Skywatcher 114mm SKY HAWK AZ EQ Avant product review Part 1
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ต.ค. 2024
- You got your first telescope for Christmas or the New Year, And you're getting frustrated setting it up for the first time or not been able to find anything. Please follow on this Astro adventure where I take you through all the stages what beginners will face during starting out on Astronomy, so please follow me through this series of videos, where I'll take right at the beginning from the start-up and I will go further a field into observing with a few tuning mods along the way!!
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Very informative and thorough. Thank you for your time and efforts.
So nice of you
Good to see you back pal.
Thank you for the positive feedback!!
cracking vid, good to see you active again on here. Any vids for beginner astrophography would be fantastic.... ;)
Thanks James, look forward to next video tonight, this will be a eye popper for some people.
@@MPAstro ive set the reminder. :)
@@AstroPixUK Good man!! I'll see you there and LET'S DO THIS!!!!
I have this setup!except for the motor...I started last year using this, as a complete neophyte, and I got some great satisfaction observing moon, jupiter, venus, saturn and also the Orion nebula... So I asked in a community if it was a good idea to buy the motor, for try to do some photo and do practice before buy something very expensive. everybody start to talk about heq5 eq6 ECC... Now I saw all of your video about this and I have to say thank you!!! (but I'm not ready to cut the tube😁) Can't wait for more video on this!! Sorry for my bad English and greetings from Italy!
the new autoguiding video is out now, please watch and hit a like, Your seriously going to enjoy this one for sure???
th-cam.com/video/rEyqoVv9MnM/w-d-xo.html
Hiya Martin, great videos of this product. Can i mention i love the photos you have in the background and secondly, would this telescope be any good for high altitude plane spotting with a DSLR camera?
Yes, absolutely
good to see ya back on buddy :)
Thank you mate, look forward to Part 2
Thank you for the great video!
I want to buy the Meade 114mm, 450mm focal lenght (f/3.947) "EclipseView" to test it in astrophotography because it must be very light and fast. This one from Meade does have a traditional primary collimation mirror setting and I like that too.. I would like to adapt a Moonlite Focuser "CR 2 inch Format Newtonian" to be able to use my Atik 383L+ Mono camera on it.
I agree with you that this 114mm Newtonian option and such a fast "f" (f/4.38), like your scope; can be an excellent option when comparing refractors of that approximate size and which are really expensive ...
I have always been a fan of Newtonian telescopes for their great ability to obtain direct light to the primary mirror, unimpeded. Not like the maksutov, cassegrain, etc... Also for their comfortable cost and good apertures.
I would think that with the Meade 114mm f/4, it would be a little better ...
So I want to buy it
Martin, I have been following you for a while for your way of explaining this exciting subject of amateur astronomy. I am not English speaking, my language is Spanish, I live in Bogotá - Colombia (South America) and here the latitude is quite low, we are in Bogotá at 4º N but the sky from the north and also from the south is very well observed.
I totally agree with you Hernado, Newtonians are extremely versatile scopes which can be tuned up quite easily for Astrophotography. The Meade 114mm scope that you are considering buying, I don't have any experiences on using such scope, But I can tell for certain that Meade make superb optics, but they tend to fall back on the quality on their mounts, which let's them down little ( I used to own a Meade 125ETX superb optics, the Fork mount electronics failed and break easily).
However the F Ratio will be biggest bang for that scope, at F4 it will defo be miles faster than my Skywatcher 114mm f4.4 for sure.
I am certain that you can achieve this scope and making better for Astro photography and obtain some fine images from it.
Newtonians always tend to get a bum deal when it comes to taking space pictures, Sometimes I am fed-up that a few people in the astro community, advise beginners to invest in an APO/ED Refractor and minimum of at least a HEQ-5 mount to do just basic Astro photography, When simply it's just isn't the case, and on a serious note that advice given to beginners is well above their budget they can afford.
Hence why forced myself to create new video content on this Skywatcher 114mm AZ-EQ mount series to prove to the viewers that you do have to invest a ton of money to take astro pictures, and I totally proved it in my new video.
Good luck on your new scope and please share your experiences on how you get on with your new project Hernando.
