With my Meade telescopes, things are upside down when viewing. With this spotting scope, is the view normal or upside down? Thanks.
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With spotting scopes the view is normal, right side up. We used our Regal M2 100ED for viewing wildlife on our Yellowstone trip this summer. One thing to think about and consider - the scope is heavy so you'll need a good tripod.
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This scope produces "correct" images: right-side-up, with no left/right mirror-imaging. Newtonian reflector scopes and most astronomical refractors will invert the image vertically. Catadioptric scopes like Schmidt-Cassegrains (SCTs) will provide a horizontally-flipped mirror image. Since spotting scopes are used by shooters, birdwatchers, and for other purposes besides astronomy, all of them that I'm aware of produce a correct image. This is true regardless of whether it has a "straight-through" eyepiece holder or an angled one, like the Celestron 52306 has.
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There are several issues that could be here, depending upon your experience with telescopes and such. First question: could you see the moons in a more or less straight row on one side or the other of Jupiter? If not, it would seem you possibly aligned on a bright star like Castor or Pollux rather than Jupiter? The finder has to be aligned to the mail optical tube on a real object. I find the Moon easier as you can always find it by shadow, glare or just plain luck. Have someone hold the image in the scope while you tweak the finder knobs to get the red dot centered on some feature of the moon and have that feature centered in the eyepiece field of view. If you could see the moons, but no detail on the planet there could be a couple of issues. The more complex of which is that if your eyes are like mine, I need a bigger image to pick out detail. Yet observing buddies can see plenty of detail in small images. Go figure I guess. If you were using the eyepiece with the longer focal length number, the one with the scope might be a 20 or 25-mm I forget. Then once you have the planet centered or off to the leading edge of the field, switch to the higher power or the lower focal length eyepiece and refocus. Hope this is helpful!
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I am a new be, but when I received my scope the problem I had was getting the finder scope to match the telescope. My view was also blank. Using the wrong eye peice can cause the same problem. The wrong focal length, due to eye peice, and or the wrong eye peice tube. I had to fiddle with it for a while, I started with small tube, and large eye peice, focused the scope with the spotter scope, best view of the moon with out being there. Patience, dont throw it out. I hope I could be of help, trial and error
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jmich; Like you, I certainly was not trying to be glib. I just did not encounter the problem you did. I do have one idea, though: The scope comes with two eyepieces. One of the eyepieces is useful, but the other one I found useless. The target could not be centered or even seen. Hope this helps.J
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Much like Maddog, have no idea what the attachment point looks like for the spotting scope. I have never worked with a spotting scope. You would have to look. Good luck with your quest and start lifting weights.
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In my opinion, this scope was very poor. I had problems with assembly, and the scope did not work as described. My recommendation is you return it and put that money towards a better starwatcher. We were looking so forward to seeing the night sky, and were unable to have the telescope work. I hope this was helpful. In my opinion, the pieces not working as expected, is not worth replacing parts. I hope you can find one that will work for you. I, and other Amazon customers had dissatisfactory experiences when using this particular model. Happy new year!
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Not convieniently...everything in viewfinder is upside down. I would suggest a good pair of binoculars instead of this item.
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I assume you are asking about the orion scope vs the celestron scope? I've no experience with the orion st, there's a comparison on cloudy nights' user forum. There is a lot of info there. I beive that is where I found a write up on what to expect from various size optics and focal lengths. I'm still happy with the astromaster. It has pretty good optics, but as many people have pointed out, the mount is a little flimsy.
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Hello I'm not a expert but the telescope collimation might be off. The focus assembly could have a problem. Hope this helps.
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The Space Probe 3 is a Newtonian reflector and will have an upside down image, it's primarily for astronomical use. So the answer is no, this telescope is not really useful as a terrestrial scope for land viewing.
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Another thought: You may want to consider getting an equatorial wedge for your scope. That converts the alt-azimuth drive to an equatorial drive. Celestron sells one.
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You can see them fairly clear, i'll put a link at the bottom of my comment to a guy who takes photo's with his 4se. Keep in mind, when you're looking through the scope, the view is not as fuzzy as his photos and video. You can't magnify much more than 150x with the 4se but you can see Saturn with it's rings, and Jupiter very clearly. I'm not sure what the other person is talking about the motors jumping, mine tracks beautifully. This is a great starter scope, but, I also agree there are way better ones out there. For a first scope just to get you familiar with the sky and Astronomy, the 4se works great. If you're like me though, you'll probably want something bigger and faster within a year. I'm actually thinking about selling my 4se to step up to a much higher end scope for Astrophotography. May I ask where you're from? https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7LIfGL0G50jj7sP_aktkHA
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This is my thought, I don't like the optics as it has a very narrow field of view.. Poor quietly optic. You really get what you pay for with a good scope! I sent mine back a bought a hight end scope.. Hope this helps.
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If you want to use it terrestrially like that, you will need to purchase and image inverter so that the image is not upside down.OOOppss!! My earlier respons is WRONG, the scope has a built in erector, which most astro-scopes don't so there should be no problem.
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Make sure you're using the correct lense. Don't use the high powered one yet. Use the lowest power. Point it at a far away house's window and get it focused. Next get the spotting scope calibrated on that window. Once you've done that, point it at the moon and focus on that. Sounds like you're just way out of focus.
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Everything will appear upside down due to the nature of a reflecting telescope. You would want a refractor with a similar mount.
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No, not at most telescopes have the worst spotting scope for the money. The Orion is awesome but be sure to aline it with what your telescope sees.