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It looks to be within my budget. And household management will (maybe) agree to it for an upcoming b-day present. So please chime in. Tell me your thoughts and pl;ease share any reviews etc you can find.
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Personally I would prefer a actual hand controller than having to rely on something that connects through wifi/ bluetooth. A personal preference.
Do you have an idea of what you may like to view with it?
For setting up can you just walk out the door or do you need to carry it down multiple stairs?
How is your light pollution in your area?
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Short focal length Newtonian give wider field views, larger
What would you say your maximum budget is?
They still drop out for various reasons, a wired hand controller to the mount, no issues. Like I stated just personal preference.
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There are also refractors both manual and
Optically the telescopes are good though.
Or you can get a telescope like this: https://agenaastro.com/sky-watcher-6-tr ... 11600.html though it is manual, a 200mm is $100USD more.
A lot of
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The scopes themselves (there are 4, 2 refractor and 2 refractor) are the same as there respectively sized astromaster scope. However it has the Star sense mount attached which very basically will tel you what you are looking at. They all seemed to be on manual alt/az mounts. The smaller two on az2 and the larger two on az3.
I thought they looked good for a beginner so you can know what your looking at.
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Yes, you're right, they aren'tSinerjee wrote: ↑Wed Jan 08, 2020 1:05 am From my reading on them they aren’t actually a go to mount so won’t need a hand controller.
The scopes themselves (there are 4, 2 refractor and 2 refractor) are the same as there respectively sized astromaster scope. However it has the Star sense mount attached which very basically will tel you what you are looking at. They all seemed to be on manual alt/az mounts. The smaller two on az2 and the larger two on az3.
I thought they looked good for a beginner so you can know what your looking at.
Kind of a cool idea, actually. It would give beginners a place to get started finding objects and learning about the objects they see in the eyepiece. Would help people learn the night sky a bit better than they might do with a
One could of course make a homegrown version for any telescope with a cell phone and a free planetarium
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Binoculars: Leica 8x32 Trinovids, circa 1997; Orion Megaview 20x80, Orion Paragon Plus mount.
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Cheers,
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[mention]SiouxCityGuy[/mention] Go to Google Play and type in Skeye in the search box and this is what you'll see. Cheers,Do you have an article and pictures?
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∞ AP Scopes: #1: TPO 6" f/9 RC #2: ES 102 f/7 APO #3: ES 80mm f/6 APO
∞ G&G Scopes: #1: Meade 102mm f/7.8 #2: Bresser 102mm f/4.5
∞ Guide Scopes: 70 & 80mm fracs -- The El Cheapo Bros.
∞ Mounts: iOptron CEM70AG, SW EQ6R, Celestron AVX, SLT & GT (Alt-Az), Meade DS2000
∞ Cameras: #1: ZWO ASI294MC Pro #2: 662MC #3: 120MC, Canon T3i, Orion SSAG, WYZE Cam3
∞ Binos: 10X50,11X70,15X70, 25X100 ∞ AP Gear: ZWO EAF and mini EFW and the Optolong L-eXteme filter
∞ EPs: ES 2": 21mm 100° & 30mm 82° Pentax XW: 7, 10, 14, & 20mm 70°
Searching the skies since 1966. "I never met a scope I didn't want to keep."
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