So I hope by now you had a chance to use it what did you think about the telescope? Was my Overview really helpful?

@@AstroPatio Very! I just bought one for myself because of this video. Thank you!

@@jeffreyglatting1497 Hope you enjoy it as much as I have. Clear Skies.

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Clear skies my friend ☺

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He did do a good job and illustrated everything well - agree - He just needs to relax ;>)

Great birthday gift. I'm glad you found this video helpful. Hope you enjoy the scope as much as I do. Remember to look up and enjoy our view from the blue marble.

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Great video indeed ☺

Clear Sky's, hope you enjoy it as much as I have enjoyed and learned the night sky with mine.

Glad you liked it hope it answered any question you might have had. Greeting from Texas.

Hope you enjoy looking at the night sky. Clear skies and enjoy the view from the blue marble.

Thanks I did watch your video before I made mine, when i was deciding what telescope I wanted to get.

Can i ask a question please, the telescope slews left and right, but when it goes up and down using a motor i can move it up amd down by hand aswell i was just wondering if thats normal? Or is mine broke? Thanks

@@lloydowen6900 sorry for the extremely late reply, you probably got this answer already! No, i think it’s normal as mine does that as well

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Glad you liked it! hope it was helpful.

Both are a good choice I think for starter scopes but i have not used the SE's

For align the 25 or 17. For finding object may be the 17 or 13 not sure. Also tonight the moon shouls be right next to the triplet so it will be washed out a bit and hard to find because with visual there hard to see in the first place. So when your trying to find then use averted vision will help. Averted vision is basicly loog for them off to the side and not directly in the center of where your looking.

Yes a 2" Barlow is a good idea and most of them have 1 1/4" adapters. Light pollution filters are great if your imaging but they cut down to much light for optical viewing and not really necessary for planetary imaging you can edit the light pollution to some extent out. I have found my Alt Azimuth mount is not great for DSO that's not to say a different one might do better than mine particular unit.

I think the SkyPortal WiFi adapter from Celestron works with the SLT mount, that will allow you to use your phone and Stellariam

I use mine on my apartment patio that about 4 1/2 feet out from the wall and its enough to slew around it and be able to look in the eyepiece. The spread on the tripod legs is just over 3ft and the scope stays with in that when slewing. The only issue i see is its a balcony and will be prone to the scope shaking when you or someone is moving around. I have used batteries just a couple of time and they lasted longer than i did and that was about 4 hours of viewing those nights i figure you would get about 6 hours, but i did use fresh batteries next time i went out. I have a power tanks for power.

Hello, thanks for your quick answer :) Okay, I will translate these feet into the metric system (European here :D ) and check out my balcony. How stable is the tripod? I am currently using a Celestron Travelscope 70 and the mount and tripod drive me nuts :S Do you think a NexStar 130 will be a massive upgrade? Your videos are awesome, not as intimidating as most astronomy forums and websites, talking from a beginners point of view. Keep the videos coming :)

just looked on line for the Travelscope and I would say the tripod is a lot more stable and most definitely an upgrade.

Cool, thanks. :)

I would suggest get in touch with Celestron they have helped me out with parts a couple of times.

You might also need a portable power tank to get the best out of your telescope

Yes I have used a 2x barlow and it works good just can't track to take video for to long at that magnification things still pass fast across my field of view. Yes colamation might help as well. It could be just a cheep 2x Barlow also.

@@AstroPatio looking at the box now it is an Omni brand barlow, so I'm not sure if it's considered a quality piece or not. I believed it to be upon purchasing, if I recall correctly. Perhaps I'll go out tonight and fiddle around with it again and see if I can get anything in focus. I'm an amateur, but I could not even get the moon focused no matter how low or high I played with it. Just a big blur, so I just stick with using the OEM lens for viewing.

@@AstroPatio just referred to a collimation video on KZfaq and looked into my scope and it does appear to be a bit off center. Fun, now I need to adjust the diagnal reflector.

I hope you found it informative. Look up and enjoy the view from the Blue Marble.

Yes you can. You will need a T adapter for your make of camera attached to a Barlow lens, with out the Barlow you will not have enough inward focus to achieve focus on this OTA. Or a Phone adapter to use in conjunction with an eye piece.

@@AstroPatio Thank you :)

I'm satisfied with the sharpness of the moon and other bright objects of mine.

Sure is a nice video ☺

Yes it is true you cannot take very log exposure pictures of like deep space objects. I have gotten about 5 second exposures of M20 the Trifid nebula before the stars stared to have trails. You have to remember that this is a less expensive beginner’s telescope and mainly meant to be used for optical viewing and getting to know the night sky not really designed for taking still pictures. The tracking head alt/azimuth drive is not that accurate for long periods of time as a more expensive Equatorial mount would be. You can however take longer videos of the planets as long as you are not using like a 2x Barlow or larger. The more zoom the faster the objects moves across you field of view and harder for the tracking mount to keep up. I have used mine for 3 years now and learned about the objects in the night sky and have just upgraded my mount to an Equatorial to use with the SLT130 tube for better tracking and really getting into Astrophotography. This is an expensive hobby but I am learning as I go along and upgrading my equipment as I want to do more, baby steps. When doing planets its best to take video of the planets and stack the video for a good image of the planets. With about 3min of video you get more than enough individual images of the planet in stacking to get good, not the best details that you would get in a more expensive scope. With knowing this is a starter scope I have been very pleased with the results I have gotten with this scope.

