New travel scope

[ChrisR]

I saw a thread on SGL and picked one of these up from Amazon warehouse for £68. It has a 48mm male thread so a 2" to 1.25" eyepiece holder screws straight on and I can then use those eyepieces rather than the supplied one.

[Carole]

Are you planning to use this for Astronomy at Cairds?

Carole

[ChrisR]

Are you planning to use this for Astronomy at Cairds?

Carole

No, I'll take the full rig for that, this is something for taking on holiday and probably to Otford.

[Carole]

Sorry this is so huge, we don;t have a thumbs up Emoji

[RobertM]

Looks like a 'bargain'  hope optical performance is good - it is SVBony but for £68 there's nothing much to loose.

Carole.  Most of the Emojis are for when things go wrong, as you well know, things don't go right very often 

[ApophisAstros]

Sorry this is so huge, we don;t have a thumbs up Emoji

A bit more subdued than carole`s over the top one.. LOL
Roger

[Mac]

👍
Smallest one i could find

[ApophisAstros]

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I found a smaller one , 
Roger

[ChrisR]

Finally had the chance to try it out at Otford. Obvious it had a problem straight away, stars had flares upwards. Took a look at Sirius out of focus and it looked more like the rotor of a wankel engine than a disc.

Already processed the return with Amazon. I'll keep my eye out for a small sct maybe. I like the idea of having a tiny grab and go telescope. The camera tripod with a fluid head was stable enough and meant the telescope would just stay where it was pointed without having to lock the head up.

[Mac]

I like the idea of having a tiny grab and go telescope.

A good idea, but have a look at a decent pair of binoculars as your goto grab.

I have a very nice pair of 8*56 by steiner,
I did have the celestron 15 * 70 but they were Junk. the eye piece mount was so flexible you just couldn't focus them.
As soon as you eye touched the eyepiece it would change the focus as it flexed.

Mac.

[Carole]

Maybe you'll see something tomorrow Paul at the Astro Show.
You can see and examine stuff there and get advice.

Carole