I subscribed to your channel and I’m in the market for a new telescope, my first, right now. I was really hoping you would have prices listed alongside your rigs. My budget is $2,000 - $2,500 and my goal is to see objects within the solar system first, but would absolutely love to see objects outside the solar system as well. I recognize I might not have the amount of money needed to do that. If I only could buy one telescope, what do you recommend? I really respect your opinion and eagerly await your reply.
@@ttrestle I actually do list prices in my TikTok video. But a telescope, mount, camera, guide scope, guide camera all adds up. You can start in this hobby for less than $1K with just a DSLR camera and Star Tracker: www.tiktok.com/@chucksastrophotography/video/6918741876300451078?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v2
I collect the stickers used on bananas. Only been at it for 8 months so my album only has 237 stickers in it. The total value of my album is about $7.84 - maybe even more depending on demand for bananas and cyclonic activity in the tropics
It will be interesting to point these rigs at the same time towards a single target and compare their image quality in the same environmental conditions.
Where I live I just need to drive 40 minutes out to a state forest and I’m into the blue!! 0 light pollution, and what you see with just your eyes is amazing.
This was so awesome. I'm building a camper trailer and was planning on making sure I had storage for my astrophotography gear. It's time to upgrade. Your primary rig looks perfect for my needs. Your big rig is out of my storage range when I'm off road down a fire trail in the middle of nowhere for a night. Thanks for the concise vid. Keep up the great work!
Thanks for your contribution to the astro community. Dylan and AstroBackyard led me here. I live 'up the road' from AstroBackyard! I had relatives that used to live in your neighborhood. Stay safe.
Wow, Chuck, very nice set of rigs! I think you’re covered for just about everything except having one of the Keck scopes in your backpack, LOL! Thanks for the fun tour, stay safe and well.
Jeebuz. And here I thought I’d gone overboard when I [just] purchased an Orion BT-100 with Monster Parallelogram mount. I need to show this video to my wife to prove I’ve only just begun. Nice rigs!!
Hey chuck, Wyoming Bob here. Loved the video on your rig's gave me food for thought. My sister lives in Elba so my thoughts and prayers are with you guys. Be safe and open skies
@@tankgrief1031 I have not tried the go to ability. Had it five days. And I haven't left feedback yet! But seller has 💯 % and deals with scopes and such. Is that a problem they have?
Hi Chuck, a year ago you had made a decision not to get the 8” RASA based on focal length you already had. I left you a comment about getting in the grove and getting the RASA. Well you did get one albeit a freebee but now it’s your number one rig, awesome Chuck. I knew you would enjoy using it once you got one, keep enjoying the RASA, great scope! ;-)
@@ChucksAstrophotography And through your results using the RASA Chuck..I got one myself and use it as a main imaging scope...words escape me how to describe the joy!
You make me jealous, Chuck. I bought a new 115mm apo last October, and since then I've had my 80mm sitting in the case, because I don't have an extra mount for it. Someday I'll turn that into a complete second rig like you.
Probably detroit ain't no joke, I wouldn't be letting everyone see those shinny teliscopes they might think about hopping a fence or two soon as u go take a piss .
Thanks. It's always fun to watch folks get excited talking about their cool stuff, especially when the stuff is actually way cool, as this is. The night sky in Dexter is a little darker I think from where you are and I always thought how fun it would be... but I did a little running total of the cost of youre driveway line up. You know, you could buy a boat for that kind of $$.
amazing set ups there Chuck! Lots of options for imaging! Bless Kane the Dog! lol Hey i been wanting you to include Kane in a vid for so long! So thanks for including the infamous Kane in the vid! I am always happy when i see a notification for a new vid on your channel! Great vid as always Chuck. Best Wishes from Liverpool, England! Wes ( Bortle 8 )
@@savtheastroguy Hi. I never seen this comment until now!?? 7 months later!?? lol. No sir, myself and Chuck are not neighbours, i reside in Liverpool, UK, he resides in Detroit, USA! Why you ask sir ? Thanks, Wes.
