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This was very helpful and well explained. Thank you

Hi, I am writing this after watching a video you did a year ago. And since I would like a reply, I found your most recent video. I really started looking at the starts every night after I went out to Big Bear. I have not had good luck at finding myself a telescope. I had become so annoyed with the telescope that I bought a pair of stargazing binoculars. But I kept shaking. So then I bought one of those things you put them on, that didn't work out either. The question I have with the 8SE telescope is if I see something, will I be able to move it? Or does it just move on its own only? I have been seeing rainbow flashing, almost looking ORBs, but I can only see them with my bare eyes and the binoculars. Have you seen these things that change color? It seems that they do stay in the same place, like a star, but I had never seen a star turn so many colors. Could it be the gas in the sky that's doing it? I thought if I bought a more expensive pair of binoculars, i would be able to see these "stars?" Better, but they are so heavy, so I then bought a tripod and I became so annoyed! I have no clue how far these lights are and would be amazed to see them up close. So basically, if it is not a star, i would not be able to move the Nexstar 8SE? So that I could see these things that are fascinating me? Do you have any suggestions? Thank you

I’ve been looking at a celestron crc 11 which seems pretty cool idk this person is selling it on the cheaper end and it’s tempting me to

Please stop calling wide angle images of the night sky or the milky way "astrophotography." They're not. Those are "nightscape" photography. COMPLETELY DIFFERENT ANIMAL. Don't take that the wrong way. Nightscapes are beautiful. But you wouldn't say a wide angle image of a crowd of people in the street is a portrait. That's street photography.

I had a 4" telescope years ago and I remember the feeling I had seeing Saturn with my own eyes the first time. Now that I'm older and have a little more money, I'm looking at the Celestron 8SE to start me out again and I want to be able to mount my Canon R8 to it. I have no doubt I'll be deep down in that rabbit hole in a few years time.

Excellent video on using a tribahtanov mask. I have watched a couple of others which were no where near as good as this. Great job

I built a telescope and installed ZWO EAF the other night. I was in focusing hell for a while like you. I set my step size to 300, backlash to 150, and moved my focus to the center of its travel. I let ASI auto backlash hash it out. Finally got a good reverse parabola curve. Then set my values to 100 step, 50 backlash, got a better curve and sharp stars. Moved step side to 50 but focus did not improve appreciably so I set it back to 100. Write down your focused position, and visual telescope focus scale values for future use.

Theistic evolutionist propaganda. Wolf in sheep's clothing.

Great Video. The measurement of measuring backlash for the system and not just between the motor and the scope focus dial gave me a very different backlash result. Living in an area where clear skies seem to be the exception rather than the norm I did this slightly differently to how Mr Wilson describes, I did this during the day using a Dial test indicator (DTI) on the end of the camera to measure the point at which it moves, saved doing this during a precious dark clear sky.... There does seem to be some damping/delay/elastic in the system at the movement which is only a thou or two occurs a fraction after the focuser has been moved. Set up pictured here th-cam.com/users/postUgkxXHsUpV6FKvbiaYJxJ9eBLDYTFMuG774Z

Outstanding step by step tutorial for a beginner, like me! Thanks! Love your channel and your way of explaining things in simple terms.

that sneaky girl haha

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Awesome video. I put our hooks up after we built our house nearly 35 years ago. Still use them.

Really enjoyed your video on the subject. I just recently bought the Nexstar 4SE, for backyard viewing here in Australia ( In the country, so no light pollution), then a Saxon 6.5mm eyepiece and now a Celestron X-Cel 2x Barlow lens. A very easy telescope to set up and use, also being able to see the planets and stars is just amazing. No photo's as yet though...

I dont think it was mentioned in the video, but I believ the triangular points of the mask should be lined up with the screws for proper collimation. Is this correct, or does their position relative to the screws not matter? I also need to snip the perimeter of my mask to accommodate the dew hester ring cables, and it could have implications for the collimation process itself, so I wanted to check.

Nice Video, i have a hard time alligning my finder scope with the telescope , my brain just have har time adjusting to reversal of the image i see in the finder scope and the movement of the it . any chance you have a way you can be training this ? really annoying spenting this longt time to get it allaignment to find out i cant really do it , its getting to a point when im actualy considder giving up on this , i love space , i want to take photos but i was told to get a telescope and learn it all from the ground up.

This is useful for taking timelapse. Might be able to do timelapse with ramping exposure (ie, day to night or night to day).

Culmination means a final climactic stage. Collimation is the act of aligning a telescope's optics

I’m going to do this to my 8” evolution and use it on an EQ mount instead and add Hyperstar.

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Another definitive pause in the argument. I applaud the effort. But this is like Tolkien's appendices trying to justify the story told before it, while not quite filling the gaps, it satisfies curiosity with overstimulated reactionary 'evidence'. Nothing truer has ever come from prophecy than that which has happened before. ✌️

The video was comprehensive and well thought out, but I really wanted to see the image you got after all that setup to just be left in the cold over it 😢

SIR...WHAT PROGRAM ARE YOU USING WITH THE RASA

IS THERE A NUMBER FOR THIS STAR.......HOW INTERESTING.....I'LL GIVE IT A GO WHEN THE SKY CLEARS IN MY AREA

Absolutely the best video showing collimation with a tri-bahtinov mask. Thank you!

