I agree that getting new eyepieces will greatly improve your experience. I am also new at this, I bought my first telescope last year. I soon learned that the eyepieces included are not the best. I bought one decent eyepiece to try out. It made a lot of difference, so I have slowly acquired a couple more. I plan to attend the moon party a week from Saturday in Provo, if you want to try my eyepieces on your scope you're welcome. --- Richard Tenney <retenney@yahoo.com> wrote:
Dottie,
A 60mm refractor is what many of us started with (myself many years ago). It's not a lot of aperture, and so you will be limited as to what you can see with this scope. Most likely it will serve as a teaser to get you to buy something with a larger aperture! The H designation on your eyepieces I believe means Huygenian design; common for these starter scopes and unfortunately typically mediocre to poor quality. You can however find most of the Messier objects with even this size scope, but you'll need dark skies away from the city and a lot of patience! I would recommend some better eyepieces - it will make a difference, and I can show you a few in my collection that might give you some ideas of what to look for.
-Rich
--- J Waterreus <jwaterr@comcast.net> wrote:
Thanks for everyone's help trying to identify what we say last night! Several of you responded with offers to help me learn how to use our telescope. Thanks so much! I definitely plan to take you up on the offer. We've been frustrated by this telescope for 5 years now! Here's what we've got:
Saturn by Meade Model 60EQ-D D=60 mm F=900 mm Coated optics
These are the extra lenses we have: 3X Barlow H12.5 mm H25 mm F = 4 mm SR 4 mm
Hope all that means something to somebody! I don't know what the different lenses are used for. The instructions that came with the telescope were lost in our last move.
Dottie
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