I am a newbie who does not want to spend a fortune on eyepieces. I have a 8" dob. What would be a worth while investment? The Meade 4000 eyepiece/filter set...
... I generally recommend against those sets of Plössl eyepieces and filters in a box, whether made by Meade, Celestron, or whoever. I think you do far...
I get Orion "Sky Times" as an email, I suppose I got the subscription via a purchase from Orion. Does anyone have the direct url to those PDFs? I noticed that...
... There used to be a link to the Orion Sky Times on Orion's web page, but it seems to have disappeared in their last reworking of the web site. The Starry...
Yes, Geoff offers excellent advice. Almost everyone I observe with, and myself, end up doing 95% of our observing with just 2 or 3 eyepieces. I agree with...
I recently replaced the focuser on a low priced 102mm refractor which had previously exhibited very little false color, and upon testing the improved focuser...
My Baader 8-24 zoom is my most used eyepiece it will serve you much better than a starter set of cheap plossls. A quality Plossl is still worth owning I have a...
During daylight trees will show purplish bluish outlines around branches and leaves. You could created some artificial stopping down devices (I made some from...
Thanks, Terry, I was actually looking for a way to tell if my scopes are actually using the full aperture of the objective. I stumbled on a test while surfing...
I had rotator cuff surgery a month or so ago. Since this is the SoCal "rainy season" I really did not miss too much observing, but the rehabilitation of the...
As of today, the respondents indicate that of the scopes we use 31% are a Newt of some kind, 24% something Cat-like, while 42% are Refractors of varying sizes...
... My "other" is an Orion Argonaut 6" Maksutov-Newtonian, one of the two finest telescopes I own. Geoff -- Geoff Gaherty Foxmead Observatory Coldwater,...
It seems I remember back the 1980's, refractors were basically considered planetary scopes and reflectors were jused more for deep space observing. Does this...
... That's a pretty fair assessment of the advice given to beginners back then, and still to be found far too often today. What's changed is that the general...
I may be new to this, but I am astounded by some of the "advice" handed out to beginners like me. I followed a recent thread on a yahoo group for a particular...
... The often heard advice is that "refractors are the best for planetary observing." This was sort of true back around 1960 when the two most popular...
... Perhaps because refractors, especially apos, cost so much more than Newtonians or SCTs? ... Carl has never made a mirror larger than 24"; he doesn't have...
John: 'took a look at the webpage; and as for what Orion thinks about Celestron's "new" telescope being a ripoff of the StarBlast telescope, well, two words...
Perhaps built in the same Chinese factory? At 3" and $50, not really competition. Dollar for dollar, probably better than most cheap 50-60mm refractors,...
Wayne G: Out of curiosity Wayne, may I ask type of 102mm Refractor you personally use yourself? Or possibly you do not own a 102MM Refractor. Donnie Garrett ...
Geoff Every time this scope gets mentioned I am reminded that this is one I let get away twice. First time was when I chose to go with the 102mm f/6.5 Vixen...
Refractor owners tend to get a bit nutzy about pushing the limits power wise. One night many years ago I tried to see just how far I could push my 4" APO on...
I recently acquired an old Towa refractor with a .965 focuser. It came with a cheap hybrid diagonal, so I normally use it with 1.25 EPs. But last night I...
I tried to use a couple of high power eyepieces on Saturn last night, and they seem to have oil droplets from my eyelashes on the eye lens. What is the best...
... Try using a LensPen, available in most camera and telescope stores. Be sure to blow/brush away any dust particles first. Geoff -- Geoff Gaherty Foxmead...
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