I have not seen any for sale but I machined a couple of adapters that allowed me to use standard 5mw green laser pointers and when combined with some quality...
Hello Chris: I have never seen a green laser collimator , I bet that would cool, but the Mw would have to be very low so It wouldn't damage your eyes while...
... I would strongly recommend against using a "green" laser for collimating any telescope. The power output is too high and you are risking an inevitable...
The Orion Atlas/EQ-6 would be an economical GOTO choice. The Losmandy G-11 with the Gemini GOTO system would be the more expensive choice. -Christopher...
Thanks, I was thinking I may need to spend this type of money to get a quality mount. A friend in the club has a Skywatcher 6 (?) mount, I think its in the...
I should have clarified that I use my green laser pointer with a concentric target hologram projection adapter from LaserMax, Inc. Not nearly as dangerous as a...
hey group i wonder if any one ever started observing the sun? and are those solar filters available in the market all of good quality? which one is best for...
I was checking the accessories that connects the DSLR to a telescope and found the T-Ring and T-Adapter, if this is connects the camera to the telescope...
You may or may not have enough back focus. You may have to either mover the primary mirror up the tube an inch or two or you might have to use a Barlow,...
The Badder company sells some real good quality sheets of Solar filter material, you make your own filter to fit your scope. That is for seeing sun Spots only....
Hello Chris : Back about 6 years when I ordered my 14" Tscope I also odered a 2" Holographic Laser collimator, It's a work of art, and I am still using the...
Since you are pointing it into the eyepiece of the telescope, I would focus the scope first and if you are taking pics of the moon or planets, try autofocus....
hello group back to the subject of collimation. I have obtained a laser collimator now (HOTECH SCA LASER COLLIMATOR)previously i made a center mark on the...
thank you very much, it cant be clean then this, i was thinking of complicated ways to do it, while it's easier then i thought, ... From: Christopher...
My Point and shoot camera does not have auto -focus on it, But my old VCR cam recorder does. I will try out your suggestions and get back to you! Thank-you...
Thinking of truck axles in Texereau and pondering alternatives while sitting at a desk during lunch time yesterday inspired me to stop by the trash on the way...
Very cool looking Frank! The Scope chair looks good! Just the other day i was looking at the extra tripod stand I have at home and I had an extra dob laying...
Thanks, Oscar. I chose the chair because I need to sit when I observe, so I could not use one of the tripods I have handy, like the one on this page which I...
I believe that ozone is effectively transparent. The Moon is mostly gray because that is the color of the rock and dust there. The yellow color when it is...
The Ozone layer is a good absorber of UV not of visible light. The ozone layer is essentially transparent to visible light so, the color of objects in the sky...
Hello everyone I am new to this group so this is my first post. I would like to know what the group members think of Parallax Newtonian telescopes they seem to...
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