As a keen follower of shows such as The Sky at Night with the legendary Sir Patrick Moore, I've always had a keen interest in astronomy. To this end, my wife bought me a telescope for Christmas a couple of years ago, and the model she decided to buy me was the Sky-Watcher Explorer 130P. Now I had a small telescope when I was a kid, and found it slightly difficult to use, with only a small magnification factor and so I didn't really know what to expect from my new present. Obviously I realised that technology had moved on a great deal since that first scope, but what kind of magnification could it offer? How easy was it to actually find an object in the viewer? ...  Read the complete review