from Celestron available here, would this be sufficient for getting started in astrophotography? If not - what would be?Īfter unboxing yesterday I was aiming it across the lake from where I live and expected the image to be inverted, but it's inverted with about a 30 degree tilt. However it turns out the digital camera it has is used for alignment purposes only, not for astrophotography, so I think she was a little mislead by the 'built in digital camera' in the advertising.Īnyway, brings me to (one of ) my question(s) The main reason she picked this one was that she was under the impression that I I could combine my photography hobby with this one, because it has a built in digital camera.

She said I could exchange it for another if I had something else in mind, I briefly considered perhaps the 6' model but I think the 130 should suffice nicely and the automation feature is probably good for a newbie like myself. Well, yesterday my mind got made up for me as it was my birthday & my wife got me a Celestron Sky Prodigy 130 like this one. Over the last year or so I've been thinking seriously about getting a telescope, having my eye on the Celestron Nexstar 6SE model or getting a slightly smaller 5' model that's more automated for about the same price.

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