What Telescope NOT! To Buy...
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
- If there is one time of year were telescopes are sold the most is the months leading up to Christmas, and unfortunately amongst the good there are the TERRIBLE! also known as HOBBY KILLERS... So in this video I will show you the telescopes to avoid and more importantly the ones worth spending your well earned money on.
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I got my daughter a scope very similar to one of these trash scopes. Very poor all round. Wobbly and naff. The eyepieces are 100% plastic with a field of view close to nothing. The moon looked ok. The best view we ever got was one lucky night looking at Jupiter and its moons but they were very very tiny and not well focused. Still my daughter persisted and has looked through that rubbish scope so many times. We are talking years of battling with this thing. It wasn’t a hobby killer for her. She doesn’t know it yet but her birthday gift next week is a good quality 8” dob complete with some fairly nice eyepieces. It should open up so many possibilities for what she can see.
Quite sad that your daughter persisted with this trash dumb gay telescope.
Thank you for your advice. I'm 14 and working on being an astronomer when I'm older and selecting my first telescope is kinda hard and I found your videos online. Keep doing what you do, cheers!
Hello. Your more than welcome my friend. Best of luck with your career choice :)
I am watching your channel with interest, i am not in astronomy but it helps depression to listen to you somehow.
Great to hear I'm easing your condition a little my friend. Stay positive and all the best.
Good work Jason. If only I’d seen a video like this 14 months ago. Yep! I bought a trash telescope off Amazon. Fortunately it didn’t put me off. Quite the opposite. I actually got round to writing a review on it, just this week, advising how bad it was. Wish I’d sent it back back then but thought I was getting ok views. Yeah right. Got a skywatcher Skyhawk in February and the difference was amazing. These cheap telescopes should be banned. This video should, and I hope, save people wasting they’re money. Thanks again. Great video 👌🏻👍🏻
Hello Martin, well at least it didn't put you off, that's good to hear. That's my intention to hopefully help people buying this trash and tainting our hobby.
I have bought my first Meade Infinity 70mm in a thrift store for $40.
It was without eyepieces, without rod for an azimuthal fork mount and someone played with it and wedge from focusing mechanism was inside the tube.
I fixed the focusing mechanism and your videos helped me to choose decent Plossl eyepiece and it works awesome! I did had only an hour without clouds since buying and moon looks very clear and detailed!
I started with a Celestron travel scope, one look at the moon and i was hooked. I then bought a Celestron 114 newt. I soon out grew that so i bought a Segan 6" newt. After a chat with a gentleman at work, he GAVE me an 8" Meade dob. the mirrors were totally trashed. The primary had gone pretty milky around the edges and no matter how I cleaned it, it still wasn't right. So I put on my big boy pants, stripped it all down, and sent the mirrors away for recoating. Who knew that it would cost as much, if not more than a new 8" dob!.
Anyways to cut a short story long, i now have a eq6r pro mount and an 8" edge hd. Its very easy to get hooked on this amazing past time
PS, I also converted the 8" dob to fit on my eq6 mount!
Hello Neil. Well it sounds like you've finished up with a nice little set-up... That's the problem with re-coating mirrors, in most cases you'd be better off buying a new telescope.
I’m just starting out and eager to buy a scope. I’m almost sold on an 8” Skywatcher Dob but was wondering if it would be possible to attach it onto the eq6 at some later point in time. Is it just a case of buying some rings and a dovetail for the OTA?
@@parsnipfingers I have done it! The tube on the 8" is cardboard and I couldn't find anything that would fit. So I bought 10" rings and 3d printed a whole lot of packing spacers.
I also made a lightweight spacer for a replacement to the counterweight that was in mine.
Even with the eq6 tripod as low as it can be, the eyepiece is pretty high and really unless it's on or near the horizon pretty much unusable.
@@neiltonks thank you, Neil, yes I was very pleased to find you had answered one of the questions I had. It makes it easier for me to make a purchase in the knowledge that I can upgrade to an eq6 mount and attach the Dob to it as well as other scopes if desired.
I was going to ride over to Rother Valley Optics with my wife today to talk telescopes but unfortunately she is unwell, but I have just called them.
The Skywatcher tubes are made from Aluminium and the 236mm tube rings they do are made for the 200mm scopes. They rings are made for use with either the AZ3, EQ1, EQ2, EQ3-2, EQ4, EQ5, HEQ5 and EQ6 (including PRO) mounts/mounting plates (depending on the size/weight of the tube assembly of course).
I’m impressed by your 3D printed solution. A friend of mine uses stepladders sometimes in order to reach the eyepiece (I get the impression it’s a common issue).
