help

[buzzlightyear]

Can you do much photo shots with a Dobsonian Skywatcher Skyliner 200P Go To Astronomical Reflector Telescope as im thinking of changing from my 200p dob?

Thanks

[ronin]

You can do some but in realistic terms you will be heavily limited.

The mount is Alt/Az so DSO and long exposures are best considered out of it, that leaves planets - all 3 of them. You are therefore looking at webcam use not DSLR.

Also the 200P is biggish and any breeze will catch it so you could lose a fair percentage of any frames.

The reality is that visual is different to imaging, there is some overlap but not a great deal.

Problem is somone will have an image that looks good, it may be the only one however and a proper imaging rig returns a much greater number of decent images, not the occasional one.