I have a Cupra Terramar PHEV, parked for a month now. Age is 16 months. Will I have issue with 12V battery? Does it need alternator to charge through ICE or the high voltage battery charges it periodically? The latter is at 65%.
Celestron evolution 8, Televue Panoptic 24mm and Morpheus 17.5mm
Honor Magic 6 Pro, no adapter (although i own one). Adjusted brightness on the full moon photo.
This feeling when your day is revolving around moon phase, moon altitude and azimuth, winds and cloud coverage, sunset time and whatever object is near the west and ofc which constellations rise 1-2 hrs after sunset.
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Which repeats itself for different seasons. Planning your session, leaving town and sleep at your parents in the village with Bortle 4 instead of town's 6. Keeping notes per target and sometimes per eyepiece. Getting new eyepieces forgetting the 2 plossls and revisiting the same objects. Learning how to actually see Veil nebula with OIII. Getting tired and can't resolve faint galaxies only to retry at the next available opportunity. Visiting a Harvard educated friend and professor at the University to collimate for the first time and test new eyepieces. Spending a considerable amount of money for serious equipment, asking people and the web. Dew shield making the difference after 2am for real with 88% external humidity. Vega's spectrum vs a reddish 2000K cold carbon star. Setting up a chair with adjustable height because correct body posture is more important than anything. Jupiter moons in a completely different position the next day. The M57 first wow; realizing that averted vision is game changer.
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2 months in, summer constellations in northern hemisphere.
Celestron evolution 8, Morpheus, Pentax and televue are my friends.
Panoptic 24, Morpheus 17.5 and Morpheus 12.5, Pentax 10mm, Explore Scientific 6.7mm and 3 filters, Astronomik UHC-E, Astronomik UHC and Omegon OIII pro
I guess this setup will survive for years, no? Covering almost all useful magnifications? Any redundancy or pieces that can be ommitted? Delos line was not available.
The car drives nicely, it is lightweight and doesn't fight with the driver. Seats are not super comfortable after 3hrs of driving. Sometimes 110hp don't seem much but torque is there. Loved the steering feeling and feedback. Full specs with driving assists.
I recently got a Celestron NexStar Evolution 8 as my first telescope. I’m an astrophysicist, so I know the theory/background astronomy, but I’m completely new to practical observing and eyepieces.
The scope came with the standard 40mm and 13mm Plössl eyepieces. The 40mm is fine, but I find the 13mm extremely uncomfortable to use. I feel like I have to press my eye into it and the viewing position is very unforgiving.
After reading and observing a bit, I realized that “comfort” in eyepieces is a huge thing: eye relief, eye lens size, blackout sensitivity, apparent field, etc. I had initially assumed eyepieces were mostly about focal length and optical sharpness.
So now I’m trying to understand what actually matters in practice for comfortable visual observing with an SCT.
A few questions for experienced observers:
- For a C8 SCT, what is realistically the minimum and maximum useful eyepiece focal length?
- Is there any reason to go 2" for mostly Moon/planets/globular clusters/double stars?
- If you had to choose only 3 premium eyepieces for a NexStar Evolution 8, which focal lengths would you pick?
- Which eyepiece lines are considered the most comfortable for long observing sessions? (Pentax XW? Delos? DeLite? Morpheus?)
- Is the difference in comfort between premium eyepieces and short focal length Plössls really as dramatic as people say?
At the moment I’m thinking something like:
- 24mm Panoptic
- 12.5mm Morpheus
- 10mm Pentax XW
Does that make sense for this telescope?
Would appreciate advice from experienced SCT owners.
Any DSOs with extended exposure under the above configuration? I am looking to get Evolution 8 now with its default base and i can add wedge in a year or so when i want to do astrophotography.
I've read the Beginner's guide, had a look at several websites as well. I am an astrophysicist btw, doing data science however. But i remember the basics.
So! Pretty much the title, I want a telescope that does visual naked eye well, not for astrophotography. (If I can put a smartphone adapter for a mobile phone instead of my eye, and I can make short exposures through my mobile phone I wouldn't say no but not a priority).
Less than 20 Kgr, it should not require much cleaning, the cost can reach 3000-4000 E. I (think that I) want it to be robotic. Most websites give me 8SE as the go to (sic) option but i am not sure just because i don't know how many alternatives exist.
Nothern hemisphere, Europe, i can have access to a very dark sky if i want to. Living in an urban environment , having a balcony but i also have a house and a huge garden in the countryside and i can be there in 1hr if i want to. I am there once every 2 weeks.
My targets are planets, moon, clusters and double stars. I think nebulae will be out of reach. What do you guys think? Is this amount of money realistic for a visual or is it too much? What i mean to say is that i can pay if my life becomes easier by getting one more feature.
Thanks in advance.