Top tip!! with the 2" focuser, with the scope be able to take 2" format eyepieces, invest in a coma corrector ideally the Skywatcher one, as that coma corrector not only corrects coma in your images, it will provide 0.9x reduction, given your scope a boost to F3.8. Something to really consider. Remember that it's not all about the scope, a good mount with good RA tracking motor and is accurately polar aligned is Key to successful imaging.
Here is the link for that Skywatcher Coma corrector,
www.firstlightoptics.com/coma-correctors/skywatcher-coma-corrector.html
Yeah Martin !! and thank you very much for the information about the SkyWatcher coma corrector!, I will also have to buy it ..., Excellent to make that telescope even faster!. Currently, I have a Baader 2 "MPCC Mark III coma corrector, but it is also nice to have 2 different coma correctors like that from skywatcher. I will buy it.
I still haven't bought the Explore Scientific iEXOS-100 PMC-Eight Equatorial Tracker System mount, and I will buy it in a few months ...
I see that it is a very good mount, cheap and very easy to load ..., (Like a Newtonian 114mm of short focal length) ...
That mount, Explore Scientific, sells the "iEXOS-100 Azimuth Adjuster Adapter" separately, which is indispensable for nano azimuth corrections. They also sell you the same mount but even more complete. Even more robust tripods.
I have a 12 inch Newtonian with a Celestron CGX-L mount. I have that telescope fully configured for astrophotography but the bad thing about it is its weight, size and something difficult to carry to dark places. That is why I want to opt for the acquisition of a small (such as a 114mm f/4), versatile and not as expensive equipment as the large one that I have. I want to enjoy visual observation much more easily, but I also want to enjoy astrophotography much more with a good price equipment and easy to transport.
Thank you for all!
One question regarding the EQ side of it, Martin. How does it track the objects in the sky?
You move it by hand using slow motion controls, However there is another part I will cover this mount in greater detail Tony in the next Part of my Astro Adventures!!
@@MPAstro ah, a manual drive, that's really neat! Looking forward to to part 2.
At 48:00 what is the purpose of the smaller interior cap??
thank you for watching the video, The cap has no use whatsoever, I don't know they designed that way and I feel it confuses beginners thinking that is the official dust cap, when really it isn't and you have to remove the entire cap to maximise full aperture ability of the telescope. I think it misleads beginners and I feel that Skywatcher should make a solid one dust cap, which would be much cheaper to make plus you don't have extra part to get lost somewhere, making the complete dust cap rendered useless. Please look forward to Part4 which will be available tonight at 19:00.
@@MPAstro I was wondering if the cap is for viewing the full moon.Even some large dobs have two small caps side by side for some reason. The smaller cap would cut down on the light but its just a guess. I will catch part 4 tonight. Thanks
Like your videos, good job. Question? I purchase a 90mm achromatic refractor f5.5 got the zwo camera you reviewed. What can I expect. Do you have an email
Thanks
Expect to see a huge amount of detail on Nebula, Galaxies and planets. As long your telescope is mounted on a Equatorial mount with computer or motor drives and the mount is polar aligned accurately. You'll see a ton of detail even at the camera set at 30% gain and just a 1 minute of exposure time. You'll be able to capture DSOs at 5 minutes with ease, However if the mount is unguided there will be a limit on how much you can expose before the you get star trailing in your images, (depending how polar aligned you are will determine how long you can expose, usually 5 minutes is the max). Then Auto-guiding will be the next step to push the mount and improve on the tracking will put you in the 10 minutes and over level, where fainter DSOs are needed to expose longer, just to get them barely visible. Also point to note!! Expect to get false colouring in your images with your Achromat Refractor, but if you expect it, then you can get superb images, there is a way to process the false colouring in Photoshop to reduce this effect to some degree, However that doesn't mean you can't image with an Achromat.
Does the Mount got GoTo?
Nope, bog standard Equatorial mount, with only a single speed RA motor drive. This takes alot of skill to able to take long exposure Astrophotography, but it proves one thing that polar alignment is key!! And I can achieve a maximum of 10mins exposuure time, but to be honest it is hit and miss and usually I get around 2mins to 5 mins on average, you need to check this video I did a while back, th-cam.com/video/OoK_AP8bu5I/w-d-xo.html