Celestron 11069 NexStar 8SE Computerised Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope with Advanced GPS, Astroimaging and AutoAlign Features, Black/Orange

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Your first night as an 8SE owner will be so much more rewarding if you’ve got your power source sorted! This process makes alignment as easy as 1-2-3: just center three bright objects in your eyepiece and press ALIGN. This nighttime photo is a single picture, so you can fit the entire moon in frame with the focal reducer. So, if you want to photograph it, and your telescope has so much magnification that it can’t even fit the entire full moon into a single frame, it has zero chance of capturing the Andromeda Galaxy. Unique single fork arm design and sturdy steel tripod all break down into separate components for easy transport and quick assembly.

Place the new CR-2032 battery, positive (+) side up, under the two copper battery clips at the front of the battery compartment. You will get impressive views of the Moon and planets, along with deep sky objects like the Orion Nebula, while retaining a compact form factor. Finally the 'Travel Pro' - the first variable-use fork mount from Celestron, with built-in stand, which can also be used without a tripod.Keeping the phone still enough for a photo, and lining the camera lens up with the center of the eyepiece is the tricky part. The electronics of your camera produce inherent noise in the sensor, which shows up in the bias photos. If it’s planets you’re after, get a decent high-magnification eyepiece too, something in the 10mm or lower range. This is still too much magnification to photograph the Andromeda galaxy, however (which is 6 full moons wide). I was a bit perplexed how these were different than Darks, but Darks at taken at the same temperature and exposure as Lights, while Dark Flats are taken at the same temperature and exposure as Flats.

It is easy to use manually finding stars and planets and the go to mount is fab especially when you don’t really know what you are looking for. Instead, with these clever electronics, you’ll go straight to the object you want to see and use your precious viewing time studying it rather than trying to find it! Diagonal mirrors provide an upright but back-to-front image and Amici prisms provide an upright and right-sided image. My reasons for not giving 5* are Skyalign fails more than it should ⁸/¹⁰ times and batteries are drained in just a few hours of observation.You get an 8-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope with excellent optics and a computerized mount that can point to objects in the night sky for you. However, despite many, many complaints, Celestron still doesn’t package the NexStar range with any power cable. At the forefront of a new era in amateur astronomy, the launch of Celestron Origin stands as a beacon, seamlessly intertwining stargazing and astrophotography into a singular, user-friendly experience. Also other telescopes, used for other purposes, can be connected onto the same fork mount - such as a solar telescope or various cameras with a range of lenses, etc. Earlier this summer, Comet Neowise passed by, giving me a glimpse of the second comet I’ve seen in my lifetime.

If you remember your geometry days, trying to draw a circle using (x, y) coordinates is complicated.Getting to this point is straightforward and rewarding, and does not require existing comprehension of the night sky.

Using this method (eyepiece projection astrophotography), you can capture impressive images of the Moon, Jupiter, Saturn, and even Mars. Left to right: 1) Bahtinov mask - placed over the telescope’s end, it produces a spiked diffraction pattern around a star that you can use to perfectly focus the telescope. Main mirror focusing means a very large range of focus is made available, which allows virtually any common accessory to be used. Planetarium software package which provides easy-to-understand explanations and impressive visuals of all kinds.

I should note that the 8SE’s alt-az mount is rated for 11 lbs, and the 8SE OTA weighs 11 pounds, so piggybacking anything puts you over the mount’s payload.