Pitch Black Skies

Nothing bad about that set up 🙂

For his age, I would second the smartphone bracket. He can show his pictures to his friends. Also, "Turn Left at Orion" is a must. The "David Chandler Night Reader Pro LED Torch" is pretty cool too. You could even send FLO a quick email, they are very helpful. Clear Skies, Alan

That's normal. Did you get a chance to point the scope vertical and inspect after collimating horizontal? It's possible you are unaffected, but for me it was a noticeable difference. I noticed that the primary kept tilting forward at horizontal. I was unknowingly collimating in this position and as soon I pointed the scope up, all was lost. I only discovered this recently. I then made the silly mistake of clamping the primary down with the clips, until I discovered they should be at least a business card's width of a gap.

Looks perfect

Quite possibly.

It's not mine, but was caused by an Allen key apparently. Always err on the side of caution..

I never do this, the reason being is that once my telescope is pointed vertically, I notice the primary mirror tilts back and sits flush in it's clips, and then collimation is off. I always have it at around 45°. The clips should never be tight holding the primary mirror down. They are just designed to just prevent it from falling out, so they should have a little play. As an experiment, collimate the telescope horizontally, then slew it vertically and see if collimation holds by testing with the collimation cap. If it does hold, inspect the primary mirror clips to ensure they are not clamping down the primary mirror resulting in pinched optics which is just as bad if not worse than poor collimation. The only thing to be careful of with this method is the risk of dropping something down the tube! Regards, Alan

Welcome Tevin!

4 individual eyepieces. 1 for low power 1 for medium power 1 for high power & 1 for v.high power Simples.

Welcome John, good to have you with us

Hi Nick, welcome to the group 🙂

Welcome to SGL 🌠

Little 10"?! 😭 😄😄😄

Welcome to SGL Adam

Welcome to SGL 🌠

That is absolutely stunning! I don't know where, but I've seen this before..

Update Got the BST Starguiders and very pleased with them 🙂 Now I just have to buy the rest of them 😔 😁

Awesome set! Clever idea to just compress the cubes too.

Cool, how do you tell them apart though?

It's funny you mention that because on the 16mm Nirvana I wasn't able to rest my eye socket on the fully raised eye cup at all without having problems. It had to hover a millimetre or two over it to be usable and even then, that was excessively restricting the FOV. In regards to the solid eye cup design with the BST, I can find the right eye relief distance, twist the cup up to it, and then just rest my face on it with as much pressure as I want and it doesn't budge. On the other hand, I do have a 32mm Panaview 70° which has the soft cup and it's nice to use.

That's right 60° FOV, much more pleasing to my eyes.

Would love to see a picture of it 😄 I'm planning on using it for Starguiders too.

So I've just compared the 16mm Nirvana to a 15mm Starguider that I have just received and can confirm that the latter is much more pleasant, at least on my eyes anyway. 🙂

Cheers wulwrun. Can you send me a link to the ones on FLO? I can't find any blank ones, just empty ones that are pre-cut for intended sets. Found one on eBay but looks a bit cheap https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/233484293126 I think waterproof is the way to go.