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Hi, I am a bit confused doing some research to get by first telescope. As I want something portable and easy to set up I'm leaning towards maybe a 4inch refractor. I understand that the image will be upside down but reading some sources they suggest the image may also be a mirror image.Now I think I can cope with an upside down image for star hopping but not too sure about mirror image on ...

When I switch on my Celestron mount one of the questions on the hand set is Day Light Saving?

Would the answer be yes because we're in BST or no because we're in BST and it's already accounted for. Or no because we're in BST and it's already accounted for!

Also, we'll be in GMT in a couple of weeks, so, what then?

TIA

Graeme

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Hi,
Firstly, sorry to hog this forum with my silly questions, but the advice I'm receiving is so helpful to a new hobbyist such as myself. :D

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HI,
For the past few months I've been trying to decide which telescope to buy with the help of you good people. I've been umming and ahhing so much over which scope to get that I think I'd still be doing that for the next few months if I didnt just go out and buy one. So today I went out to my local Argos store and bought a reduced priced Celestron Astro Fi 130 ...