Thanks Chuck! We're on lockdown here and need a valid reason to leave the house. Can only gather in groups of no more than two people and can't have friends around. I'm already going crazy, because we were already locked down for a lot of the calendar year with constant air pollution from the bushfires. What a year.. Fires, smoke, destructive hailstorms, flooding and now a freakin pandemic.
1,000,000 and one... Nice setup! I was at my Insurance agent’s office last week and got my scopes and live streaming studio insured... doesn’t cost that much. Insured for replacement value... something you might think about doing. Rather than taking photos of my stuff for insurance... I’m going to do a-walk-about live stream of what I have... Something that I was going to do anyway. Nine setups that include the 8 and 11 inch RASA’s and white/ h-alpha setup. Saved your video and will include it in a up and coming live stream. Keep the dog in!!!
Hi Chuck, TH-cam recommended this video to me because I've been watching a lot of other astrophotography videos lately from AstroBackyard and Peter Zelinka. I'm just about 20 min north of Detroit and have been going out to Dark Sky parks like Lake Hudson and Port Crescent because I thought there's no way I could get decent astrophotos with all of the light pollution around here. I've just been using a Canon DSLR and an iOptron SkyGuider Pro and have started looking at stepping up to a refractor and guiding, but haven't yet. Very beginner. Anyway, just wanted to sell hello, neighbor.
It’s like when the groundhog comes out but Chuck’s telescopes come out. Oh holy hell, 6 more weeks of cloudy nights. Put em’ up Chuck, ya jinxing us lol. Btw, I was imaging finally after months of cloudy skies and enjoying imaging the Leo triplet and Makarvian Chain. I haven’t used the new asi533 since the comp broke so I’m back to old school Canon dslr imaging on my Apertura 60mm apo scope
Chuck's Astrophotography yea, since February, got some high tec virus that wiped out my startup, not even a wipe is fixing it. I can’t process any pics, just putting all my lights and calibration frames into a external HD till I save up and buy another one. Hopefully the air pro is coming soon so I can at least use the asi533 again.
Chuck I wanted to ask you if it is advisable to combine 30 second data sets with 5 minute data. Same lens and same framing. If it is ok, should I stack them separately and try to blend them in PS? What’s your experience with that?
@@ChucksAstrophotography If it ain't broken don't fix it! Cracks me up too! Every time you put together a video Chuck, I always look to see if the tape is still holding! Old wise astronomy said to me many years ago....telescopes are for looking through not looking at!
Glad to find your channel man I love your setups they're awesome! I am also 20 minutes from Detroit and about 20 minutes from the airport so who knows we probably live in the same area lol anyway love your videos dude glad I found this channel
I think the lower left corner of the video would have been a better choice for the text overlays. You placed them right on top of the telescope you were discussing while leaving a clear view of your vest. Nice vest.
The images that your are able to capture and process -- esp. given your urban, humid , often overcast location (I'm originally from NW Ohio) --- are quite remarkable. Nice work, Chuck!
My set contains on do-all refractor (William Optics FLT-98 with a cooled DSLR. Another set is for small wide field scopes (William Optics ZW66, William Optics Star-71) with a very light mount and a small DSLR to go. I am going to configure a rig with my F4 Newtonion.
Wow a lot of money! This hobby is fantastic but unfortunately it involves too much money for me, even for one setup. I mean you have to buy a telescope, a mount, a guide scope, 2 cameras, a filter holder, filters, cables, hubs, etc.
