Celestron C5's and C8's are the surest bet. They didn't have the best coatings but the original Celestron Pacific C8's had very very consistently decent optics. Plus the tube was far better made if you have torn as many down as I have you would see the small things like the secondar...
believing the Celestron ad copy that positioned it as a do-anything camera, specifically both imaging and guiding. They didn't bother to mention to this then-newbie that there's a *big* difference between Deep Sky imaging (what
If you can put up with the 45 degree focuser and aren't looking for 100x plus, spotters like the Pentaxes and Celestron EDs use 1.25 inch eyepieces so you can get wide field views, vignetting might be an issue. Jon Jon already gave you an answer and this would be the most appropriat...
I have a Televue refractor, all-Televue eyepieces, plus an 8" goto Celestron reflector - for more than 20 years (and now an eVscope). I regularly travel to one of the US's darkest sites (Cherry Springs State Park) and hang out with fantastic people. Some of these folks have 20, ...
Had a night of perfect seeing at the WSP in the Florida Keys in I believe 2006. I had a good Celestron 9.25" SCT that I got some really good pictures of Saturn with that night. For kicks, I took the scope up to 1200X. Still sharp, with a razor sharp Cassini division. Over-magnif...
x power on Mars when it was at opposition with good seeing. Nowadays with the 4 inch Edmund and the 6 inch refractor they seem to start getting annoying when the exit pupil starts getting below 0.6mm or so. Could use that as a explanation to the wife for getting a bigger telescope, ...
Joined:11 Jan 2006 Loc:New Rochelle, New York Posted16 February 2024 - 07:54 PM I have had my TV102 at 440X on Saturn, my TV NP-101 at 432X on Jupiter, My Takahashi FS-152 at 600X on Jupiter, the Celestron Edge 9.25" at 587X on Mars, and my 12" Dob at 760X viewing the...
Page 2 of 12 - Best Refractors You Have Used - posted in Refractors : 1. Carton 61.7mm ~f/16.7 2. BO 90mm f/6.7 Triplet with FPL-53 and Lanthanum glass 3. 50mm f/14 Swift 4. SV80ED f/7 5. 102mm f/9.8 Celestron OMNI These I have owned in the past. I cur