And here it is, my 8" dob

[Astro-Nova]

Arrived today. Put it together in no time and Ill be darn.....clear skies!!!! Took it out straight away and fired upon the moon....

Rather frustrating as blumming Mars was lurking above the moon and I do not have the equipment yet to get a proper image of it, only standard 25mm and 10mm EP. Plus I got to align the finder scope with the 8" so I gotta get that sorted but an amazing trial run and very very amazed!! Even took a chance to take a few shots placing my phone against the eyepiece lol I was way too excited!

[bigbox]

Congratulations on the new scope & not bad pics for a phone.

Regards Ady

[paul schofield]

Nice.......great bit of kit. The same thing happened to me when I got my 200p, clear sky first night, but then and I hope it does not happen to you, I had clouds for the next month. Happy gazing & continued clear skies.

[knobby]

Man you look proud !

[Vince1963]

great scope astro-nova, they're really good pictures with your phone. Hope mine will be as good when i get a scope. using binoculars for now not great but better than nothing lol. Vince

[knobby]

I took this picture by holding binoculars against my HTC Leo lens, took a few goes but quite pleased ..

[knobby]

Naaa, not really !

D300 attached by 2 x barlow and t ring

sorry ! thought it would make you snigger a little and see what you can do with a Dob

[wired2moon]

Ah yes, didn't you fund this scope by selling stuff on eBay? Well done mate, delighted to see you got the Skyliner at last! I did the same thing - all my stuff has been auctioned off and the funds are in the bank... but now just, when i'm ready to buy one, everywhere is sold out of Skyliner 200P's (possibly until April)!! Ah well, patience is a virtue I guess. Enjoy!

[knobby]

possibilities

SkyWatcher Skyliner 200P Classic Telescopio comprar a Telescopios.eu

Skywatcher Skyliner-200P Dobsonian Telescope 10717 (018802)

Skyliner 200P 8" Parabolic Dobsonian Telescope

[Astro-Nova]

Thank you all for the nice comments and sarcy ones lol always nice to joke a lil!!!

Could not believe I was able to take quite nice shots with my phone.

And am very proud of me scope

Yes Zero-G have got no possessions left apart from my telescope thanks to ebay haha. There are lots of 8" dobs on the net for sale. ranging from 270.00 to 285.00. Had mine from scopes 'n skies. Should be able to find them following the links people send on this forum, I just googled it and collected as many sites as possible and compared the lot.

[wired2moon]

possibilities

SkyWatcher Skyliner 200P Classic Telescopio comprar a Telescopios.eu

Skywatcher Skyliner-200P Dobsonian Telescope 10717 (018802)

Skyliner 200P 8" Parabolic Dobsonian Telescope

Cheers knobby I took someone's word for it, that'll teach me!

[knobby]

They are low stock ... some places only have 1 left !

[kernowstargazer]

Well done mate you look happy as a pig in poo . Nice pics of the moon its amazing what you achieve with these scopes. I got a SW150p dob a few weeks back. You wait until you see jupiter and saturn through it you will be jumping round the garden on a high all your neighbours will think your mental.

[Astro-Nova]

You wait until you see jupiter and saturn through it you will be jumping round the garden on a high all your neighbours will think your mental.

Oh man I can not wait for that, Will try when I got my finder aligned with the scope first, but I have no barlow or any low diameter EP's yet

Unless u tell me different but I assume Jupiter and all that will have to wait till I add some better equipment to the scope

lol pig in poo.....I like that saying

[knobby]

My neighbours think i'm mental ...

[kernowstargazer]

Ive only got the same EPS as you the 25mm and the 10mm that came with the scope jupiter and saturn can be seen with the 10mm and you will be amazed at the detail with that EP so if you throw a 2x barlow into the mix and WOW i cant wait until i get a 2x barlow.

[Astro-Nova]

Awesome, I will try that without barlow first for sure!! (simply cause I cant afford one yet)

Thanks, I will have a go when it is clear skies again (tomorrow?)

[Tribal-Wolf]

Hey don't mock taking pics with a phone, this was done with a Samsung Galaxy Ace through an 8mm EP on my dob

Moon

[Astro-Nova]

Done mine with Nokia X6, using 25mm and 10mm. All I got so Ive made the most of it lol, who says astro-photography has to be expensive?

Yo, thats a wicked photo!

[kernowstargazer]

I did this tonight with a cheapo HD vid camera from argos and touched it up in a free program called fast viewer

[Nexus 6]

Looks like you had a decent night to test it out.

Hope you get some great sights using it.

[Bennink]

Wow nice pictures allready! You just held your phone against the eyepiece? That's amazing. I'm going to try my DLSR as soon as the skies are clear and can use my motor system (need a battery pack still).

[Bennink]

Nice cat btw

Here's a tip: don't let it climb into the tube when stored Mine tried, but didn't succeed luckily. The hairs can be cleaned i guess, but the nails... No the nails on the mirror !!!

[182570]

If you do get a barlow,I would recommend the TALX2 from FLO the optics are excellent for 36 pounds:)

[dtr42]

nice scope [same as mine ] have the skywatcher barlow and tbh i ain't used it much [have the skywatcher 7-21mm zoom and thats not to bad] i am going to buy this next payday Revelation Photo Visual Eyepiece and Filter Kit as it seems to get good write up and iif/when i do i will probably sell the zoom lens [got it for free from bloke i bought scope from ]