Crazily.. I have almost the exact same collection, an ES80, not the 102 on an AVX, No Rasa, but an Edge 8 with Hyperstar, and an ED127 that share an IOptron GEM45... different flavors of the same cameras, QHY183 (same chip as the ZWO), ASI2600MM (New version of the 1600) and a lodestar x2 for guiding. Even have a Celestron Alt-Az (but with a 6inch) for planetary work, the same Orion 80 Guide scope (gathering dust as it weighs a ton), a daystar quark I use with a Cannon 200MM Lens on an AVX. Even use that same awesome moonlite focuser on both my ES scopes. Think you are after the same goals as I, maximum flexibility, high quality, and reasonable cost.
g`day chuck thanks for the tour of the toy/tool box very impressive.. due to whats happening in the world i think my plans for the CGX are fading fast.. oh well stuff happens...mate i hope you and your family are safe and well...looking forward to the next video always a highlight of my day cheers james D
I live on the north side of lake st clair in Canada and on a cloudy night you can look towards Detroit and see the clouds lit right up a bright orange. Crazy amount of light pollution over there.
NIce! Just need a big Dob. They have problems but every time I take out mine I'm glad I did because there's just no comparison to the view and detail. But still, I don't do it often enough and use my 4' refractor even over my 8'SCT... sigh, laziness is hard and even harder to admit. Best, Ken
Thank you so much for the clear videos, you show us telescope and it's photo, best clear and understanding video I've ever watched, I hope you tell me if you did a new collection video about it.
Thank you so much, I'm getting into astronomy and astrophysics right now. This video really helped. Unfortunately due to my age I have a low budget and I live in a city centre
What a video, thanks for sharing, and good to see my nexstar 8se on the list again...!!!👍, and nice all the stakes at rhe end of the vid...you made my laugh....😁👍
Wow! Thank you for sharing your rig set up. It makes me feel a bit better. I have 4 telescopes, and 3 mounts. 2 alt-az go-to great as you said for planetary and lunar and one GEM for DSO imaging. I see how they fit different purposes. I started with a Celestron CST thinking that it could do it all, and it can but under ideal conditions. But, I also live 20 mins from the city center of one of the largest cities in the US. Amazing the current technology that allows to image from such poor conditions. But between the scopes, the filters, the cameras and all the paraphernalia, it can work!
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Subbed & thanks for sharing the video. If you don't mind answering how much would a set-up like the 1st one cost?
@@sgtreynolds3946 Close to $8K.
@@ChucksAstrophotography now I know why many motionless flat Earther's are using the Cannon P-1000, it's much cheaper.
I subscribed to your channel and I’m in the market for a new telescope, my first, right now. I was really hoping you would have prices listed alongside your rigs. My budget is $2,000 - $2,500 and my goal is to see objects within the solar system first, but would absolutely love to see objects outside the solar system as well. I recognize I might not have the amount of money needed to do that. If I only could buy one telescope, what do you recommend? I really respect your opinion and eagerly await your reply.
@@ttrestle I actually do list prices in my TikTok video. But a telescope, mount, camera, guide scope, guide camera all adds up. You can start in this hobby for less than $1K with just a DSLR camera and Star Tracker: www.tiktok.com/@chucksastrophotography/video/6918741876300451078?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v2
I went from sneaker collection to watch collection, don’t know how I ended up in telescope collection 😂
That sums me up too, lol.
Lol
I collect the stickers used on bananas.
Only been at it for 8 months so my album only has 237 stickers in it. The total value of my album is about $7.84 - maybe even more depending on demand for bananas and cyclonic activity in the tropics
Damn, crazy ride 🤣
Exactly the same with my haha
It will be interesting to point these rigs at the same time towards a single target and compare their image quality in the same environmental conditions.
Where I live I just need to drive 40 minutes out to a state forest and I’m into the blue!! 0 light pollution, and what you see with just your eyes is amazing.
Love the outtakes.. lol
You Def have some nice rigs Chuck..!! 👊😷
Thanks Bruce!
This was so awesome. I'm building a camper trailer and was planning on making sure I had storage for my astrophotography gear. It's time to upgrade. Your primary rig looks perfect for my needs. Your big rig is out of my storage range when I'm off road down a fire trail in the middle of nowhere for a night. Thanks for the concise vid. Keep up the great work!
Great tour Chuck! Love all the scopes!
Thanks Ray!
Impressive sir, I'm here from Reddit and just want to say thanks 👍 I love looking at you pictures on Reddit and Instagram.
