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very nice comparison. I think the ed100 doublet is fantastic scope. though I also loved the orion 120ST. despite being an achromat, it was a fun scope, fast at f/5, short and easily to grab and setup. but I had better views through the ed100 doublet of the luna. I have pondered a number of times abo...

for a star tracker like skywatcher star adventurer, I have used an anker 28600mha power bank. Found a usbA to mini usb (thats the port on star avdventurer, a usbc- power plug (one of asiair pro) and it worked fine for some 3-4 hours. very portable as well. I used the same for az-gti and asi air pro ...

Anyone has a tsflat2 field flattened to let go. I m looking for visual use and not for Astro photography. The ap field flatterers usually have 55mm back focus. I am not interested in thhose. I am trying to use tsflat2 and connect it straight to my diagonal. If you have one lying around, please let m...

Hi All i am not sure if its happening to all, but in last few months, I have received Private Messages from two individuals regarding my WTB ads asking me to get in contact with some other person (with their emails). One of these was sent by a member who had just one post and the most recent person ...

interesting.. I had a different experience. The ED100 f/9 doublet have such good views of jupiter/saturn and moon that I was tempted to upgrade to sw120ed. but I havent tried the 5mm bundled eyepiece. I use a 10mm UFF or celestron 8-24mm zoom most of the time and with them the views are excellent.

very interesting.. are these eyepieces as sharp as the ones designed for telescopes. I see a good number of posts using microscope objesctives in telescopes (with some 23.5mm to 1.25mm adapter), but a binocular eyepiece is definitely new for me.

Hi I just purchased a baader 2 inch diagonal and thefore have to let go these diagonals. 1. A generiic 2 inch 90 deg diagonal - I bought it from aliexpress around pandemic time. Its same as older svbony 2 inch diagonal which claims to be have a dielectric mirror (90% reflectivity). the mirror is cle...

I agree with frqaf_bfds, now most mount manufacturers provide a low altitude option. Ioptron has number of mounts that can be used at equator. Likewise most of the newer strain wave mounts like zwo also support low latitude ooerations

This is interesting. I used a standard raspberry li4 for stellarmate but always wished if it would have more power ports. This mini pc not only has USB ports but also has power out ports which is handy for building a portable rig.

Wow, that's a nice pic from orion 120st.its one of my best visual scopes but haven't tried astrophotography yet.