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We all started somewhere! We are a friendly bunch! Most of your questions can be posted here, but if you are interested in Astrophotography please use the new Beginner Astrophotography forum. The response time will be much better.
Considering selling my equipment and going the DSLR route. The DSLR can be dual purposes vs a telescope. Don’t use my telescope much this past year....
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In case it helps you with your DSLR setup, here's mine:
What is the maximum degrees of separation between 2 planets before they are in conjunction? Is there a formula using RA and Declination or an online...
Exhausted searching for new scope. Giving myself a deadline.
*I may just order the 102mm Explore Scientific FirstLight refractor and take my chances....
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I usually observe from my back deck /yard and can't keep a scope outside for practical reasons like the weather, so I prefer to use a grab-n-go...
Hello! I am just beginning with a telescope. The Orion XT8. I did my first look and I don’t know if I’m working it right. I focused in on a star and...
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I have noticed on my celestial Software, Cartes du Ciel, that the Celestial Equator has been moving downward through the centuries. For example,...
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The celestial equator is not moving downwards . There is no up or down in space. It is a great circle and. like all great circles in the sky...
There is a public viewing event this Wednesday, March 8( yes, I'm sure they know, its a full moon) at Anderson Farm Park outside of Collegville, Pa.,...
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Hopefully in a few months we will be living in southern NJ so in the future that would be a possibility.
Please help I have a second hand Sky-Watcher BK 1309 telescope. When I look through the eyepiece the image is upside down (normal) but the image runs...
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Since this is a newtonian, I have to wonder if what he is seeing is a bad mirror mis-alignment and that his visual field is not round and he is...
Hello, I have purchased a Celestron SE8 Telescope. I've read the manual until i think i can quote it, and I still cannot get it to align properly not...
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Ladies and Gentlemen , first, thank you all for the suggestions and tips to help me with my issue. To me it was a real pain in the tuckus and I...
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