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Hello, just looking for a bit of advice.

So I was searching for a good reflector telescope for the EQ6 R and I saw there was a lot of people on Astrobin using the Skywatcher Quattro 10CF OTA on an NEQ6 mount and they were getting some decent images, then I googled the weight of the Quattro 10 CF and it was almost 15kg which is around 80% of the mounts 18kg weight capacity, and ...

Hi all I’m very new to this and this might seem like a really stupid question ,right I’ve noticed when I switch my finder scope on red dot appears so I fix this to a point but if I move my head to a different position the red dot has moved and is nowhere near the first point I looked at so theirfore the scope is out as well how do I make sure the ...

2 days ago I studied Jupiter and saw its rings and 4 of its moons with a reasonable degree of sharpness. Last night I tried to view Venus but all I could see was a super bright white ball with slightly fuzzy edges. How can I get detail from my 8 inch GSO dobsonian? Do I need to cover part of the apature or use some kind of filter please?

Can anyone tell me a good one to choose that will still enable us to see planets/star constellations please? As you can tell I'm a beginner...

Hello Forum Folk!
Just signed up as I'm a total newbie to astronomy. It took a 76 years birthday present of a BK1309 EQ2 to get me started and already I'm loving it! I spent my working life in engineering so its not too daunting but help with two questions would be appreciated.
In setting up the RDF, I located a distant spire in the 'scope eyepiece with 25mm lens. But there isn't enough lateral ...

Hi,

After many months of reading and lots of confusion on what to get for my first scope, I have come down to a few things that I would like from it. Easy to set up and carry, light weight, and can use basically straight away when set up. My main interests are DSO’s galaxies star clusters ect.So after going through many reviews on different scopes I’ve decided that the Star Travel 102 would be ...

Hi everyone I have just watched the sky at night program about oumuamuo and I do not understand it’s trejectory on the tv programme it is shown as a large u shape through our solar system I do not understand how it can be a u shape??? Why isn’t it a mostly straight trajectory’ through our space how can it be a u shape could someone please explain in simple terms that I might be ...

Hello Everybody,

My name is Gert and i am new here at this forum (like it).
I live in Holland and have been busy on astronomy for a few years now.

I have 2 scopes the SW 200p dobsonian and my new grab and go SW heritage 130p flextube.
Really like them both.

Also i have a question about the SW heritage 130p flextube.
I want to buy a 2x times Barlow for it, but ...

WHY are you not able to post IMAGES on THIS forum

I won't moan about you have it all in the US especially when it comes to low cost gear, which is a LOT cheaper that we have in the Uk, but even taking in to account our money grabbing government who add 20% VAT to our purchases,

Why are PST and other solar scopes still so expensive.

Surely the parts that make up a PST can not justify £900 ( $1272.84 )

I appreciate the ...