spotting scopes for astronomy.

Celestron Regal 100 F-ED 4"/100mm Spotting Scope Kit. How would something like this be for casual astronomy? Quick looks at saturn, jup. and the moon. And some of the brighter deep sky targets.
T.

Tony Grigsby said:

Celestron Regal 100 F-ED 4"/100mm Spotting Scope Kit. How would something like this be for casual astronomy? Quick looks at saturn, jup. and the moon. And some of the brighter deep sky targets.
T.

My two cents:

You have two things working against you, the Amici prism means that mostly like it is not going to be a great performer at the higher powers one wants for Saturn, Jupiter and the moon. Second, it is limited to 1.25 inch eyepieces. I will still provide a reasonably wide field of view but not like a similar focal length astro-scope.

Jon