Bresser Messier Dobson 6-Inch 150/750 mm Telescope - White

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You are going to break through the final frontier; you spent ten grand to see the cosmos as only a few of us have seen it. Accompanied by the greatest, sharpest, and widest apparent field of view eyepieces, you couldn’t get a better view of the stars even from the starship Enterprise. How to Choose the Right Reflector Telescope? Schmidt-Cassegrain optical system offers bright, sharp views with StarBright XLT optical coatings—a great choice for visual observers and budding astroimagers alike. StarBright XLT is Celestron’s revolutionary optical coating system that outperforms any other coating in the commercial telescope market. There are three major components that make up our StarBright XLT high-transmission optical system design: Unique enhanced multi-layer mirror coatings, multi-layer anti-reflective coatings, and high-transmission water white glass. These three components of our StarBright XLT coatings result in one of the finest coatings available. In the past several years, there was a significant price drop of the reflecting telescopes, especially the large aperture Dobsonians – the best reflector telescopes became more affordable to the broader public, and with that, astronomy became a lot more popular.

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We viewed Saturn’s rings, the Moon’s craters, and Jupiter’s cloud bands.The compact and portable reflector telescope also includes an adjustable, full-height steel tripod, which was ideal for the kids and my taller husband.Control your telescope using your smart device. The Astro Fi series emits its own wireless connection to Celestron’s SkyPortal app to provide easy remote observing. Celestron’s SkyPortal app replaces the traditional telescope hand control for a 100% wireless experience. Scan the sky for an object you would like to view, tap the object in SkyPortal and watch your Astro Fi telescope automatically slews to the object. While observing, SkyPortal provides information on the object; it’s never been more fun to explore the universe! Larger telescopes are more “sensitive” to atmospheric turbulence – you really need a steady seeing to make the most of them.

Celestron StarSense Explorer DX 6 Inch SCT Telescope

The Astro Fi 6 inch is a computerized alt-azimuth Schmidt Cassegrain telescope perfect for astronomy, powerful with very high quality optics. The Astro Fi offers dazzling views of craters on the Moon, the rings of Saturn, the Great Red Spot on Jupiter, the Orion Nebula, the Hercules Globular Cluster and so much more at night. The closed tube offers protection against humidity and dust and there is almost no maintenance or cleaning needed. These telescopes have a design made only of lenses, resulting in a lighter and more transportable telescope. It can be a challenge to get a great quality six inch telescope in the refractor family. Here is one Reflectors generally provide much larger apertures, which means they can gather more light and display crisper and brighter images.Take a look at the dramatic difference in magnification between the following two images of the Pinwheel Galaxy. The version on the left was captured using a crop-sensor DSLR with an 80mm refractor telescope, while the version on the right used the new iOptron Photron RC6. As you can see, an RCT is a much better fit if you want to collect close-ups of smaller DSO’s like the Pinwheel Galaxy. Celestron NexStar 6 SE Telescope Portability and serious performance come together in the NexStar 6 SE. Celestron’s first new Schmidt-Cassegrain optical system in over a decade is now available in a high performance altazimuth computerized telescope. With a total weight of 30 pounds including the tripod, the ultra portable 6 SE features a precision optical system with 1500mm focal length (f10) and offers 44% more light gathering than a 5-inch telescope. Yes, easily. Pluto is magnitude 14.2 I think. Under Bortle 1 skies (I wish I had some of those!) your scope should have a limiting magnitude of 15.5 or better. (Note that you won't see moons of Saturn that are this faint, because of the glare from the planet.) But Pluto looks just like a star, so either you need a star chart that goes down to about magnitude 14.5 or you need to sketch the field on two different days and see which "star" moved.

Ritchey-Chrétien Telescope for Astrophotography A New Ritchey-Chrétien Telescope for Astrophotography

The Meade Infinity 102mm comes with 3 eyepieces that give a choice of low, medium, and high-powered magnification. It has a Red Dot Viewfinder that helps to point objects. Focal length– the longer the focal length of your scope is, the higher magnification you’ll get, the sharper the view will be. Most planetariums and imaging software programs will calculate the most common camera chip sizes for you, or you can do the math for yourself. Richard Wright shared an excellent article on pixel scale for astrophotography in this Sky and Telescope article.If you are looking to invest in an apochromatic telescope that will take you from beginner status to professional, the Sky Watcher Evostar 80 APO Telescope is a perfect choice. That’s because they offer the clearest images (compared to reflectors) and are practically zero-maintenance. The autoguiding telescope I am using is a new StarField 50mm F/3.4 model, from Ontario Telescope and Accessories. This has replaced my old Altair guide scope but continues to house the reliable and no-nonsense Altair GPCAM2 AR0130 mono guide camera. With an Altazimuth Mount, you are able to move your telescope in two directions. The first is in an east-to-west direction (azimuth), the second is an up-or-down (altitude) movement. Altazimuth Mounts usually have slow-motion controls that allow you to easily keep focus on a celestial object as it moves across the sky. GoTo Mount