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The Astronomy Thread
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Palum
what Suineg set it to
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Something tells me it's likely a prop as opposed to the capsule, but clown world etc.
This is apparently real but from two years ago.
Boeing Starliner’s Capsule’s Window Falls Off Before Being Mounted Atop ULA Atlas Rocket in Launch Pad [WATCH]
Boeing hauled a repaired Starliner crew capsule with a shattered window to United Launch Alliance's beachside rocket hangar. Continue reading to know what happened next.
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Borzak
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Okay, you've convinced me to pickup one of these seestars. How dark are your skies where you have it setup?
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Borzak
yes I have a ZWO Seestar S50. Pic below is my current setup. Tripod is from my camera with a 1/4-3/8 adapter and a fine adjusting head on top under the telescope. I use my phone , hence the holder.
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I'm in very rural NV under bortle 4 skies. I stack and process the pics myself but straight off the telescope is not bad either. - 1
Borzak
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Thanks. I've been thinking about picking one up to use while I wait on my observatory which is kind of hold now for a variety of reasons.
I did see the Celestron Origin is being delivered this week after waiting on them to finish the app. I'm not sold on that either. It's not the cost but for that price it would have to have more time on it and some of the early adopter bugs worked out. The 6" Rasa has appeal but they did some goofy things to tie it all together. We shall see. The 8" Rasa had issues on release and I think they are the 2nd or 3rd release version of them now.
I'm a Bortle 2/3 merge. I used to live on the Chapparosa ranch for a while which is where I really got into astronomy. A lot of laying on the ground with binos if I didn't want to bring out a scope. Ranch the size of D.C. and the drought year there was about 50 people living on it.
I did see the Celestron Origin is being delivered this week after waiting on them to finish the app. I'm not sold on that either. It's not the cost but for that price it would have to have more time on it and some of the early adopter bugs worked out. The 6" Rasa has appeal but they did some goofy things to tie it all together. We shall see. The 8" Rasa had issues on release and I think they are the 2nd or 3rd release version of them now.
I'm a Bortle 2/3 merge. I used to live on the Chapparosa ranch for a while which is where I really got into astronomy. A lot of laying on the ground with binos if I didn't want to bring out a scope. Ranch the size of D.C. and the drought year there was about 50 people living on it.
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I had to sic the BBB & CA attorney general on Celestron over an 8" telescope I bought 5-6 years ago over getting the run around and the damn thing just not working. They will never get another dollar from me. Also 4K for that origin is crazy. Seestar is around $500 all in and it comes with a (short) tripod and a solar filter.
On the topic of skies I keep meaning to take this to Death Valley and see what I could pick on on Dante's view. It's usually way too windy though. Here as well, this is the first time in a few weeks the night time wind wasn't nuts.
On the topic of skies I keep meaning to take this to Death Valley and see what I could pick on on Dante's view. It's usually way too windy though. Here as well, this is the first time in a few weeks the night time wind wasn't nuts.
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So this Seestar...it obviously is capable of getting some really nice shots. My question is, are you just looking at your phone the whole time? If so that seems kind of disconnected from what I like about amateur astronomy which is looking at something impossibly far away with my own eye. I feel like I might not get that same feeling of wonderment from processing pics that I do squinting into a telescope and finding Saturn or counting how moons of Jupiter I can find. On the other hand I really want to start hunting galaxies and nebulae.
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Yes, interaction with the scope is entirely through your phone or PC.
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The seestar has no eyepiece, the lens is connected via wifi that the telescope generates. It does all stacking in the app. You can put the telescope in 'station' mode and view it via anything (PC, projector, your wifi enabled fridge) if you wish. No you don't sit around it all night fighting off bugs/heat/cold/etc. For me that is a BIG bonus. Old telescope (12" Meade) by the time I got it set up, calibrated, and figuring out what I want to look at my back was killing me and I needed to go back inside.
I have not tried planets yet but I've already read that this doesn't do them very well. I do plan to when they are in the night sky for a big longer here (should be soon). I'll post whatever I find either here or in 'Your Own Photography' even if it's crap. For $500 this is a no brainer. I was planning on getting another scope but don't see the need now.
I have not tried planets yet but I've already read that this doesn't do them very well. I do plan to when they are in the night sky for a big longer here (should be soon). I'll post whatever I find either here or in 'Your Own Photography' even if it's crap. For $500 this is a no brainer. I was planning on getting another scope but don't see the need now.
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meStevo
I think your wife's a bigfoot gus.
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Yeah, my inability to collimate my Orion 10" light bucket is why it's been in the box for several years at this point. I need to just throw it on the FB Marketplace for a few hundred dollars and be done with it.
Something like a Seestar seems amazing, but I get the whole seeing with your own eye thing. Certainly a compromise in order to do what you want. Though living IN Vegas, my opportunities are limited without at least a short drive anyways, so blah.
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Borzak
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Yeah they need another version with a longer focul length for planetary/lunary photography.
For $500 it's a one stop simple to use and set up package. Now compare that and the price on a dedicated astrophotography rig, mount $1,000 minimum but normally much more, scope, $500 and up and lots of time way up, camera (real money on a color one that's cooled) a laptop to run the camera and mount, umpteen adapters and cabling, power supply, and then all the software time stacking and editing to get it presentable. It adds up to a lot and a lot quickly. Guide scope and camera for it, cabling and software to tie it together. It gets very complicated quickly. At least ZWO has most of its stuff in one environment like their mounts and the ASIAIR which is kind like getting into the apple environment, at least it's tied together reducing one thing.
I think all the US based telescope companies are kind of shady or least partially. 15 years ago I spoke to the CEO of Orion telecope and he wanted to give me X amount of free shit to take down photos from cloudynights and my experience with some of their geart and the response they had to it before the CEO got involved. I did not take it down but I'm sure a lot of people would. I haven't dealt with them since then but they got involved in a number of lawsuits with Meade and apparently now they are having pretty tough times. Oh well.
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