Thanks again for your reply, much appreciated 🙏
Celestron, Meade, Explore Scientific,and Hi-Point are some great scopes from around $100.00 to over $25,000 US dollars. I own a Celestron computerized 114 and 70mm travel scope. I have an explore Scientific 60mm travel scope and for terrestrial views I use a 50mm Tasco. They are all nice beginner scopes for sure.
I have to say this, for the first example used, you'll see those little (usually 76mm) reflector scopes everywhere for around the same price.
They're actually quite alright for what they are, a 50 bucks telescope, bought one just to see what it could do, combine it with a reasonable eyepiece and you could easily see Jupiter's moons, and some of the banding.
I've even seen people put bigger mirrors in them, seeing how the tube is actually quite roomy for what's inside.
Sure they're pretty much 'toy quality', but compared to those awful refractor toy grade telescopes from the past, quite decent, definitely less of a hobby killer for kids.
So your first two examples of telescopes to buy are the celestron 130EQ, which from what I can see is on all of the lists of telescopes to not buy (i.e. hobbykillers, there is even a subreddit not to buy this). I'm checking this as I was just gifted a 114EQ. As its not too late to send back, i'm considering having this done based on feedback, even though it is a gift.
I have just bought a 152mm (6" in old money) Bresser refractor with correct mount and tripod. It weighs a lot. I'm now in my 60s. Trip one-get out tripod, step-2 get out telescope, step-3 try and mount the bugger, step-4 have a rest, step-5 its started raing. Repeat steps 3-1 in reverse.
Good advice, I was given a 76700 with the hyugen eyepieces, exactly like the first you showed.
RVO in Rotherham sorted me out with a Sky-Watcher 130m and it’s saved my interested!
Keep up the good work!
HELLO! I REALLY APRECIATE THET YOU DID THIS VID. BECAUSE THERE ARE PEOPLE/PARENT WICH ARE BUYING VERY CHEAP TELESCOPES WITHOUT INFORMATING ABOUT THE BRAND OR INFORMATING ABOUT THE QUALITY THEY BUY A 30/300MM TELESCOPE WICH IS PRETTY BAD! THEY DONT EVEN THINK HOW MUCH THEY MISINFORMATION WILL COST ...AT LEAST THATS MY SITUATION NOW 1 YEAR AGO THEY BUYED ME A 30/300MM ”REFRACTOR” FROM AN UNKNOW BRAND AND THEN I WASNT GIVING UP (AND NOT LETING DOWN RICKROLL) AND I BUYED AAN 76/700 REFLECTOR FROM BRESSER ,IT WAS A VERY GOOD TLESCOPE BUT,IT WAS COMING WITH A DUCKIN 3X BARLOW LENS AN A 4MM LENS WICH IS TERRIBLE SO NOW I HAVE A MAKSUTOV SKYWATCHER 1500/127 WITH A 10MM EYEPIECE AND A 25 MM ONE WITH A GO TO MOUNT...PRETTY HAPPY WITH THE RESULTS
On the first telescope the immediate red flag with me is that it is mounted on the tripod, backwards.
Another thing is I absolutely agree, Huygens eyepieces are terrible. However, Huygens eyepieces have two elements. If an eyepiece has a single element (plastic) eyepiece it would be a sub-Huygens nightmare 🤣
Also, avoid eyepieces that say SR (Symmetric Ramsden).
Kellner (K) or Modified Achromat (MA, both 3 element) would in my opinion be a minimum good eyepiece. A Plössl eyepiece (4 element in 2 groups) even better and are often quite inexpensive.
I've heard from some veteran amateur, that there were quality Huygens eyepieces manufactured till the '70s with long focal lenght, and they were not THAT bad. They had nothing in common with those 0.965" mall garbage.
When I was a kid, my parents bought me a refractor (that wasn't cheap, but also wasn't good) with a fixed eyepiece, and a sliding tube to alter magnification. The moon was about the only thing you could get a decent view of.
Years later, they bought me a 4" reflector from Argos. Again, not cheap, but also not very good. When the box comes covered in photos of deep sky objects you'll never be able to see using the scope, you know it's bad.
Many years later, I bought an old but good Meade 10" SCT. Amazing scope (although I've managed to misplace the large box of gubbins I need to run it 🤦♂️).
Bought a cracking wee Meade ETX a couple of years ago, and for the money, was a cracking buy. Think it was under £300, with a solid tripod, decent optics, a few eyepieces, the Autostar controller, and all in proper transport boxes/bags. It's easy to transport, and it all hooks up to run off the laptop.