Thanks again!
Thanks for your contribution to the astro community. Dylan and AstroBackyard led me here. I live 'up the road' from AstroBackyard! I had relatives that used to live in your neighborhood. Stay safe.
Cool, thanks for stopping by, Terry.
Chuck! It IS the perfect shape! Enjoyed the video as usual.
lol, thanks Andy!
Just like all of your followers I was really waiting for this, thanks a million
Thanks Jeffin Joe!
Wow, Chuck, very nice set of rigs! I think you’re covered for just about everything except having one of the Keck scopes in your backpack, LOL! Thanks for the fun tour, stay safe and well.
lol, thanks Steve - you stay safe as well.
Love the comments about the 8 SE. Reminds me to do the same with my older equip.
Yeah, it's still a use rig.
One of most wanted video. Stay safe chuck 💪👍✌️
Thanks Banuka, same to you.
Love your big rig chuck! Clear skies!
Thanks Melly!
love the gear and info, love the bloopers, and i love Cain. You have a new subscriber
Thanks for showing your rigs... just started to learn astrophotography. Watching your videos has really helped in getting nuggets of info.
Glad to hear it, thanks Chris!
@@ChucksAstrophotography Any words of wisdom as I begin this endeavor? Thnx....
@@chrismartin8381 Just remember to have fun, even when you get frustrated if things don't work.
Thanks for the tour. Enjoyed this, especially during these difficult times. Take care Chuck and be safe... Cheers.
Thanks Rosevan
, same to you.
Jeebuz. And here I thought I’d gone overboard when I [just] purchased an Orion BT-100 with Monster Parallelogram mount.
I need to show this video to my wife to prove I’ve only just begun. Nice rigs!!
Hey chuck, Wyoming Bob here. Loved the video on your rig's gave me food for thought. My sister lives in Elba so my thoughts and prayers are with you guys. Be safe and open skies
Thanks Bob, glad you found the video useful.
I Just bought a Celestron 8. My first scope.
Good choice, you'll have lots of fun with it.
Have fun!!
Great News! You will luv it my friend!
Wes, Liverpool, UK.
Me too. Does your goto work?
@@tankgrief1031 I have not tried the go to ability. Had it five days. And I haven't left feedback yet! But seller has 💯 % and deals with scopes and such. Is that a problem they have?
Hi Chuck, a year ago you had made a decision not to get the 8” RASA based on focal length you already had. I left you a comment about getting in the grove and getting the RASA. Well you did get one albeit a freebee but now it’s your number one rig, awesome Chuck. I knew you would enjoy using it once you got one, keep enjoying the RASA, great scope! ;-)
Thanks Carl! I love the RASA, you're right.
@@ChucksAstrophotography And through your results using the RASA Chuck..I got one myself and use it as a main imaging scope...words escape me how to describe the joy!
You make me jealous, Chuck. I bought a new 115mm apo last October, and since then I've had my 80mm sitting in the case, because I don't have an extra mount for it. Someday I'll turn that into a complete second rig like you.
Yeah, once you get a complete 2nd rig, then you can start thinking about a 3rd, lol.
lol, yes, absolutely.
Cain at the end was a great touch
Oh my goodness I’ve just started watching your “outtakes” and they are hysterical and a great part of your videos Chuck 😂😂
lol, thanks!
Chuck the living astro legend and deep sky servy. Totaly cool. 😀
lol, thanks Andreas!
Thanks Chuck!,for sharing your rigs,lovely setups.
Thanks Tam!
0:35 I started to believe you right after this moment 😂
I’ve always loved outer space and all my electives for school are photography
Did we witness a “drive-by” within the first minute lol?
Sure the hell sounded like it. I thought boyz in the hood was playing 🤣🤗
Probably detroit ain't no joke, I wouldn't be letting everyone see those shinny teliscopes they might think about hopping a fence or two soon as u go take a piss .
xD
Didnt hear any shots prob just a peel out
For SUUUUUUURE at 0:34
Thanks. It's always fun to watch folks get excited talking about their cool stuff, especially when the stuff is actually way cool, as this is. The night sky in Dexter is a little darker I think from where you are and I always thought how fun it would be... but I did a little running total of the cost of youre driveway line up. You know, you could buy a boat for that kind of $$.
