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Originally Posted by AvsJerk
That looks like an awesome scope pylon. I've always wanted to get into the astronomy hobby, but figured after investing all that money into a telescope the novelty would wear off rather quick. How would that scope be for peeking through windows across a valley?  jk |
Actually it works quite well for terrestrial stuff, only problem is everything is mirrored backwards. You can get a correcting prism for it though. I pointed it down my street and a rock chip on the hood of a car filled the entire widest angle eyepice at about 300 metres LOL. After all the research I did, 8" aperture is the best balance of portability, and image quality, and deep sky stuff, like nebulae and Messier objects.
This is how Saturn captures using a $120 CCD imager which I purchased with the scope. If you can master SLR it is much better. This is pretty much what I saw as well, only a little smaller, my eye percieved it as about the size of a loonie.