The only reason it doesn't get used as much as it should is down to work and weather. Can't do much about those 🤦♂️
Jason, I really enjoyed this video. I got a Bushnell telescope as a 10th year gift from an old employer a decade ago, and I learned at first light that I was happy I hadn't actually spent my money on it; .965 Huygens eyepieces, cheesy tripod, bend til it breaks to align "finder scope" with no optics in it, etc. So when I decided to actually get into the hobby three or four years ago, I already knew to only spend my money on quality products.
I enjoyed the video so much the first time, four or five hours earlier today, that I just watched it a second time for good measure.
Hello Christopher, great to hear you enjoyed the video, I had a lot of fun making this one, and hopefully it will help people save some money and more importantly to avoid buying hobby killers. Take care pal :)
I’ll be devils advocate. The best telescope is the one you use. I have a nice 16” a 12” and an 8”.
Well, i found an old tasco 3” reflector that the wife picked up in a yard sale years ago. I ditched the tripod and made a basic dob mount for it. Cleaned the optics, flocked the tube. Also modified the spider. The the legs were over 1/4” tick, so i just filed them down some.
Collimated it. Now i do use “nicer” celestron optics that came with one of my scopes, but nothing special. Now this little telescope sits by the door, and has got more “sky time” then the other 3 combined. Its small, easy to move around, no cooling time. And best of all, its compact and cheap enough, that i can let the kid handle it and learn on it.
This thing works surprisingly well for what it is.
Now, i would never go out of my way to buy such a telescope.
I had a cheap plastic one bought from woolworths in 1988 - i cld see Jupiters Moons with it! It was amazing - it also had a plastic 35mm thread for a SLR camera! I some how lost the telescope, can never remember the name, but it got me hooked. One could argue that workmanship/quality 40yrs ago was light years head of the rubbish today.
Hello Pinda, Yes me too that's how I got hooked. My parents bought me a 40mm Tasco very poor quality but I loved it.. :)
I think the best telescope for a beginner that wants to observe the sky and also do astrophotography is a small APO refractor doublet or triplet with a small focal length, a DSLR camera and a stable EQ mount.That is if you have a good budget.Or if you just want to observe and learn the stars just buy a good binocular 10x50 with Porro lens and an astronomy book for beginners.Reading combined with practice is the best way to step in this wonderful hobby.But that is just my opinion.A reflector with an Dobsonian mount can be the best setup for a beginner but it has to be frequently colimated so for a beginner to get into something like that can lead to losing interest.Keep up the good work.
What brands and models would you recommend for a quality telescope for a beginner that wants to observe the sky and also do astrophotography?
Your spot on there Jason.
I fell once for a crappier than crap 500x all plastic thing, and couldn't even see the sun,never mind the stars and planets.
I had set it up arse about face and then realised l was looking at the ground.
Hey Nodrog, lol! You'r not on your own pal a lot of us have been there, I started out with a crappy little 40mm Tasco.. Luckily it had the opposite effect on me and all I wanted was bigger and better :)
Last month I got a Celestron Travel Scope 80 and I was surprised by its optical quality even with its included cheap eyepieces.
Now a red flag brand: I had a Seben 114-1000 reflector several years ago, and THAT is a hobby killer. I don't recommend Seben telescopes. Cheap super low quality trash. Then I consulted with a specialist from a local observatory, and he told me to run for the hills, lol!
The Celestron TS 80 is not a pro scope, but next to Seben it's like a luxury yacht next to a trash can boat.
A few years ago my Wife chose a cheap telescope from a catalog as a work anniversary gift. It was very poor quality and very difficult to use. A year ago I convinced her to let me throw it out and buy a decent one, so I purchased a Celestron 6SE.
avoid Bird Jones designs these use a cheap lens inside the focuser tube too exaggerate the focal length..to bring it up to the stated focal length, its a terrible design, make sure the physical length of the telescope comes close to the stated focal length in MM
I own the Orion 130ST Reflector Telescope and that is a little on the higher side for beginner budget but I suggest it 👍
Night Vision telescope 🤣🤣, I love your videos and you are a nice and smart person! you inspired me to buy me first telescope which is a 8'' Dob Newtonian, Thank you for the amazing videos and keep it up!
I was able to observe Jupiter, the Galilen moons AND Saturn and its rings (all in the same view!) through a 20-ish year old Bushnell 20-45X60mm spotting scope (which I use for long range shooting) during the great conjunction a while back.
You don't need alot of scope to get started.
Just some passible optics, a steady hand, and a bit of knowledge on where to point the darned thing.
