Getting Started Equipment Help and Advice

17,674 topics in this forum

1. Power issues with Celestron Powertanks, the ASiair and AM3

   By SiD the Turtle, April 7
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   • Elp
   • April 9

2. Sky-Watcher 7mm UWA 58° Eye Piece Questions

   By Flakmunky, April 8
   • 1 reply
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   • John
   • April 8

3. Help choosing light pollution filter

   By Your Star Will Shine, April 1
   • 4 replies
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   • Albir phil
   • April 8

4. Polaris moves in polar scope depending on 1 2 3 4 6

   By TiffsAndAstro, February 23
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   • TiffsAndAstro
   • April 8

5. View in Skyquest 4.5xt

   By Whatever, April 8
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   • Cornelius Varley
   • April 8

6. Starsense Auto Align

   By craigfromnotts, April 7
   • 1 reply
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   • Cosmic Geoff
   • April 7

7. Skywatcher AZ GTi mount in Australia.

   By octebra, April 7
   • 2 replies
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   • PhilB61
   • April 7

8. UV/ir cut filter unmodded dslr to astro cam

   By TiffsAndAstro, April 6
   • 7 replies
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   • AstroNebulee
   • April 7

9. Focuser For a Vixen 102m

   By wookie1965, April 3
   • 8 replies
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   • wookie1965
   • April 6

10. Screw this

    By TiffsAndAstro, April 5
    • 11 replies
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    • Ricochet
    • April 5

11. Zwo EAF Question

    By bottletopburly, April 5
    • 0 replies
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    • bottletopburly
    • April 5

12. Vixen centre negative question

    By woldsman, March 9
    • 23 replies
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    • michael8554
    • April 5

13. AZ EQ6 GT mount again!

    By crush, April 3
    • 7 replies
    • 164 views
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    • crush
    • April 4

14. Field Flatteners/Reducers

    By Mark2022, June 19, 2023
    • 14 replies
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    • Wulfstan
    • April 4

15. Focuser upgrade for Bresser 130mm f/5

    By danielhigham, March 30
    • 7 replies
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    • Naughty Neal
    • April 4

16. Guidescope: Where should I point it?

    By stillneon, April 3
    • 5 replies
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    • malc-c
    • April 4

17. Tracking in Stellarium using HEQ5 and EQMod

    By Astrotravelk, February 18   

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    • synscan
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      • tracking
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    • 14 replies
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    • AstroMuni
    • April 4

18. Repairs needed

    By MandyW, April 2
    • 9 replies
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    • Louis D
    • April 3

19. My first telescope

    By Adamito, April 1
    • 9 replies
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    • bosun21
    • April 1

20. Filters

    By Goldmask, April 1
    • 1 reply
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    • Clarkey
    • April 1

21. skywatcher eq5 pro handset

    By dougsbir, March 31
    • 4 replies
    • 151 views
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    • dougsbir
    • April 1

22. Birthday gift delimmna

    By cutepetgroomer, November 17, 2022
    • 17 replies
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    • Carbon Brush
    • April 1

23. Help with GoTo Dob mount slipping/dropping of the scope

    By PlanetGazer, August 14, 2020   

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      • dobsonain
    • 21 replies
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    • bertone_x19
    • March 30

24. SA-GTi Alignment and Slew Questions

    By mikeofthenorth, March 29
    • 7 replies
    • 156 views
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    • mikeofthenorth
    • March 30

25. Newbie to StarSense AutoAlign

    By Space Manta Ray, March 29
    • 4 replies
    • 100 views
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    • Cosmic Geoff
    • March 29