Totally_Computerized

Thanks ! Iam really struggling to pin down which gear to buy at my budget. I was totally sold on a dobby last week and it has been the plan for a few years , but I want to spend my limited time outside learning to image. I do want the 135 but its right at the top of my budget, cause of buying the star tracker and tripod and such . Ive seen a Skywatcher Evostar 72ED its cheaper outright but from what ive seen you need a field flattener/reducer and iam not sure if the star adventurer can take the weight in practice .

Hey guys , ive been flip flopping between gear to get all week since my last post . I think iam going to go with a star tracker insted of a dobby . The star adventurer pro pack is at £279 now , but i was wondering if you guys had any advice about star trackers . Yeah I know its not a Heq6 😎 ........ was looking at the rokinon 135mm as well but i looked at price tracking and it seems expensive at the moment, does anyone use one for AP . Iam trying to decide between that or save up for a 80mm apo .

I probably will go that route then , I only have two lenses for my 70d the variable that came with it and the 50mm that everyone buys when they have a canon 😁 Iam going to see how I go with the dobby then and start saving for a mount . Are the Phillips planispheres worth having while using a dobby , I watched some videos on how to understand them , but are the useful in practice?

Oh iam mind made up on a dob even if i cant AP its been to long already ha . I just wanted to see what could be achieved. Has anyone any experience with the skywatcher star adventurer pro or similar mounts as i could just get one of those for use with the camera and maybe a small refractor i think the weight limit was about 10 pounds .

I mean the reason I came here was because I got shot down in flames on reddit for trying to ask the same questions as I have here . I do understand real AP though its expensive, time consuming, and can be frustrating. Ive had my make every photon book for four years , ive tried to take as long as possible to make a decision on a telescope because iam an impulse buyer , but ive spent alot of my 39 years looking up , and so i want to take that up a level . I really want to do some AP but not at a serious level because truth be told I cant afford it , nor have the time . But I dont want that to hold me back to do some basic AP . I definitely wouldnt be going out buying a £800 camera to use with a dobby , but as ive already got a dslr ......... Anyway , iam going to buy my scope next week hopefully may be a sale on somewhere , i still have a ton of questions about clip in filters for light pollution and moon filters and stuff but you guys are probably tired from reading all this anyway !

Do you guys think it would be better to just get a camera phone holder and work with that for some moon and planet AP , insted of worrying about trying to attach a dslr ?

Thanks for the super quick response guys. Its the 200p on a dobsonian mount i will be getting . Already have making every photon count and turn left at Orion arrived this week so i get an idea of what i will see with the scope . Ive done some basic AP with my camera and a tripod and 10 sec shots that i was fairly happy with . I guess my issue is the confusion of how things can go together on the scope having never been hands on with one i.e can i put a barlow lens infront of my camera , is that a pain to image with , stuff like that . I was blown away with what i managed with just my camera and a tripod, and iam the type who just stands around looking up with wonder most of the time ( much to the mrs annoyance) so having a telescope is something i want to get the most out of . Sorry if that sounds a little romanticized ha

Hey guys , first post for me. So hello everyone ! My question is..... Iam getting my first telescope this xmaz , ive settled on a skywatcher 200p for various reasons . I know its not a AP telescope or so ive been told . But I have a canon 70d , and I would love to get some use out of it with the scope . The issue ive seen is focusing. So I was wondering what t rings, t adapters , extension tubes and so on will I need to achieve focus . Oh and why Iam here , is the telrad finder scope any good , I want to make the star hopping as easy as possible to impress the mrs so I can talk her into me getting a EQ5 mount in the future !