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Okay I need pros and cons of each of these scopes .. they’re all respectively bigger than what I already have ..  I have to narrow it down more my choice .. I’ve got 7 months lol

1 hour ago, jacko61 said:

Doesn't look anything like the Plaeides to me. In fact I'd say it looks more like the Hyades in the head of taurus.

Graeme

  

You know what, I haven’t seen that one in a good long while lol.. I need to remember to plan what I want to view for the evening and aim for it . 

11 hours ago, Alan64 said:

Believe it or not, I have a 50/600 too, but from 1969, a Sears/Towa.  I got it off of eBay for $25, a few years ago.  I restored, enhanced it, then saw a globular-cluster with it...

What's wrong with the diagonal?

Nothing other than the screws for it went missing and I have yet to find them 

My current scopes are the Orion goscope iii 70mm refractor and the National Geographic/ bresser NT114CF reflector .  I also have the 50mm/600mm National Geographic / bresser telescope (I seldom use this one but my autistic son has indicated he wants it once the diagonal is fixed) 

I mainly enjoy planetary viewing and star clusters .   I do enjoy the Orion Nebula when I get lucky enjoy to find it . Lately my daughter has had luck finding stuff without trying (so for Christmas she’s getting her own telescope )

I told my husband I would love to add a mak-cass to my telescopes .. that being said, I know what it is and how they basically work but would like advice on if I should go for it or go for a bigger reflector ?? 

I’ve been enjoying it.  I can definitely say that I love not falling on my butt anymore . The tripod let’s me sit and stargaze through it . 

Thanks and Yes star pattern I was referring to. Never heard of that website gonna give it a try 

I have the nat geo NY114CF which is also a fast reflector as well. Looks same as your Celestron 114AZ . I used it a couple days ago but I need to collimate it again. Which would be the second time .. (my mom moves my scopes around bumping them Willy nilly on accident) 

Few weeks back I was using my scope (Orion go scope III 70 mm aperture)but I got something that greatly resembles dumbbell nebula . I’ve added unedited and edited photo.  I’ve been using my 26mm plossol a lot lately . This was with my OIII filter as well.  Taken and enhanced on iPhone 13 mini . 

Last night I got some good shots with my iPhone 13 mini and I believe I got the Pleiades . Can anyone verify??  I been using my Orion goscope III 70 mm . 

On 07/06/2021 at 14:26, Louis D said:

Well, if you weren't paying rental fees on the unit all those years, consider the losses as payment toward unpaid rental fees.  It might have been the owner pilfering the cream of the crop on you.  If you were paying rental fees, the owner had no right to change the lock, and you've probably got a legal case against them.

We were paying on it .. but we’re out of state when someone was caught going into said unit so the owner of unit decided not to charge us for last few months to make up for their slack in watching it better .. someone apparently fooled a new employee that it was my husband.. wasn’t discovered until husband called to make payment as usual 

Well; we got the stuff from storage and looks like items were stolen; my husband isn’t happy about that as it was a different lock on our unit (put there by the owner of the place ) and stuff got stolen .. video game system in addition to the telescope and eyepieces ... 

You’re right about it being on the more costly side but I’ve heard it’s a good brand 

I know there are 2x (which I have two of .. one came with my reflector) , 3x and 5x but I’ve never seen a 4x.. do they exist?  I’m contemplating getting another set of filters so I can keep on set with my reflector and the other with my refractor .. 

Next week is when we can get all our stuff from the storage unit so we’re getting excited to see what all we can recover 

All I can recall is that it’s an eq mount reflector scope . Turquoise colored tube.. I can’t remember if it’s 114 mm or 130 mm in aperture ..  I think it was an Orion brand .. 

Posting here as I think this is best spot .. anyways my husband just informed there’s a great chance I’ll recover my old reflector telescope from a storage unit we thought we lost a few years back 

I love the detail of the moon. 

I had a good time viewing the moon last night . I opted to use my yellow filter as I couldn’t find my filter for cutting that brightness down.. the funny thing the pictures all don’t show the yellow filter .. I used my iPhone se (2020 edition) and my 26 mm eyepiece , yellow filter and some had a 2x Barlow on my National Geographic 114 mm aperture reflector telescope . 

Hello everyone ,

I gave my cousin my other reflector telescope and got this one which I am excited to try out tonight, it just arrived today.  I needed a tripod mount so o wouldn’t risk falling due to my inner ear disorder .

So the other night I took a picture with my iPhone se of Jupiter but the conditions had it looking like mars .. I don’t fully remember what eyepiece I was using inside my telescope either.

2 hours ago, Ruud said:

Could it be that the problem is not the Newtonian and that you might experience the same discomfort with any telescope?

The  eye and inner ear feed us information about out position in the world around us , if we are upright, lying on  our back , in what direction we look, all that sort of stuff. When you look through a telescope your eyes no longer give you information about these things. If at the same time you get all sorts of false information from your vestibular system I imagine that might be the reason of your vertigo.

Maybe hold on to something, place a playing radio to one side, observe with one eye on the eyepiece but keeping the other open as well (If the surroundings are dark enough), anything that feeds your brain with extra information about your position and orientation in space? It's just an idea of course, but it might be worth exploring.

I wish you well and hope you find a solution.

I have way less vertigo with music playing in my earbuds and I hold onto the table my scope sets on but the vertigo still happens just not as intense . I’m hoping the new tripod mount will help me .

I think I found a solution and not have to part with my scope.. I found another mount online that would allow me to put the reflector on a tripod 

14 hours ago, Stu said:

Which scope do you have?

My reflector is a Meade eclipseview 114 . It is a tabletop telescope . I love it because it is the size aperture I tend to like . But I can’t comfortably sit and view with it as the only table out back is a picnic table with built in seats