V pervoj ocheredi, chochu izvinitsa, chto pishu ne russkimi bukvami. Ja ne russkij.
Chochu sprosit vase mnenije, o teleskopach Celestron NexStar 114 GT ili Meade DS-2114ATS.
Oba ochen schozye po parametram i dostupnyje po cene.
Mne nuzen teleskop iz kategorii advanced beginner, cena do 800$, obezatelno s GoTo i polnym komplektom (tripod, etc.). Mozet byt mozete rekomendovat kakije nibud drugije teleskopy?
Za ranee spasibo.

Mindaugas

Alexander Novikov

If you are not planning to do any astrophotography, go ahead and buy any of them. Otherwise there isn't any good choice of GoTo scope with photography-grade mount out there... Add more cash or forget of GoTo.

Spasibo ! Also, I found that Celestron has recently introduced "Nextstar 4" 4' Mak-Cassegrain telescope, which costs just slightly more than 4' Newtonian (NexStar 114 GT). I wonder whether it has any added benefits, other than possibility of terrestrial observations?

Mindaugas

Max

Nextar is better choice, than 114GT. But
for advanced beginner i recommend to cosider
larger scope without goto, you will see
much more at same cost.

Anonymous

NexStar 4 goes withot a tripod and with only 1 eyepiece (53x). So consider buing another eyepiece and probably a barlow (to get higher magnifications). And think about what you are gonna do with a tripod or another thing to put it on.

N114GT is a fair short newt, goes with 2 eyepieces (50x & 100x) and a tripod. You only need a 2x barlow (Optional, if you wanna 200x).

NexStars usualy have good optics ang pretty good GOTO accuracy (if I use 2 star aligment option with "NexStar aligment FAQ" tips, desired objects are in FOV even at 100x).

But they have noisy motors and poor tracking - objects drifts out of FOV in 10-40 mins (depending on particular scope). Also 114 requere more accurate collimation since it's a short newt (with correction lens though).
http://www.angelfire.com/ns/nexstar/

Да вы скажите человеку по нормальному, по русски что к чему, чтобы без сомнений, и по точнее получилось. Англицкий он суховатый язык. А Миндаугас, он хоть и не русский, но по русски может получше нас понимает. (Просто нету у него в компе поддержки русскоязычной клавиатуры)

Гари

Hi again. Thanks for your input. In fact I am Lithuanian (Litovec), and I speak Russian quite fluently. Thus, Gari is very much correct - I simply do not have Russian language support in my PC.
I am also considering Meade ETX 105 or 125. Ideally I hope to get one of these scoper second hand, so that I would be able to fit into my budget of up to 800$.

Mindaugas