I live in a
Someone near me has a Skywatcher 12" Flextube Synscan in good condition at a good price. I know its pretty large/heavy/bulky but if it were for home use then that would be ok. For the
Thanks for the guidance!
[mention]JayTee[/mention] my old newt has no adjustments on the secondary to collimate. Not sure how it was originally done. But I must admit, there is a good deal of jonesing as you put it for sure, and ya, kind of have a hole burning in my pocket I was out tonight doing some photography to see how I like that. Its kinda fun too but I think where I am is SO light polluted that its going to be pretty tough to do much at all from my residential back yard unless I can convince my neighbors to turn off their floodlightsJayTee wrote: ↑Tue Jan 21, 2020 2:40 am Is your 10" Newt refurbishable? I repurposed my 8" Newt (home built in 1972) and put on a new Dob mount and now it sees quite a bit of use. There is not a lot of difference between a 10 and 12" Newt of roughly the same f ratio. Maybe you're just "Jonesing" for a new scope, and I can't say that I blame you. Just remember that your best scope is the one you will actually use!
Cheers,
JT
We hope to retire to a small farm inpakarinen wrote: ↑Fri Jan 24, 2020 5:19 pm I'm in a B8 and use 2 fracs (80mm and 120mm) at home for DSO observing. But it depends on the DSO. Open clusters are good to great, some globs are decent but many are faint itty-bitty fuzzballs. A few brighter galaxies are ok, but M33 for example is nowhere to be seen. Brighter emission and reflection nebulas are ok to pretty good, but M78 is not visible.
The positive side is that I can carry my scopes onto my deck one-handed and I'm observing in a few minutes. Plus they're light enough that I can take them to a dark(er) site pretty easily.
I'm not sure I'd want a big Dob myself just because of the bulk and need for storage space. But maybe someday...
I enjoy doubles with my frac at around 120x - you are correct, they are seldom impacted by light pollution.Gfamily wrote: ↑Sat Jan 25, 2020 2:07 pm A lot of people enjoy observing and trying to split interesting doubles and binary stars as their observation can be less affected by LP.
I understand that these are often best hunted down with a good refractor - and it doesn't need to be huge as they will often take more magnification than the usual rules of thumb allow.
I built mine with black shower curtains. About $12 each from Amazon. Possibly quieter than tarps if the wind picks up, but they do have to be weighed down in a strong breeze. I use spring clamps from HF to weigh them down.
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