Telescope Owners?

[OfTheCross]

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How well do these work in the city with light pollution

 

[Elim Garak]

Crazy I was thinking about copping a telescope I’m out near the country so I see some stars but nothing compared to when it lived in Maine for a few years when I was younger. That was back in the late 80’s and I promise there seemed like a billion stars were in the sky

I'm getting some research in now. One thing I saw which was interesting is apparently the best way to focus telescopes is the vision test. Get a vision chart put it down a long corridor and focus it that way. I'm finding out finder scopes are very important also.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

What do stars really look like zoomed in? Does it really look like we're "under water"?

Stars don't look like anything zoomed in, there's too much refraction (light scattered from the space dust across the light years between here and there) so even if you have a telescope it's still just a twinkling light and the only difference is the brightness and color. However, you'll see a lot more stars with a telescope than you would notice with the naked eye.

General rule of thumb I think is that anything that twinkles (stars) is not going to have any real detail, but anything that shines steadily (moon, planets, comets) you could potentially see more detail with a strong telescope.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Crazy I was thinking about copping a telescope I’m out near the country so I see some stars but nothing compared to when it lived in Maine for a few years when I was younger. That was back in the late 80’s and I promise there seemed like a billion stars were in the sky

Man, I've gone to middle-of-nowhere spots in Utah (Grand Staircase / Escalante) and in eastern California (Owens Valley / Inyo Mountains) and you'd swear it wasn't even the same sky we live under the rest of the time.

 

[Pseudonym]

How well do these work in the city with light pollution

Light pollution will distort the view slightly but that’s it, more hazy than out in the country where it’s pitch black

 

[BigBlackSea]

If you want to mess with telescopes you gotta get a Dobsonian, those old school telescopes on tripods they used to sell at J.C. Penny for $130 don't give you a real picture of what stuff looks like. You gotta drop like $400 or get a used one, they're usually like 35-40lbs. and just set on the ground

Bumping the thread. I have an 8 inch I've been using for the past few months. When I scrape together a few more coins, I'll probably look into a refractor for DSO photography.

 

[MasterThought]

Yo is it true that you can bring back in boats that supposedly goes over the physical curve of the earth with a powerful enough telescope?

@SPACE IS FAKE

 

[JerkPork]

I have an 8 inch dob. My eye prices are 25mm, one that zooms between 8mm and 21mm and a 2x Barlow.

Hooked up my phone with a mount and got some decent pics of the full moon, Jupiter and Saturn.

 

[BigBlackSea]

I have an 8 inch dob. My eye prices are 25mm, one that zooms between 8mm and 21mm and a 2x Barlow.

Hooked up my phone with a mount and got some decent pics of the full moon, Jupiter and Saturn.

My eyepieces are 6mm, 9mm, 12, 25, and 40mm.

Once I finally got used to collimating and aligning the Telrad and Finderscope, it was

I just gotta out my balance before my next star party.

 

[SPACE IS FAKE]

Yo is it true that you can bring back in boats that supposedly goes over the physical curve of the earth with a powerful enough telescope?

@SPACE IS FAKE

idk nathing bout telescopes sorry champ lol