Telescopes

June 17 2010

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The hard case would be great but it’s way too expensive (539$). Is there something like a cloth travel case that would be a lot less expensive for my telescope?

Dude you have a telescope that costs over $2000, dropping a relatively small amount of money on the carrying case to protect your investment seems like a pretty good idea, but that’s just me.

I’m making a telescope model and need to creat specifically a a galilean one. How do i make one with household items and if i need specific lenses where or how can i get them?

Might try these folks -

https://www.galileoscope.org/gs/

The other thing you could do is check out thrift stores for old, junk binoculars or telescopes.

Other ideas is make your own optical table with a yardstick, putty (playdough) and some sort of flat surface

http://www.anchoroptics.com/documents/

http://www.anchoroptics.com/pages/category/Educational%20Optics.cfm

As the title says! This is my best yet I have Captured! And as I said in my old jupiter video I used a better Camera! With time it will get better! In the future I will get an HD Camcorder! Nevertheless I myself was IMPRESSED at what this C8 can do! In a part of the video When I had a PERFECT Seeing condition You could Start to see more detail in Jupiter I was impressed! And yes it WAS recorded from an 8 inch telescope! Enjoy! I will bring more soon! It was recorded With a Sony DCR-SR45 HandyCam camcorder. All manually Guided by me no camera adapter or anything like that. It was difficult But I focused and kept Steady. Thanks again for watching!

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it comes with a 20mm and a 4mm, and a barstow 3x, what oher pieces, filters shall i buy?

Start small and work your way up. You should be able to just drop in each eyepiece and then fine tune the focusing.

As magnification increases, you’ll have more trouble locating your target. Vibration in your scope will also be highly magnified. The image will get less bright, too.

It will become painfully obvious if you use a 3x barlow. Magnification is not always your friend.

My budget is about $2000-$5000 for a telescope. For a microscope i really don’t have a limit.Probably $30,000. But I want one that I can view chromosomes and DNA

The big three telescope companies are Meade, Celestron, and Orion. Orion tends to have more low cost beginner telescopes.

I want to get my husband a telescope for a Christmas present. We live on a small lake in the middle of nowhere, and the stars are always bright. I would love to get him a reasonably priced telescope to see stars and planets. Any suggestions? I would like to stay below $300. Is that possible?

★ I would like to suggest that you join a local astronomy club or astronomical society BEFORE you spend your money on a real telescope. There are many different kinds of scopes and what is perfect for one person is not perfect for another. Everyone has their own set of eyeballs and no two are the same. If you join a club, you can attend a few of their star parties and try out members scopes to see what works best for YOU, before you buy a scope. The members can also help you when you get your scope and show you how to get the most out of your new scope as well as to help teach you where the treasures in the sky are located. Most clubs have loaner scopes and extensive libraries that you can gather more information from too. Most clubs will have monthly membership meetings with informative presentations given by members and by guest speakers. You can really learn a lot from these clubs and an added plus is all the great new friends you make there too. Go to this site to find a club in your area. http://www.astroleague.org/societies/list
This only has clubs that belong to the National Astronomy League, so there are many more which do not appear on this list. Continue searching google if you don’t see one in your area here.
★There are several different kinds of telescopes and all of them have some excellent features. Refractors and Reflectors, plus Schmidt-Cassegrain, APO refractors, Mac-Cass, and many more. There are also several mounts to chose from and the mounts are just as important, if not even more important, than the scope is. All of the different scopes and mounts have some features that some people like and do not like.
★ No two eyeballs are the same and the perfect scope for one person might be completely wrong for another person.
★There is no one scope that is "better" than another, except for all the junk scopes out there, which are all just a waste of money. Never, ever buy from Walmart, Costco, Target, or any other discount store like that. Junk scopes are flooded into the market from those stores. You will be buying nothing but bad optics and plastic. You must buy from a reputable telescope manufacturer or telescope distributor or telescope store. If they don’t specialize in telescopes, look elsewhere.
★This is a new article from Sky and telescope that will tell you about a few types of telescopes and how to choose your first telescope

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/equipment/basics/12511616.html

★ If you are new at this, then stay away from anything used from ANY site. If you don’t know what you are buying and who you are buying from you will most likely be getting someone else’s headache—with no warranty either. Some great deals on used equipment are out there, by people who know how to use and take care of scopes, but if you don’t know what you are doing, you might be spending a lot of money on worthless junk. One improper cleaning can destroy a scope. Buyer Beware.
★I recommend: http://oriontelescopes.com/
Orion is the very best for value and for customer service too. I have 3 of their scopes and I will only buy from them from now on. My first scope was a manual controlled scope and I am very glad that it was because it forced me to learn where things are in the night skies. Go-To type scopes can be frustrating to use. If you do not have them aligned exactly perfect, they do not find the targets. If you are a beginner, you will be frustrated unless you spring for a GPS Go-To. An object locator is just that—it will locate objects for you (must be aligned first) but an object locator is not a tracking motor. It will not keep the scope on the target. The Orion site has some excellent diagrams and explanations of all types of scopes and mounts.
★ Things to consider are size–can the user lift and transport the scope to the viewing site easily? Does it fit in your car? If not, then it will gather dust in a closet. I recommend a carrying case too so it is protected in storage and transport. Can the viewer reach all the knobs and buttons? I have a long tube large manual refractor and it is very difficult for me to reach the knobs when I am pointed to Zenith. I am not a tall person.
★Some people will try to suggest that you get Binnoculars instead of a telescope. That is not a bad idea but at bare minimum you need 10×50 size and you MUST have a tripod for astronomical viewing. Even your pulse will make them shake. My personal preference is a telescope because Binnoculars must be aligned properly at the factory. If they are not, they you see double or triple vision of everything rendering them useless for astronomy. They can easily be bumped out of alignment too, so be very careful.
★ Take your time in making your decision.
★ Don’t try to learn everything all at once or you will be overwhelmed and discouraged. Patience is the key to Astronomy.
★ You will need a good star chart program too.

http://www.stellarium.org/

Tell it where you are and it will tell you what you see. I wish you the very best.

With a dmk21 firewire
Red channel
Barlow Meade X2 apo

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I recently bought a panasonic sd9 high definition 1920x1080p camcorder, and decided to hook it up to one of my telescopes and see how well it worked for observing the sun with a solar filter. Digital Technology is an absolutley phenomenal companion to astronomy. This thing can also read the liscense plate of a parked car from several miles distance. With the proper software, this can track faces, as well as planetary objects.

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its probably x37b.
Video captured about 5pm over illinois

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