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Thanks so much dude, glad you enjoyed it👊🏼👊🏼

I looked into it last night, looks like a tough shot! I can probably pull it off at a dark sky site, not sure if I can do it broadband with my bortle 7 skies sadly..

@@astrotan dude I’m in a bortle 7 and it’s actually been going good so far! With the right processing techniques my 6h of broadband turned out well. Im getting more this week as it still wasn’t as much as I would have hoped for. The Ha adds a lot of signal to the broadband even though the broadband is rough.

Thank you man! We had a blast👊🏼

People have said we look similar 😂 thanks dude!

I get all my music from epidemic sound! The first song is called On My Way by Aiyo. Glad you enjoyed the video!

Thanks dude!👊🏼

I appreciate that dude! We’re slowly climbing 📈

Totally! Just know that it’s pretty expensive!

Thank you dude! I appreciate it! And yes, for some odd reason the loaner one did not come with the rotator, which was strange, but I could’ve rotated the entire telescope to rotate it, can’t believe I didn’t think of that! I’ve seen the rotator online, it looks great!

The rotator on my SV550 is not the SV210 with the calibration marks on it, that is a separate purchase if you need the calibration scale. It is the same one as my old (and your) SV503 with the 3 recessed brass screws and a knob for locking it in position. Still my best purchase ever with great results despite the bortle 6 in metro Perth, Western Australia.

484mm at 80mm

I appreciate that! I’m glad you enjoyed the video🎉

Sure is! It has an IMX 294 sensor, but it doesn’t bother me because I made a dark library a while back

I am not from Michigan, that’s a sticker from when I went to headlands this summer!

Thanks for the tips dude, greatly appreciated, but I do have a couple things: in terms of me not showing my face, during the duration of the middle of the video I do not show my face because the focus is on the telescope and not my face. I’m still clearly heard, and the focus should be shifted on the product that I’m reviewing. In terms of when I’m inside, I do agree, the angles at which I have things are not great, my camera lens is sadly too big with my crop sensor camera to get a full view along with my desk being too small to fit the camera on there, will have to experiment with some different angles :)

@@astrotan Yes, I was suggesting less face, more telescope :-) Few people can pull off the idiot look-at-me grin of Smarter Every Day.

I would gladly say Svbony has made a very solid telescope! I’ve used and seen other scopes potential on the field before but haven’t used my own gear for them, and most people who’ve had Svbony’s triplet APO design would say it fits very well in the same field and category.

@@astrotan Really? I will not pay even $1 for it.

I'd buy that for a dollar. Then chuck it in the proper bin ;)

@@anata5127don’t hate on svbony til you have your own pics with it 🤷‍♂️ don’t set your standards high without some good processing

@@Chiclets1I don’t see anyone else taking these pictures interested to see yours😅

Glad you enjoyed it dude!

Now that I’m thinking about it, wow that’s a great idea. I never thought of it like that😅thank you for the tip!

Sure, you can do that, but a dedicated rotator with indexing does make multi night mosaic shots easier and more likely to be able to be stacked successfully in software.

Dah!

It’s a mix of both. To our eyes, we can’t see much, just faint glows of everything. But to cameras, they can see everything. The color in here is in fact real but I did saturate the color to make it pop more

It’s no worries man! And yes, for astrophotography, you’ll need a tracking mount. The sad thing about it is that there’s no way of getting out of “cheap” astrophotography mounts, they’re all pretty pricey but nothing would be possible without them. A good starter mount that is amazing is the skywatcher eqm-35 pro, it’s just under $800 I believe! A good thing to note is that you need to make sure you know how much your setup will weigh on top so you can decide what tripod to use that’ll fit its weight capacity. My setup on top of my mount is roughly 17 pounds which is perfect for my GEM28 as it holds 28lbs. I also use the 2’ UV/IR Cut filter, it’s much more accessible and you can use it for a ton of changes as you excel in your astrophotography journey, just more convenient :) i hope this helps! Let me know if you have any other questions or if you need any advice on a beginner setup, I have some things in mind :) clear skies!

@@astrotan so ended up going with the SV503 ED 80mm, I ordered the SV193 2 inch .08X field flattener, the SV198mini 50mm finder scope, the UHC filter, UV/IR filter, a lens heater, the SV211 dovetail base, and i actually just ordered the Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer GTI mount kit. I dont know if this was a mistake but i ordered the 1.25 inch lenses rather than the 2 inch lenses, are those compatible with the field flattener or did i make a mistake? Also bought a few extra things for just planetary/moon observing but ill keep it focused on astrophotography for now. What do you think of this setup, any issues with it? Thanks for your help man, really appreciate it!

@@AdotLarcenyI think it’s a great setup, it will get you very far! There’s a couple minor concerts though: I’m not sure what the total weight of your setup on top of the GTI will be, but it holds 11lbs total on top of it, but you can probably push it a little more and it should be fine. In terms of the field flattener and lens topic, I’ve never used 1.25 lenses with the field flattener, but if you’re doing just visual with the lenses you won’t need the field flattener anyway, that’s really for the astrophotography part so you should be all good! Can’t wait to see what you do!

Awesome stuff dude! 🤝

Thank you, glad you enjoyed 🤝

I’m planning on going into business, and where I’m looking at going to college they have a big astronomy program!

It looks like a little brain in outer space!

Thanks dude glad you like it🙏

To put it simply, time. It took me about 3 years to achieve my current setup and knowledge.