spacedobsonian

You know, people look at the Jupiter or the Andromeda galaxy and say "Is that it?" I think people don't think about what they are looking, so I would just say that just think about what you are seeing, Jupiter, a planet larger than any, floating 750 million km from earth, with its great red spot 4x the size of earth. It just gives a sense of grandeur while observing it and that's the main reason I enjoy this hobby! I would recommend trying it out the next time you observe anything!

I am thinking of starting to dip my toes into astrophotography, I have little budget for a camera so I went to Orion and found two cameras for under 175£, I want to shoot simple planetary shots and some deep space, the telescope I might use this on is a 70mm f/10 refractor, or a 100/114mm reflector. I don't want world class images, but just want a few simple pics, so here are the cameras that I found: https://www.telescope.com/Orion/Orion-StarShoot-3mp-Solar-System-V-Imaging-Camera/rc/2160/p/130983.uts?sortByColumnName=SortByPriceAscending And: https://www.telescope.com/Orion/Orion-StarShoot-Mini-12mp-Color-Imaging-Camera/rc/2160/p/134986.uts?sortByColumnName=SortByPriceAscending The first one seems good enough but the second one seems to be really good, just that there are no reviews of it on the Orion site. Any and all advice is appreciated!

Going really off topic! Does it work on Jupiter and if not which simple (colour or any) filter will work for planetary?

Now, Astrophotography in Mobile has advanced a lot, you can take the same 200 photos automatically, all of semi long exposures (depends on the smartphone, mine has 40 seconds of exposures), but you can't stack them! In my opinion, a basic software like Snapseed but better, for astrophotography, and for beginners with easy UI and some stacking capability! That would be astrophotography heaven! (Atleast for beginners!!)

Very true!

I mean Skywatcher

A bit off-topic but they made a heritage 114p?

For example: https://www.firstlightoptics.com/beginner-telescopes/ursa-major-102mm-tabletop-dobsonian-telescope.html And https://www.firstlightoptics.com/heritage/skywatcher-heritage-100p-tabletop-dobsonian.html

How?

That's were I got the original idea for this post!

No, some scopes like the Skywatcher 130 starquest can't be collimated!

If you had to buy a small reflector dob (<6 inches) would you pay £20 more for a parabolical mirror BUT lose the ability to collimate? Would you buy the cheaper, spherical mirror, collimatable reflector dob or a £20 more expensive, parabolic mirror, not collimatable reflector dob?

It will be transported on a car but I also want it to be very compact because it will be travelling!

Pretty nice dob!

I actually read all reviews but I just pointed the ones that were a bit negative!