LDW1

I think you are missing, ignoring or whatever when it comes to how modern, the newest updating affects capabilities, performance of our discussion subject ! To use autos, tv's etc as a direct example is a no go and you must know that. Hopefully ! But you are correct ultimately the choice is yours, lol ! Good Luck in the future ! PS: I am 75 yr. old I accepted it a long time ago, on the other hand if ond doesn't have the spare cash to spend thats okay also, we are all in this for fun not the neccessity.

If you don't upgrade think of the $'s you save and the fun you miss, you can't have one without the other. It just leads to more whining, more cursing, lol ! Good Luck ! PS: And maybe restless sleep.

You are all wrong but it doesn't matter ! Tell that to or ask that rational of ZWO. You may not like the answer just before they hang up, lol ! PS: Before you do please explain how you introduce new applications, new applications, new ..... with a software update that the older ..... don't have the capacities, the ....... to utilize. Wasn't there a cartoon decades ago called Back To The Stone Age, lol ?

What can I say !

Don't disregard the ' new plastics ' it is a lot more than you might think, its the way of the world, the new world as is the SS50 ! Either join or don't, no one will care !

Correct but you just miss out on all the new features, new capabilities that go with each and every update for newer gear. If you are happy with that there is nothing wrong with living in the past.

As I said Good Luck !

And they are, any one in this ...... wouldn't give you 2 cents for it all, they are 2 far in the past, just keep them for you. Believe me I have been through it all !

For you maybe but checkin with ZWO and their workings. Good Luck ! PS: Its more than just something turning on, I sure you know, I will give you a 12 yr. old ipad it still turns on but after that ....... .

No matter how old they are they will likly turn on but when the company quits supporting, stops updates what do you think happens in its actual operation, its capabilities.

In anybodys right mind how can you even think of comparing those 2, lol ?

Are you just kidding ? LOL !

10 years old ! What exactly are you expecting, hopeing for 10 years later operating this revolutionary piece of gear ie SS50 ? Its always been upgrade this and now upgrade that, lol !

Do you really think the designers of the SS50 thought of someone trying what you are asking to ensure they would build that capability into this revolutionary $600 C piece of optical gear, as a matter of course ? As with anything new like this some should realize that the sky is not the limit. Sometimes I wonder what some fellow astronomers think they are getting all for a great but very low price, its just the start of something big, lol !

Couldn't you have put them in the same post even if you had to repeat one or added it to your previous post, as it is we have to jump between pages the comparison is a lot more difficult and not visually easy.

So can't you post the original image along side this doctored up one as a before and after, as a comparison for the benefit of all the new beginers ?

They state a few times on the SS50 group site to use it on AZ only but what do they know ! Good Luck !

A great part of a new world of ameteur astronomy, another lease on the astronomical life chain and all for very few $'s ! As Louis Armstrong once sang ' Its a wonderful world ', lol !

So far it sounds a lot easier than the D2.

Don't take those queries too serious, how could anyone ! Just to confuse maybe ?

Who exactly are these comments directed to, which beginer in the learning curve do you expect answers from and for what in this new devise ??

Its good to see you may have figured out that the SS50 is not for you, its a modern world, lol ! And I'm 75 yo, lol ! As a great singer / songwriter once penned ' the times they are a changin' ' . PS: I guess I am just one of the unwashed masses and I love every minute of it !

I thought they said there was a built in dew heater, if not rig up an after market dew heater, not a big deal ! Dew has been around before astronomy was invented, lol. PS: Not my business but with an instrument like this grandkids boredom should be the least concern, they will have the oportunity to grow into it as they grow / mature.

I watched the first 13 min. of the vid and its potential is better than I expected, much better than my D2. I can hardly wait to work with mine in another month or 2. PS: And I sure won't get bored, lol ! PPS: If I was younger I would probably buy 2.

Why would you be / get bored, while it was doing its thing why wouldn't you be doing your thing with another one of your scopes ?? Every nite project is different, when it comes to astronomy no one should get bored unless maybe ......