@@AstroPatio im kind of sas rigth now becouse i was almost sure tu buy , this one(SKYWATCHER REFLECTOR 150/750 BD EQ3-2 PRO GOTO) but some one just told me , that i cannot make astrophotography becouse , the ecuatorial mount is the seem weigth than the telescopy....... tell me thats not truth :(

Yes looks like it buy the time you add a camera and guide scope the weight of everything would be more than the mount can support.

To be truthful If you plan on doing astrophotography from the start it will cost you to get started. You need an Equatorial mount that will support all the weight and a little more to be safe of the OTA, Guide Scope, guide camera and the dedicated Astronomy or DSLR camera combined that you will need to put on the OTA.

Of course use the smaller numbered Eyepiece to get closer views, you should have gotten 2 sizes. You can also get a 2x or larger Barlow Lens to attach between your eyepieces and the telescope focuser where the eyepiece goes. Also remember this time of year the planets are moving further away from earth so there getting smaller. Also for visual viewing if you got any filters to screw into your eyepieces different colors make different details on the planets pop out a little more kind of like they add contrast to different features. Clear Sky's and have fun looking at the view from our Blue Marble, and most of all have fun with your new scope. I enjoy mine.

@@AstroPatio thanks for the info...I didn't realize the planets were getting further away for now....see how much I know. 😁 I'll have to try the filters. Where can I find those? I do have a 3x Barlow lens that I've been using. It brings Saturn in a bit closer but still not as large as I'm hoping to see.

Here is a couple of suggestions. The smaller package has 3 colors and 1 moon filter good starter pack but if you can afford it the larger gives you more options of color that brings out different details for the planets www.telescope.com/Orion/Orion-Deluxe-Stargazers-125-Eyepiece-Filter-Set/rc/2160/p/5590.uts www.highpointscientific.com/telescope-accessories/filters/lunar-planetary-filters/apertura-moon-and-planets-filter-set-with-blue-red-yellow-and-moon-filters-lpset2

The mount head its self takes 8 AA batteries that will last at least 6 hours. The only power connector is the round I think the size is 5mm plug. You will need that adapter to plug into a power tank if it does not come with one. You can also use a car 12v cigerate lighter abapter and use your car battery.

​@@AstroPatiookay, thank you so much :)

yes you right but it does make it a little more difficult to track objects in the sky. Still wish they would add some sort of hand dial operated tracking override.

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The smaller mm eyepiece should make the planets bigger than you naked eye. Also this time of year the planets you could see with this scope are getting further away so it is getting to the point you may not be able to make out any detail on the planets, like the bands or great red spot on Jupiter with this scope while visually viewing. Also have you tried to put any colored filters on the eyepiece those can help with making out details like the bands, it knocks down the brightness your eye can not compensate for and helps with contrast.

@@AstroPatio i have not tried the colored filters but i can try and true I didn’t really think about that with the planets

Honest it not the DT's. lol

Yes the light turns red. Try cleaning the spring and solid terminal on each of the battery packs along with the push terminals on the outside of the battery holders. It could be a wiring issue have you tried the 12v plug in the mount yet to see if that makes it work.

@@AstroPatio 12v plug? Did they give me something for that?

@@TwisT02 yea there should be a car cigarette lighter cable with a round end that plugs into the base.

@@AstroPatio I don’t have that

It does a good job for viewing Planets, of course its no SCT at 2300mm but it still takes good video of nice bright objects like planets that you can stack and get very nice results. I thinks its a good starter and you can see larger fuzzies like Andromeda galaxy. One drawback to taking picture of deep space objects you have to use short exposure times, the tracking is not that accurate.

Yes you can but remember the scope is not like a more costly SCT or the Hubble with a longer focal length that fills more of the field of view with the planets, but you can see division in the color bands of Jupiter along with the moons. You can see Saturn and the rings fairly good. Its a great starter scope.

What telescope under 250USD would you recommend me for astrophotography?

I'm not the one to recommend I don't know enough about other telescopes but 250USD is not that much, you have to consider the mount and OTA into the equation. This one is good enough for the closer planets but not DSO. Here are some samples of what i have done with this scope. telescopius.com/profile/Blue_Diazo

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@@kellydavis4330 is it better than Celestron astromaster 130 EQ?

LOL... I am still using it.

@@AstroPatio then can you buy it for me?

That video was from 3 years ago thats how much I paid for it.

@@AstroPatio so the price goes up as time goes by? Not down?

You got to remember your looking at things very far away and it is a only a 500mm focal length, the stars are always pinpoints you don't notice the difference until you look at things like planets like Saturn and see the space between the rings and the planet or Jupiter and see the bands on the surface and the Galilean moons, you cant see things like that with your eyes only. With the telescope your only looking at a small portion of the sky. depending on the and different eyepieces its bringing closer a bigger or smaller percent of the sky to one eye so it is actually closer. Remember to look up and enjoy the view from our Blue Marble with or with out a telescope.

Try and find some double stars and see if you can see if it splits the stars some I know you can split but some can't. Also look for some star clusters open or globular those make good targets for the scope.

@@AstroPatio thanks for the replies I've ordered some better lens . Barlow etc etc . Maybe a better out come than standard