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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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