It's unfortunate that we should have to always be on guard for violante action by disturbed individuals......excellent video but lets get back to astronomy

Hahhaha ....Mr Wilson I'll join you in this rabbit hole theory.... A lot of time and in some cases financial expense to become proficient at the chosen task....enjoyed your video and will continue to watch and struggle with you on this astrophotography journey....I to am a beginner so lets go slow and learn together

Thank you for explaining the differences to us like we are 5 years old. As sarcastic as that may sound, it's exactly what I needed.....as you mentioned, there are far too many variations to consider which makes me feel less confident that im buying the right telescope for my needs. Although I'm still just as uncertain as I was before I watched your video, you have helped me to narrow the choices down to only a few rather than countless.

Minutes 5-7 of this video made me forget I was looking for reviews on a specific telescope I'm probably going to buy, and has me instantly once again fascinated with the idea of stargazing. I got a Celestron lt 114 a few years ago for Christmas and now am looking to upgrade, but the way you describe the fact that its even so rare we can see what we see is so cool. Its an amazing hobby regardless of the equipment you have available, as long as the sky is clear, there is a story to be see.

I’m about to trade my 8se for a celestron cgem 11 to be able to further my astrophotography journey. Right now I’m running a svbony 90mm with Zwo eco system. My current mount is a skywatcher eqm-35 pro that I’m not happy with and only had it for one month. I wish I could afford the am5.

SUPER AWESOME MATE! YOUR VIDEO PRESENTATION IS EXCEPTIONALLY WELL ARTICULATED. AS A NEW ASTRO ENTHUSIAST I LOVED YOUR SIMPLICITY AND WONDERFUL EXPLANATIONS. THANKS FOR THE INFORMATION BUDDY! SENDING YOU BLESSINGS FROM NEWCASTLE IN AUSTRALIA, ANNIKA 🔮🔭🌎🍹💖✨

I'm experiencing the same thing, but I'm currently reworking my current mount's components into an EQ mount

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What my experience regarding the SCT mirror cleaning, yes there are mirror coating reflections even after distill water cleaning. For the best sparkling effect I rather use the Lense cleaning liquid (Canon lense cleaner) and feathers touch with fluffy microfiber clothes for polish. Hence its works on refractors as well. Clear skies.

A few comments. 1) Leveling the tripod precisely won't have any effect on guiding (I noticed that others have left the same comment). When you adjust the mount to point at the celestial pole you're accounting for an unlevel tripod. You just want the tripod level enough that it doesn't get unbalanced. 2) It's better to have your scope slightly out of perfect balance. When it's perfectly balanced the scope will more easily tip forward and backward loading and unloading the gears and you'll see worse gear lash. It works better to keep the gears loaded in the same direction. 3) The shape of your guide stars does matter. You want nice symmetric stars and a sharp focus, that way the guiding SW will see the star moving away from the guide spot and discern the direction the best. You can get the best focus by switching the cameras making your guide scope the main camera then use the focus tools in your SW to optimize the focus. There's something seriously wrong with your guide scope producing such horribly ugly stars - even if only when the scope is warm. It's probably badly collimated. 4) Guiding using multiple stars will usually work better than single star guiding in most circumstances. It helps to avoid chasing the seeing - the mount won't correct unless it sees several stars moving in the same direction. 5) Taking too frequent guiding images is as bad as taking images too slow. You don't want to chase the seeing, you just want to adjust the mount to precisely match the rotation of the stars. The best way to see if you are taking images too slow or too fast (or if you have the agressiveness set wrong) is to look at the stars in your main scope's images. The FWHM of the stars is the best indicator of guiding (you can watch this measure image by image with one click on the ASIAIR). 6) Agressiveness can also be tuned by examining the roundness of the stars in your final image. It took me several nights to get perfectly round stars by doing this - even starting with the method you showed to get the agressiveness close.

Comilated ?

Great video. Sub'd

Very useful. Thank you!

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I am a Christian (new born child of Jesus Christ), but now after listening to this documentary I got a new perspective the give to unbelievers about the Bible. Thanks a lot 🙏🙏

I' m a Christian (new born child of Jesus), but now after listening to this documentary I can give unbelievers a new perspective of the Bible. Thanks a lot 🙏🙏

How do you know your third party level is accurate? I've bouht two which aren't.

Great Content! Thanks for putting in the work and sharing.

Great video. Very informative. Looks like I´ll be getting a new expensive hobby

One more important thing about cable management, when you run your cables from the ota down the mount, run them as close to the axis of rotation as possible without snapping. It will need less force and momentum to fight against. The cables will pull with less force, than if they would go down from the camera ending point of telescope.

Those out of shape stars is the coma. Standard c8 doesn't correct for coma, that is why celestron recommend to focus on the stars that are between the centre and the edge of the view. I personally got rid of c8 and got Edge 8HD instead. If you want to keep yours, Starizona makes coma correctors that actually work. All others are just field flatteners, they don't correct for coma.

I completely disagree with you on the beginner telescope. Suggesting People the Nexstar telescopes is kinda meh. First of all even the 4 inch is almost 1000$ and you will only see planets. You also have to be able to align it. Beginners should get an 8 inch dobson which has a decent 8x50 finder and also an ultra wide eye piece to find objects easier. We have apps nowadays with which you can quite easily find where what is.

Collimation 😊

Thanks you for the good tops Il will try them in m'y next session Christian

It amazes me how they can't get, something as simple as a bubble level, to work on a 2k mount...