What can you see with a 180x Telescope?

Im planning to buy the kids National Geographic Land and Sky telescope that says it can go 180x. What do you think? I have little money so Im thinking of buying and using this for starters..What can you see with a 180x Telescope?
Don't waste your money on this toy telescope! Any telescope advertised by its magnification is bound to be a bad deal. The important specification is a telescope's aperture, in this case 50mm. This is too small to show anything much beyond the Moon, Jupiter's moons, and Saturn's rings (very very tiny): basically about 5 minutes of observing for 50 bucks!



If this is your budget, consider instead a 7x35 or 8x40 binocular. This will be far more rugged and versatile, useful for nature watching, plane spotting, etc., as well as astronomy. If it must be a telescope, the SkyWatcher Heritage 76, for about the same money, is a much better deal: larger objective, _much_ better mount, much better optical quality.



Here are a few web pages with good information on beginner's telescopes:

http://www.gaherty.ca/tme/TME0702_Buying鈥?/a>

http://www.scopereviews.com/begin.html

http://observers.org/beginner/j.r.f.begi鈥?/a>



For more advanced information, read Phil Harrington's Star Ware, 4th edition (Wiley).



You'll get the greatest value for your money with a Newtonian reflector on a Dobsonian mount, such as these:

http://www.telescope.com/control/categor鈥?/a>

http://www.skywatchertelescope.net/swtin鈥?/a>



Buy from a store which specializes in telescopes and astronomy, either locally or online; don't buy from department stores, discount stores or eBay as mostly what they sell is junk. Find your local astronomy club and try out different telescopes at one of their star parties:

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/community鈥?/a>



I strongly recommend that beginners steer clear of astrophotography until they have learned their way around the sky. Astrophotography is by far the most expensive and difficult area of amateur astronomy.



Many people who buy telescopes have no idea how to find interesting things to observe. A good introduction to finding things is NightWatch by Terence Dickinson (Firefly). A more advanced book is Star Watch by Phil Harrington (Wiley).
It's not the magnification that counts, it's the light gathering ability. Magnification is a product of focal length times aperture.



It doesn't matter how much you magnify the image it if you don't collect enough light to see it clearly. The larger the diameter of the objective lens or mirror, the better and more color you will see.



I like a my 8 inch diameter reflective scope (inexpensive since it doesn't use lenses, only a parabolic mirror). I can easily see Jupiter's red spot and the Galilean moons, and the rings of Saturn and the Cassini divisions between them. Nebulae are easily visible but color falls off on objects that far away.



The one you reference is good for spying on neighbors or looking at the moon but you will be disappointed with trying to see much of anything else. A good pair of binoculars would probably be just as good.What can you see with a 180x Telescope?
it is cheap better u can go to orion or skyview telescope for good price and good quality.

price is 49.95 dollars cheaper and wont work proper. better go for orion or astronamical or sky view telescopeWhat can you see with a 180x Telescope?
If that is as much as you can spend I would choose this one-

http://www.telescope.com/control/telesco鈥?/a>

It is a better telescope on a better mount.

Wally
It's a waste of money. You'd be better off with 7x50 binoculars.



If your in Australia, get with these folks for help -

http://www.iceinspace.com.au/index.php?h鈥?/a>
Depends where you look with it =) It sounds good, im sure they'll love it