Telescopogrfy
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Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
A motorised equatorial mount is very handy, nay essential, for long exposure shots.
Grant Fondo
Guru
- Location
- Cheshire
I just tilt the telescope at 23 degrees and hey presto, the night sky doesn't move.
cisamcgu
Legendary Member
- Location
- Merseyside-ish
and point it north...
wheresthetorch
Dreaming of Celeste
- Location
- West Sussex
I suspect that is the focal length rather than the aperture!
Well yes
Its a mirror not a lens .
cisamcgu
Legendary Member
- Location
- Merseyside-ish
A reflecting telescope with have an aperture - 114mm, 130mm, 150mm and 200mm being common.
I would suspect 114mm for a 900mm releflector - good enough to see the bands on Jupiter and its moons, as well as Saturn's rings - don't expect Hubble-like performance, and it will be pretty much black and white. Don't try to rack up the magnification too much , it will just make it more blurry in the end (I believe you said you had a variable eyepiece?).
It will be much harder to see any deep sky objects, especially in a light polluted region.
Can you show a picture of it, or its name ? - perhaps similar to this https://www.maplin.co.uk/national-g...MIu7jqxu7X5AIVjLTtCh1suQ-FEAQYAyABEgKLa_D_BwE?
If it has an AZ mount, rather than an EQ one (basically, does it have a counter weight or not), then you cannot easily track things as they move as the Earth turns, but it is simple to keep a planet in the view, normally
I would suspect 114mm for a 900mm releflector - good enough to see the bands on Jupiter and its moons, as well as Saturn's rings - don't expect Hubble-like performance, and it will be pretty much black and white. Don't try to rack up the magnification too much , it will just make it more blurry in the end (I believe you said you had a variable eyepiece?).
It will be much harder to see any deep sky objects, especially in a light polluted region.
Can you show a picture of it, or its name ? - perhaps similar to this https://www.maplin.co.uk/national-g...MIu7jqxu7X5AIVjLTtCh1suQ-FEAQYAyABEgKLa_D_BwE?
If it has an AZ mount, rather than an EQ one (basically, does it have a counter weight or not), then you cannot easily track things as they move as the Earth turns, but it is simple to keep a planet in the view, normally
Ahhhhh 114 then . Its a Taco 302012 and yes has a counter weight . the eye piece i have was bought for my camera but it wasnt what i thought and is for a microscope . I only paid a few £ for it on ebay but it does fit over the eye piece of the telescope . Who knows if it will work or not but it will be interesting to find out .
classic33
Leg End Member
Worth a look later this year?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2019_Q4_(Borisov)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2019_Q4_(Borisov)