can i view planets in daytime from a 76mm reflector telescope?
ralbh asked:
I have a “76mm star tracker 76″ telescope and 2 eye pieces 1 x 20mm lower power and 1 x 12mm high power..im a beginner and i want to see as much planets as i can.Please help me.
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I have a “76mm star tracker 76″ telescope and 2 eye pieces 1 x 20mm lower power and 1 x 12mm high power..im a beginner and i want to see as much planets as i can.Please help me.
March 23rd, 2010 at 9:02 am
You can see Venus and Jupiter during the day without too much difficulty, but neither are well-positioned at the moment.
What’s wrong with going out at night? You scope isn’t very big, and needs all the help it can get. Viola At Neon
March 23rd, 2010 at 9:33 pm
You can see Venus easily enough by day with 10×50 binoculars when it is at its brightest, so a 76mm scope should have no problems.
But apart from the “been there done that” aspect of it you will get much better views at night, and finding planets during the day isn’t easy. Even if you have a computer star finder, there are no naked-eye objects you can use to align it in the daytime.
If you do try it, be very careful that you never accidentally look at the sun through your scope, otherwise that may be the last thing that you EVER look at, for the rest of your life… Rob T