Hello Chuck. Thanks for posting a tour of your rigs. I really enjoy your your videos.
Thanks Don!
The dog wants to see the stars and the planets... awesome setup with the four telescopes
Nasa astronomy picture of the day woo I'm honored to hear that
Nice setup! Love your pasion!
Thanks Justin!
Another lovely video Chuck ft. DJ Cane! I also don't know what to say about the situation except, take care and stay healthy.
Thanks Astroforum!
amazing set ups there Chuck! Lots of options for imaging! Bless Kane the Dog! lol Hey i been wanting you to include Kane in a vid for so long! So thanks for including the infamous Kane in the vid! I am always happy when i see a notification for a new vid on your channel! Great vid as always Chuck. Best Wishes from Liverpool, England!
Wes ( Bortle 8 )
Thanks Wes, Kane was being a brat today, lol.
Sorry to bother you guys but are you guys neighbours
@@savtheastroguy Hi. I never seen this comment until now!?? 7 months later!?? lol. No sir, myself and Chuck are not neighbours, i reside in Liverpool, UK, he resides in Detroit, USA! Why you ask sir ? Thanks, Wes.
Chuck Always good stuff........ stay safe................. and keep them coming
Thanks Stan - you stay safe too!
Thanks Chuck! We're on lockdown here and need a valid reason to leave the house. Can only gather in groups of no more than two people and can't have friends around. I'm already going crazy, because we were already locked down for a lot of the calendar year with constant air pollution from the bushfires. What a year.. Fires, smoke, destructive hailstorms, flooding and now a freakin pandemic.
Yeah, we are in crazy times now and nobody really knows how long it will last.
1,000,000 and one... Nice setup! I was at my Insurance agent’s office last week and got my scopes and live streaming studio insured... doesn’t cost that much. Insured for replacement value... something you might think about doing. Rather than taking photos of my stuff for insurance... I’m going to do a-walk-about live stream of what I have... Something that I was going to do anyway. Nine setups that include the 8 and 11 inch RASA’s and white/ h-alpha setup. Saved your video and will include it in a up and coming live stream. Keep the dog in!!!
Cool, I'm subscribed and have the bell turned on, so hopefully I'll be around and will watch it.
Perfect display. We where waiting for this tour. Nice !
Thanks
Pierre!
This many telescopes puts a smile on my face 😀👍🖖
Lol, mine too
Superb cool telescope 🔭❤️ dear, thank you for informational video... Fully enjoyed 😀💖🎁🎁🎁🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Nice scope family Chuck. I have the Meade 127ED and love it to bits as well. Stay safe. Cheers.
Thanks Matt, I've never tried Meade before, but I see people taking really nice images with them.
Fantastic, really like the bloopers.....do you have a video of you carrying around those scopes
Thanks Tim, here is a video of my startup process: th-cam.com/video/07BV6pjSZlA/w-d-xo.html
Hi Chuck! I’ve been looking to get into astrophotography this year. Glad to have come across your channel.
“It’s the perfect shape...” 😂
lol
_"That's what SHE said!"_
{Oh, come on, I KNOW you were thinking it...😉}
Hi Chuck, TH-cam recommended this video to me because I've been watching a lot of other astrophotography videos lately from AstroBackyard and Peter Zelinka. I'm just about 20 min north of Detroit and have been going out to Dark Sky parks like Lake Hudson and Port Crescent because I thought there's no way I could get decent astrophotos with all of the light pollution around here. I've just been using a Canon DSLR and an iOptron SkyGuider Pro and have started looking at stepping up to a refractor and guiding, but haven't yet. Very beginner. Anyway, just wanted to sell hello, neighbor.
Hello neighbor! I'm shocked TH-cam recommended my video, I didn't think they showed me any love. Thanks for letting me know.
