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First one shot with Fujifilm X-T3 and 35mm (50mm full frame equivalent) at F2, a stack of 20x8s frames. The second one is taken with the same camera and lens but when it was darker (in this case a stack of 30x8s frames) The third was taken 56mm F2.8 and it's a stack of 90x4s frames.

Quite well actually... the quality of the 13mm eyepiece is slightly better than the one (same focal length) coming inside the celestron 1,25" kit which I already own. A better eye relief I'd say. The GRS was terrific! I started looking at jupiter when spot was still not in sight and managed to look at it "rising"!

OMG... yesterday night was gorgeous! I managed to see the red spot on Jupiter! M3 with stars resolved! The leo triplets! M104 in all its sombreroness! Just amazing! And everything without losing time trying to get to them! Just did the alignment e enjoyed e great evening!

Today will be the night of its first light (not even a cloud in the sky at the moment)! Got an unlucky streak of cloudy nights till my precious arrived! The mount is incredibly sturdy!

It arrived! My precious just arrived! And of course is cloudy!

The reducer is able to increase the field of view at the expense of magnification because it has to fit a bigger image in the same area (the eyepiece). The 2" eyepiece on the contrary has a bigger area which show the image hence is able to increase the FOV without scarfing magnification. I guess it is like looking outside a window... if you are looking through a 2m^2 window to be able to fit the same "view" you are able to see within the frame in a 1m^2 window you have di squeeze it!

Nice update mate! Now I will never be able to bear the wait of mine!!! First day and already killing me!

Don't tell me... I already started dreaming about it XD! I'm terrible in waiting! I already have a list of accessories I want to by (like the reduces)! I just have to calm down (too excited)... which is hard! Really looking forward to gazing at all the galaxies between Leo and Virgo with this new scope! It is also quite worm during the winter... between 6 and 10 degrees during the night. I'm eager to read your updated review!

Ok... I did it! I ordered the Celestron Evolution 9.25 at my local shop! Unfortunately it will only arrive in April since all the models they already had (here in France the evolution line was launched this very month) were either gone or reserved... only evo 8 and 6 are left.

I do have another question: how far from each other should be the stars for the star-align procedure? Like Sirio + Capella + Castor would be a fine?

Great! With this I shouldn't have any problems with the FOV!Whereas the discussions about the single armed mount worried me a bit!

Thanks to you both! I live on the sea side, although I live near Cannes all the southern half of the sky is on a perfectly dark sea. Usually I suffer from nasty light pollution only when looking at objects W-NW-N-NE-E, while SE-S-SW is quite good. I too have a good pair of 15x70 binoculars! Unfortunately I do not have enough space at home to keep both the nexstar and the astromaster... one will go in my cave and will be used just occasionally. Aren't there any eyepieces capable of giving a FOV of at least 1 degree?

Hello, Last summer I bought a Celestron Astromaster 130 to pursue my "astronomy" dreams. I chose the astromaster 130 because it was cheap but not too "limited" in order to see if I had the will and the patience to practice diligently at a small risk (worst case scenario I wasted 200 euros). I proved my self capable of both and also more passionate than expected... hence I now NEED a bigger scope! I was thinking about the celestron nexstar evo 9.25... it is bigger (in terms of aperture) and I love the idea of controlling it using my iPhon or my iPad (I'm a computer engineer and I'm quite "turned on" by this kind of things). I have mostly one concerns... the focal length is 2350mm which wold lead more or less to a field of view of about 0.9 degrees using a 40mm eyepiece, which is kinda small compared to the almost 2.5 offered by my celestron with the 32mm eyepiece. Will I have issues finding objects? And what about gazing to bigger things?