can you see pluto with one of these?
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Yes, you can see Pluto with the CPC 1100, but you must be observing under perfectly clear, dark skies. Even then, at 14th magnitude, it's going to be right at the edge of possible viewing for this size of telescope. However, Pluto is currently located in Sagittarius, so is going to be difficult to spot amidst all the stars in the Milky Way. Happy hunting!
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I've seen Pluto with my CPC 1100 and a 20mm lens but it is "extremely" small...no surface detail...just a small dot. It's possible to use a more powerful lens to make Pluto larger but you will definitely loose detail with a more powerful lens. If you expect to see surface detail...you need a much larger scope...possibly an 18 inch or bigger.
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Yes you can see all three in a three inch telescope, but they will be small.
212525
No. I suggest finding a nice dark spot to observe away from light sources as the best step to good viewing. As for observing the moon, a lunar filter is a good investment. The moon is very bright.
1895077
Yes, however, this is not a large aperture telescope so don't expect it to look like the photos you may have seen. But, the darker the skies where you observe from the better you will see everything. You can see the bands on Jupiter and the Martian poles (in season there). The south pole of Mars is much clearer because its ice pack is larger. As I write this May 16, 2014 Saturn and Mars are the two planets of choice. Saturn is very pretty in this scope and you can see it's large moon Titan very well with this scope.
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Hi Ryan, Yes you can see the rings of Saturn with this device, but be prepared to be very patient and spend a lot of time. It took me four months to find the rings, and I am a trained aviation navigator, with 25 years of finding and focusing on the stars to calculate the position of an aircraft over the surface of the earth. For me t was worth the effort, reminiscent of my career. But if your desire is to "dial in" the rings of Saturn, you probably need a more powerful device. Sincerely, Don
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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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It comes with a single 25mm eyepiece, so to answer your question outright, "no". But the 25mm is sufficient for seeing moons around jupiter and the rings of saturn with little effort. You can easily see nebula and some star clusters on a 25mm. I bought the http://www.amazon.com/Orion-08890-1-25-Inch-Telescope-Accessory/dp/B0069VXRLS/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1398047491&sr=8-4&keywords=1.25+orion+eyepiece set to fill out and have a nice starter set. Hope this helps
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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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Yes. Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn will all show detail... especially Jupiter due to its size. The others further out will show as pin points of light. Though to be fair, most Earth based telescopes have a hard time seeing Neptune and Uranus. Get some nice eye pieces and on a dark clear night Jupiter and Saturn will look pretty amazing.
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I suggest going to a planetarium if that is what you want to see. Great instrument for the moon and planets, but you won't get Observatory quality.
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Hi Ryan, Yes you can see the rings of Saturn with this device, but be prepared to be very patient and spend a lot of time. It took me four months to find the rings, and I am a trained aviation navigator, with 25 years of finding and focusing on the stars to calculate the position of an aircraft over the surface of the earth. For me t was worth the effort, reminiscent of my career. But if your desire is to "dial in" the rings of Saturn, you probably need a more powerful device.Sincerely,Don
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Jupiter's moons are visible. Haven't viewed Saturn yet. I would suggest using a tripod.
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Hello Douglas,as a matter of fact, you can! The larger bands on Jupiter are in fact easy to spot; the 26mm eyepiece will show them very clearly. The same goes for the pole caps on Mars, but those are very hard to spot with the 26mm. The 9.7mm eyepiece would be a better choice. Much depends on the clarity and stability of the atmosphere of the night, and on the amount of light pollution. But the ETX90 is definitely capable of delivering those images!
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If the planets are in the sky this telescope can see most of them - Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. The outer planets, Uranus and Neptune are more difficult to see, but at a dark site and under good seeing conditions you should be able to view them as well. The telescope will also let you see brighter Nebulae and galaxies, open clusters and globular clusters. It has a built in menu that will slew (point) the telescope to objects in the sky.
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Saturn is my favorite planet to view currently. Good detail with this scope(over my Orion SpaceProbeST)..and the more you time you spend observing, the more detail you will see.
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You'll easily be able to see Ceres with the Celestron CPC 1100 telescope, and Ceres is actually one of the pre-programed sky objects in the NexStar computer controller. However, don't expect to see much of anything other than a point of light. Ceres is fairly dim (ranging 6.5 to 9.3 magnitude), and so small that it won't show a visible disk at all. Even Hubble images of Ceres barely show any features. After all, "asteroid" means "star-like object" so Ceres, along with the other major astroids, will only appear as points of light in the CPC 1100.
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Yes! You can see the rings of Saturn. Page 19 of the included Sky Gazer's Activity journal gives you advice for how to do this; it also shows an image of how Saturn and its rings will look through this MoonScope.