You'll probably return it if you're main use is astronomical. See post #15.
Telescope help - Astro and Others come in!
- Thread starter JeffKeryk
- Start date
yes, Questar telescopes. they are legendary maksutov cassegrain design. they also make the questar model 7. it is very expensive. but has incredible optics. close to 15 000 dollars only for the optical tube.
https://www.astronomics.com/questar...segrain-broadband-coatings-quartz-mirror.html
YIKES!
That's silly expensive for a 7" reflector telescope.
I know that the products from Telescope dot com might be in the budget.
A used Meade ETX125 also might be of interest.
2 nights ago when I came home from work, I noticed a big celestial body due south. It was a moonless and cloudless night, and this was the biggest wthing in the sky. So I got my binoculars out (7x50) and had a good look despite it being not far from freezing cold. I live in a well lit area, that's not helping things. It's also hard to keep the binoculars still.
But I do believe it was Saturn, the thing looked elliptical rather than round. And there was a moon near it, I,d say about 4 times the diameter of saturn and rings away from it, in the 4 o'clock position. The binoculars were too bright to clearly see it all, it was like looking into a headlight. On the other hand I could read the time on an unlit clock tower, while I could barely see the tower's shape in the distance with the naked eye. I guess that's what it was made for.
Turned left 90 degrees and noticed something else a bit bigger than the rest, this shimmered a bit and wasn't white coloured, rather red or purple. Another planet?
it's amazing how much more stars appear through the binoculars, I could barely see ursa minor between alledged saturn and the other planet, but through the binoculars it was clear and I could see about a hundred other stars in that same field of view.
But I do believe it was Saturn, the thing looked elliptical rather than round. And there was a moon near it, I,d say about 4 times the diameter of saturn and rings away from it, in the 4 o'clock position. The binoculars were too bright to clearly see it all, it was like looking into a headlight. On the other hand I could read the time on an unlit clock tower, while I could barely see the tower's shape in the distance with the naked eye. I guess that's what it was made for.
Turned left 90 degrees and noticed something else a bit bigger than the rest, this shimmered a bit and wasn't white coloured, rather red or purple. Another planet?
it's amazing how much more stars appear through the binoculars, I could barely see ursa minor between alledged saturn and the other planet, but through the binoculars it was clear and I could see about a hundred other stars in that same field of view.
Similar threads