Nice rigs Chuck! Nice to see you are good! Stay safe! Cheers from Perú!
Thanks astrofotoperu
, I hope Perú is staying safe as well.
It’s like when the groundhog comes out but Chuck’s telescopes come out. Oh holy hell, 6 more weeks of cloudy nights. Put em’ up Chuck, ya jinxing us lol. Btw, I was imaging finally after months of cloudy skies and enjoying imaging the Leo triplet and Makarvian Chain. I haven’t used the new asi533 since the comp broke so I’m back to old school Canon dslr imaging on my Apertura 60mm apo scope
lol. The Leo triplet and Makarvian Chain are both great targets, glad you are imaging again. Your computer broke?
Chuck's Astrophotography yea, since February, got some high tec virus that wiped out my startup, not even a wipe is fixing it. I can’t process any pics, just putting all my lights and calibration frames into a external HD till I save up and buy another one. Hopefully the air pro is coming soon so I can at least use the asi533 again.
Chuck I wanted to ask you if it is advisable to combine 30 second data sets with 5 minute data. Same lens and same framing. If it is ok, should I stack them separately and try to blend them in PS? What’s your experience with that?
Glad to see the tape still holding that Telrad on the 8SE :D
lol, it works
@@ChucksAstrophotography If it ain't broken don't fix it! Cracks me up too! Every time you put together a video Chuck, I always look to see if the tape is still holding! Old wise astronomy said to me many years ago....telescopes are for looking through not looking at!
Glad to find your channel man I love your setups they're awesome! I am also 20 minutes from Detroit and about 20 minutes from the airport so who knows we probably live in the same area lol anyway love your videos dude glad I found this channel
I think the lower left corner of the video would have been a better choice for the text overlays. You placed them right on top of the telescope you were discussing while leaving a clear view of your vest. Nice vest.
I know, I was thinking about that, but I tired to place them on the screen quickly and then be gone, lol.
Great video as always Chuck, once all this madness is over I'll certainly be switching my 6se to something bigger and better. Stay safe man 👍
Thanks Ben, stay safe!
The images that your are able to capture and process -- esp. given your urban, humid , often overcast location (I'm originally from NW Ohio) --- are quite remarkable. Nice work, Chuck!
Great collection Chuck!!!
Thanks Luke!
Lol. I had a few questions but then I went and looked at the comments and realized this guy don't gaf about any questions at all. Nor answering them.
My set contains on do-all refractor (William Optics FLT-98 with a cooled DSLR. Another set is for small wide field scopes (William Optics ZW66, William Optics Star-71) with a very light mount and a small DSLR to go. I am going to configure a rig with my F4 Newtonion.
And of course your new setup of the red cat 51 apo
and eq 6r mount.
Which one is best
I can't pick, they all server a specific purpose.
Awesome collection of telescopes, they certainly shame my skywatcher 130M.
Thanks, as long as you are having fun with the 130M, that's what counts.
Thanks for sharing Chuck! Nice star fleet!
Thanks Mike!
Awesome vid I plan to buy my first scope ever in February thanks again for the information and happy holidays
I learned alot from you my guy! Appreciate it! 💯
Wow a lot of money! This hobby is fantastic but unfortunately it involves too much money for me, even for one setup. I mean you have to buy a telescope, a mount, a guide scope, 2 cameras, a filter holder, filters, cables, hubs, etc.
Yeah, this is why I'm poor now.
Crazy cool the passion and love you have for your telescope great job
Thanks for the tour Chuck
No prob, thanks Ace!
