This may not be the cheapest way to see uranus but it is pretty good.
Great present for that nerdy kid. Good price too. Usually these a $50+ at bigger stores.
Have fun discovering new planets.
definitely not uranus
what about at 90x magnification
You get 90x more blurrier uranus :-)
Seriously, the optics is cheap and the aperture is too small (not even listed???) to give you clear 90x magnification. You will just see a blurry mess.
Wait for a few more comments from people who bought it before… it will end up very quickly on the landfill.
definitely not uranus
Isn't a mirror better for this? :)
Last one I got from Aldi was absolute crap.
This one looks different, but I wouldn't buy one from there again.
Was it crap coz you were too close to uranus?
https://www.aldi.com.au/en/special-buys/saturday-10-august-2…
this will definitely let you see uranus.
but again probably not the cheapest option.
All the bigger eyes for spotting bargains with.
Cheap telescopes - avoid them. There is no point. A $25 pair of binoculars would be better.
I ABSOLUTELY agree 100%. A decent low cost pair of 7 x 50 binoculars are the best way for anyone to cheaply get into astronomy.
Great for moon, planets, galaxies etc. And also handy for regular day use.
Ha you said uranus !
With this telescope the heavenly bodies will be in B/W only, not full colour like in the books.
Are you sure? If I buy this for my son and we look for the The Rosette Nebula it will not be in colour?
Actually if you look through any telescope regardless of price you will see objects in B/W only, which might be a turned off if you have high expectation to see objects in glorious colours like those in books or magazines. Colours are due to filters used in photography that's why if you google sky objects you will see different photographers produce different colours for the same object depending on the filters used.
For this particular nebula you are interested in, here is a link for before & after filter added. Again don't expect to be able to get similar viewing unless using expensive stuff.
Well that's not totally true. Stellar objects do have colour. There are red stars and so on. But the tint is faint and so the colour is often enhanced for pictures, not with filters, but by increasing the saturation, so colours look more vivid than they really are.
You may also be thinking about are false colour pictures where colours are assigned to different wavelengths of radiation in a different spectrum, e.g. radio wavelengths. In such a case yes the colour shown depends on the assignments used.
The other reason it will be difficult to see colour is that at low light levels your eyes' cone receptors are inactive and the rod receptors, which are colour-blind, come into action.
Of course the objects have colours. But I am talking about these objects viewed through a telescope here. And having worked for the Siding Spring Observatory for twenty years I will tell you that filters are used in colour astrophotography all the time.
I see colours with my 7 inch newtonian. basic scope no filters. Filters remove spectrum, not add it anyway.
The article says they use filters to block all light except the H-alpha (Hα) radiation of neutral hydrogen atoms and that is used to bring out the primary detail in the nebula. What they are saying is they photographed only a narrow spectrum (like a single colour) of what is coming out naturally to focus on the light from the stars. The article then goes on to say they artificially re-add what the natural colour would be like to compensate for the fact that they filtered the natural colours out. The artificial colour is only used because they used filters to get a clearer image.
Just put some red cellophane around the eye piece…
It definitely won't be in colour, it will be all black.
"While hard to see visually, even in large telescopes…"
from http://www.oneminuteastronomer.com/2477/rosette-nebula/
This is definitely not a large telescope. With this scope you will be able to see only the moon. Planets will be tiny dots. Don't expect more… don't waste your money.
And if you decide to get it, DO NOT TURN IT TOWARDS THE SUN!!!
Cheap or not, don't waste your money on this.
Apart from spying on neighbours you won't be able to see much in the sky… definitely not uranus :-)