I'm looking for good YouTube channels about astronomy and astrophotography, but mostly astrophotography. Here is what I am subscribed to so far: ...<snip>... For general astronomy, I like Dr. Becky. Her YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.../DrBecky/videos As an introduction to her,...
Such a loaded question as you will get everyone's one idea of what grab and go is. Grab and go to me means grab the scope and run out to look at something from my back yard. For me that scope is my ten inch dob with setting circles. I will take it with me if i go somewhere...
If you have a telescope but no telephoto lens, you can get anextension tube that lets you mount your camera to the telescope. If you’re interested in serious astrophotography, this is actually an even better solution because you will be able to take photos of things like Saturn’s Rings....
Telescope: RCOS 14.5 Mount: Paramount ME Software: The SkyX, MaximDL, FocusMax, CCDAutoPilot, CCDStack, Photoshop As the infographic points out, you don’t need a rig worth tens of thousands of dollars to take phenomenal astrophotographs. There are any number of tracking mounts for DSLRs ...
Writing telescope user manuals is a moving feast. For 40 years, I professionally wrote guidance documents for financial services products, which was comparatively easy. You cannot imagine the challenges in our hobby. For example, consider the pinned thread in Cloudy Nights for Starsense and Nexstar...
So anyways, A few nights ago it started to get dark and Jupiter and Saturn light up the Southeastern sky. We are looking with awe. We didn't realize how bright Jupiter was through binoculars and a telescope. The light from it is really uncomfortable. Then I notice a light cloud layer ...
So unfortunately it looks like the MyT will definitely be a no go for me. I image with a TS ONTC 10in f4 telescope, so I have experience with the payload you are considering. While I am sure the MyT is a very nice mount, I would be concerned spending that kind of money knowing...
where LCE is the (x spread) / Focal length from the plot, D is the objective diameter in mm, and f/# is the telescope f/#. You want this < 1 for good color correction. So this gives for my intended setup: 750*.04/480*80/6 ...