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15 Oct 20, 01:15 PM |
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Telescopes & Drones
Hi everyone,
I hope you are all keeping well. Its Santa time. Im looking for recommendations on a good astrophotography Telescope. The one i see mentioned alot is the Celestron Astromaster 130EQ. Can anyone recommend a good one that you can see stars, planets, solar system, clusters etc that you can also attach your DSLR cameras, connect to a laptop or connect phone to etc. Also on the look out for a Drone. Something that takes good quality videos and images with a good air time battery. My budget would be about 400-500 each for both. Any night sky & drone hobbyists here that could help with this, would be greatly appreciated. Thanks x |
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15 Oct 20, 01:44 PM |
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Imagineer
Join Date: May 10
Location: notts
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for that sort of budget, i'd go for the dji mavic mini with the fly more bundle (extra battery/spares) and the insurance thing (~£30 a year, but they replace it if it gets lost or gets trashed - seems like a small price to pay for peace of mind)
you can get it for around £400 on special offer, set up an alert on hotukdeals cant say about telescopes though, but definitely get one you can attach a camera to. and if budget allows, one that is motorised so that it can track the stars for ultra long exposures Edited at 01:52 PM. |
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15 Oct 20, 01:53 PM |
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Join Date: Aug 14
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dont know much about telescopes
but as above def go for a motor drive one tha tracks whatever you are looking at we bought our daughter a celestron (can recall model) basic scope and whilst she had great fun with it was a pita to get it all setup & focused only for the eath to rotate.. |
15 Oct 20, 01:58 PM |
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I have the Skywatcher 130p synscan AZ GOTO. It was recommended to me by somebody in an astronomy club I was connected to and has good reviews. Here is one.
It is excellent once it is set up, but as a beginner I found it quite hard to set up, I need to set it up each time I use it not as a one off. (But it is supposed to be good for beginners). My problem was that it requires a triangulation, the first two objects were always fine as I could pick a couple of stars or a planet I am sure about, but then it would instruct me to find a particular third object which sometimes could be quite obscure and hard for me to identify. I got a second telescope at one time for when I was feeling too lazy to set this one up. That was a Celestron, but a fairly basic “point and shoot” one. Edited at 02:03 PM. |
15 Oct 20, 02:06 PM |
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Join Date: May 03
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I hope you don't mind me saying that this made me chuckle imagining the below:
You: Right, there we go - all setup - take a look! Daughter: Oh no. You: What's wrong? Daughter: It's the Earth - it's only gone and rotated. You: Gggggrrrrrr! |
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15 Oct 20, 02:58 PM |
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15 Oct 20, 06:55 PM |
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Thanks everyone for your recommendations. Will be checking those out.
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