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TPK
#1 Posted : Monday, October 28, 2013 11:19:37 AM
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Good morning wazuans, are there any institutions or persons in Nairobi who have a telescope and can allow me to gaze at the skys? I need to have a closer look at the milky way galaxy, mars & other planets, moon and the stars. If there are none, where can one buy one? Thanks
As long as you're going to be thinking anyway, think big
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Am
#2 Posted : Monday, October 28, 2013 11:22:24 AM
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Gut feeling is only @Typo can know of such things.
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God..
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jaggernaut
#3 Posted : Monday, October 28, 2013 11:38:07 AM
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Buy hapa at AMAZON UK and ask Morey or the Warias to ship to you coz i don't think Amazon ships directly to Kenyan addresses.

You can also load the 'Google Skyview' app on your smartphone to help you gaze at the sky and identify the stars and the planets.
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tycho
#4 Posted : Monday, October 28, 2013 11:39:21 AM
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Am wrote:
Gut feeling is only @Typo can know of such things.


I've been learning to use the naked eye like the Tycho of old. Though I've also been contemplating a telescope.

I won't be of help here.
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seppuku
#5 Posted : Monday, October 28, 2013 3:08:39 PM
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TPK wrote:
Good morning wazuans, are there any institutions or persons in Nairobi who have a telescope and can allow me to gaze at the skys? I need to have a closer look at the milky way galaxy, mars & other planets, moon and the stars. If there are none, where can one buy one? Thanks


As someone has said, Amazon or Ebay are definitely good places to look for those types of things. Out of curiosity, unatafuta nini mbinguni? Or are you just curious?
Learn first to treat your time as you would your money, then treat your money as you do your time.
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Museveni
#6 Posted : Monday, October 28, 2013 4:01:32 PM
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http://africahoukenya.blogspot.com/

https://www.facebook.com/HandsOnUniverseAfrica

Live and learn; and don’t forget, nothing ventured, nothing gained.
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TPK
#7 Posted : Monday, October 28, 2013 4:42:35 PM
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seppuku wrote:
TPK wrote:
Good morning wazuans, are there any institutions or persons in Nairobi who have a telescope and can allow me to gaze at the skys? I need to have a closer look at the milky way galaxy, mars & other planets, moon and the stars. If there are none, where can one buy one? Thanks


As someone has said, Amazon or Ebay are definitely good places to look for those types of things. Out of curiosity, unatafuta nini mbinguni? Or are you just curious?


I am just curious to see at a closer range what other bodies can be observed from earth, how they look and how far we can see in the cosmos from our planet.
I think those guys at NASA must really be having an interesting perspective of the universe, especially the live photos relayed back by voyager 1, now 19 billion kms from earth.
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TPK
#8 Posted : Monday, October 28, 2013 4:44:16 PM
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jaggernaut wrote:
Buy hapa at AMAZON UK and ask Morey or the Warias to ship to you coz i don't think Amazon ships directly to Kenyan addresses.

You can also load the 'Google Skyview' app on your smartphone to help you gaze at the sky and identify the stars and the planets.


Thanks, will try the app.
As long as you're going to be thinking anyway, think big
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GGK
#9 Posted : Monday, October 28, 2013 8:51:52 PM
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Why not Just build yours ..... as a scientist, it's more satisfying
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holycow
#10 Posted : Monday, October 28, 2013 10:10:29 PM
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Well, welcome to the club, i purchased a telescope 6omm aperture, focal length 900mm from Ebay, the seller was based in China, item was shipped to Kenya via ems, it cost me $120+20 =140 dollars. KRA charged me 3295/= I ordered the item in mid September and it arrived in early October.
So far, i can clearly see the craters on the moon and very enjoyable. When it comes to other celestial bodies, it doesn't do so well, the light gets faded, it came with Barlow lenses of 20mm, 12.5mm and 2 mm, surprisingly, 20mm gives the best view.
The telescope is refractive telescope for beginners, if i were you, i'd purchase one with 110mm and above aperture.
See the post http://www.wazua.co.ke/forum.aspx?g=posts&m=473940
Check my posts on the same issue.

Before i went Ebay, i went to Xtreme outdoors at Yaya Centre and the cheapest was 150k .

I checked olx but the ones on sale were spotting scopes and not Astronomical telescopes.
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