Crazily.. I have almost the exact same collection, an ES80, not the 102 on an AVX, No Rasa, but an Edge 8 with Hyperstar, and an ED127 that share an IOptron GEM45... different flavors of the same cameras, QHY183 (same chip as the ZWO), ASI2600MM (New version of the 1600) and a lodestar x2 for guiding. Even have a Celestron Alt-Az (but with a 6inch) for planetary work, the same Orion 80 Guide scope (gathering dust as it weighs a ton), a daystar quark I use with a Cannon 200MM Lens on an AVX. Even use that same awesome moonlite focuser on both my ES scopes. Think you are after the same goals as I, maximum flexibility, high quality, and reasonable cost.
g`day chuck thanks for the tour of the toy/tool box very impressive.. due to whats happening in the world i think my plans for the CGX are fading fast.. oh well stuff happens...mate i hope you and your family are safe and well...looking forward to the next video always a highlight of my day
cheers
james D
Thanks James, stay safe!
Awesome Chuck, thanks for the tour man
Thanks for watching, Scott!
Cane is adorable
He's my buddy :-)
@@ChucksAstrophotography 😊
Great tour of the scopes, Love the outtakes👍
Thanks Oliver :-)
I live on the north side of lake st clair in Canada and on a cloudy night you can look towards Detroit and see the clouds lit right up a bright orange. Crazy amount of light pollution over there.
0:34 Detroit sound effects right on cue lol
Thanks I watched several of your vid’s before I made my first purchase. Your vid’s are very helpful thanks.
It does have a very nice shape.
lol, yeah
Swap that 8in for a 14in EdgeHD!! I did and don't regret it!
Clap clap clap. Thx for the videos.
lol, thanks Tigercloud
!
short focus or long focus ，every telescope have their advantages.it depend on what kind of target you want to shoot.
Good poimt
NIce! Just need a big Dob. They have problems but every time I take out mine I'm glad I did because there's just no comparison to the view and detail. But still, I don't do it often enough and use my 4' refractor even over my 8'SCT... sigh, laziness is hard and even harder to admit. Best, Ken
Chuck, stay safe.
Thanks
lynx yellow, you too.
I subscribed Sir fantastic explanation and great presentation 😊😊😊💐💐
Great informative video as usual. Take care !
Thanks
Philippe!
Thank you so much for the clear videos, you show us telescope and it's photo, best clear and understanding video I've ever watched, I hope you tell me if you did a new collection video about it.
Awesome gear Chuck!
Thanks UA!
Great summary video, thanks!!
Hey Chuck!🤭
Greetings from Poland!
Hello to Poland, from the USA!
Great video, thank for the tour.
Thanks for watching, Brian!
Nice tour of the scopes. Thanks for the laughs with the outtakes, seems you have light & noise pollution. 😀
lol, yes I do. Thanks Lee.
Thank you so much, I'm getting into astronomy and astrophysics right now. This video really helped. Unfortunately due to my age I have a low budget and I live in a city centre
Chuck your awesome I absolutely love what your doing.
Awesome video. Thanks for sharing!
Keep up the good vids 🙏🏻
What a video, thanks for sharing, and good to see my nexstar 8se on the list again...!!!👍, and nice all the stakes at rhe end of the vid...you made my laugh....😁👍
Lots of money there mate .. thanks for the little vid
That’s why I’m poor now, lol.
Good flo. Nice edit.
Thanks!
I really do think it's the perfect shape! You can't beat a refractor on an EQ mount :)
lol, good point!
I'd love to see a recommendation on the best scope for a beginner on a budget...
Love the out takes at the end! The pitty is beautiful too!
Apertura AD8 8" Dobsonian for around $550
Wow! Thank you for sharing your rig set up. It makes me feel a bit better. I have 4 telescopes, and 3 mounts. 2 alt-az go-to great as you said for planetary and lunar and one GEM for DSO imaging. I see how they fit different purposes. I started with a Celestron CST thinking that it could do it all, and it can but under ideal conditions. But, I also live 20 mins from the city center of one of the largest cities in the US. Amazing the current technology that allows to image from such poor conditions. But between the scopes, the filters, the cameras and all the paraphernalia, it can work!
Geez Chuck you're gonna need a bigger place if you keep buying telescopes! :) Thanks for the tour! Stay Safe!
lol, thanks Shawn - you stay safe too! Man, I wish I had a telescope shop near me like you do.