Glad it helped!

Glad you enjoyed the video.

Thanks. That is great to hear.

Glad you found it helpful. I must do more of the same.

I'm hoping it isn't discontinued, but rather out of stock. All telescopes seem to be hard to come by lately.

Not discontinued. Was simply awaiting stock to arrive in the UK. We had some delivered + the larger 150P this week

Yes you can pimp them up. Some of the parts are a little cheap, so it's not a bad idea to replace some with better.

Some very light oil will help. I was only borrowing this scope, otherwise I'd do another video on what can be seen through it.

Unfotunately I had to return it & didn't have it long to do the video.

@@starman1969 why did you have to return it xx

It's interesting how astronomers use different terms for f ratios than photographers. As a photographer going into astronomy, I found it quite hard to adapt.

Maybe, or just a bigger version with a larger base. Dobsonian telescopes are very popular for their simplicity. I've been out to far off places with friends who have them, and they've always managed to find a place to set them up.

This particular telescope does come with two eyepieces as standard.

Thanks. I've only got 20mm and 9mm eyepieces at the moment, so I don't have a lot of choice. I'd say you can use 10mm with no worries. The ones I have a standard William Optics eyepieces.

@@starman1969 try 6mm 66 sw

I would say up to 15 minutes. If it was a fully enclosed tube it would need twice as long to cool.

I disagree. I own an 8inch Skywatcher Explorer 200p, Skywatcher Heritage 130p, Helios 130p (same as Skywatcher Explorer 130p), Celestron AstroMaster 90AZ, Skywatcher StarTravel 80 (the famous ST80) and gave away a 40070mm refractor to my nephews/niece. My Skywatcher 200p rarely gets used because the weather is too unpredictable. Countless times i have set it up for the clouds to roll in and rain. I have helped people out for years with telescopes and also pushed the "Get a Dob" mantra and almost everyone who bought the 8inch opted for a small refractor on a tripod or the Skywatcher Heritage 130p because of space (no pun intended) and weight constraints, some have houses/flats but no garden and others because they wanted to use it for daytime as well as night with a right side up view. And with recent price increases, that also is going to be a barrier for now until peoples income increases. My ST80 and Heritage 130p and other telescopes have shown me much more through an upstairs south facing bedroom window than my 8inch ever has simply because of their ease of setup. My ST80 stopped down to 60mm has shown my the red spot on Jupiter and the Cassini division on Saturn's Rings and oodles of messier objects so its not all doom and gloom with a small telescope. When we were in lockdown, i had a broken pair of 50mm binoculars so i used the front lens cell of one with a zoom eyepiece to see what would happen, well, the world didn't explode but what i did see was Saturns rings (no Cassini division, needs 60mm refractor minimum) and 2 faint bands on Jupiter and then the image broke down because of the very fast binocular optics. Get the biggest you can afford, manage to use and won't neglect because a telescope in a cupboard is as much use as not having one.

It’s possible for the brighter DSOs like Andromeda and the Orion Nebula

@@starman1969 thank you. I'll get short exposures and stack like 200 images. I'll give it a try

All reflectors have the eyepiece in the same place. It is just the design of the telescope. If you would prefer an eyepiece around the back of the telescope, I would recommend a Maksutov or Schmidt Cassegrain.

Yes if you look back through my videos you will see where I have photographed the ISS several times.

I wasn't there at that time.

Certainly not the worst of 'beginner scopes'.

@@starman1969 Well... got my OneSky today. Found the hidden cost. Wont take a barlow, so have to have dedicated eyepieces. Theres not enough in-travel on the focuser.

@@springbloom5940 The Heritage 130P/AWB One Sky will indeed happily use a Barlow. Like the diameter of EPs for this scope, it just has to be a 1.25in Barlow. I bought my 130P in July 2018, and got the Barlow in an EP kit, a month later.

@@t4N9410oR Mine won't in-focus enough to focus my Meade 2x unless I either A) retract the tube about 3/8" or push the primary forward about 3/8". Then it wont out-focus enough to focus a couple of my long FL eyepieces. The focuser body needs to be a little shorter and the tube a little longer.

@@t4N9410oR I don't have a printer, but Id like to 3D print a screw-in R&P focuser for it. That would be an excellent aftermarket part, for these scopes.