With these ebay specials im almost certain your paying more for the box and packaging than the actual scope lol.
well done mate. Loved you video and others including how to work your way through the EQ mount and polar alignment etc. Now I got game! Ta mate!
Step 1: Watch youtube video
Step 2: Join your local astronomy club
Step 3: Try the equipment of your new friends and follow their advices
Maybe buy a used telescope from one of them or even borrow one for few months if you make great coffee at night!
I bought a First Scope for my kid. The eyepieces need an upgrade for sure.
I've got that little orange telescope, except mine is white. It's useable. Throw away the Barlows.
It can see Jupiter with decent clarity. But it's best suited for moon and terrestrial.
The solar filter is a neat gimmick. The cellphone holder needs to be thrown away too.
The tripod is as much a joke as the barlows.
I was so peeved when it arrived, because I paid $77USD for it. It should be a $30 telescope you'd find at Walmart. I went to return it via Amazon, but they completely lost the order and already refunded it (thankfully). So I got my money back, and have no way to return it, so I'm stuck with it lol.
But I've played around with it, and if you forget about the gimmicky Barlows, and put it on a stronger tripod, and I'm kinda surprised what it can see.
I've since purchased a Celestron with 114aperature and 900focal, which I love.
I forgot the channel but he did video on best 100pound telescope. He had done the video before, but after he did the video the price went up. He found a new that he said was great especially for the price
Awesome Video Jason!! This is a Good Description To show new Comers To the Hobby! Also want to Point out: don't buy a Telescope from a Department store! Its Almost the Same.
Hey Avanteesh. Thank you my friend.. Yeah it is I can't believe I didn't mention that, department store telescopes do usually fall into the category of hobby killers.. Cheers buddy, take care :)
Here to see if my purchasing decision of my already purchased telescope is bad!
Got myself one of those thrash 50x360 "telescopes" just to goof around while i save enough for a meade polaris 90mm eq, i say to myself Galilleo discovered Jupiter with a even thrashier piece of crap so that'll do for now. To my suprise i was able to see Jupiter's disc with that thing. Helps with scratching the itch for a while
Antares makes new Plossl 0.965 eyepieces for those equipped scopes. I agree to avoid them in the first place.
Just keep simple .Not buying telescope below of 90mm refractor telescope and not below 1,25 inch focuser.
Celestron made its mark on the astronomy world by developing the Schmitt Cassagrain telescope , they're the finest , along with their Maksutov , avoid everything else ,
what about Celestron's other scopes?
I got the £58 telescope first. You can take out the adapter and its a 1.25" so it works with SVBony. I replaced the finder and got new 1.25" lens. It`s not too bad. I have a Celestron 130 now so all the stuff I bought for the first scope is the same. I got the Celestron second hand for £90 and it has a motor so if I had known I would of got for it first.
Same here I bought it for $50, 76mm reflector that looks the same with that photo. The focuser tube is actually 1.25" if you remove the black plastic tip. Now I'm using 1.25" 15mm plossl eyepiece and it's great. So I guess he's wrong about that.
I recently bought the celestron astromaster 130, with the motor drive, brand new, on an Amazon day sale, for £185. Before buying second hand, check for cheapest brand new offers.
I have many Celestron telescopes and I like them. Stellarvue is very good, but cost a little more.
1:24 no. But I got mine on sale it was so cheap that I thought it would be worth it even if the only good part was the tripod, which to me is pro quality compared to what I'm used to seeing. I plan on getting my "end game" telescope in a year or so, I didn't want to buy it before I had all the beginner's troubles worked out. So I got the astromaster 70az. Like I said, the tripod to me was worth it, I was amazed at how heavy it is. the 10x, 20x and star diagonal seems fine and if there's no problems with the scope then it's a win, win, I think. I did as much research as I could, not knowing anything. 😃 now I'll continue watching the video and don't say the celestron astromaster 70az! 😉
Your doing the right thing my friend by researching before buying.
@@smalloptics753 thank you! with the help of people like you, I should be ok. 😃
Great stuff as always Jason . im after an 8 inch reflector at the moment for viewing . will have a look on the bay .
Best regards Nigel 👍
Hey Nigel, thank you my friend. Happy telescope shopping :)
Is there a minimum budget for a cheap beginner telescope you recommend, below which you're better either not bothering or possibly buying binoculars instead? Would you personally buy the firstscope if you had a low budget, knowing what you know?
What to do if ever the first telescope has already been bought before looking into these video? hehehe .. is there something atleast can upgrade?
Hi Jason. Great channel. Just found it recently & now watching it all. I'm a beginner, in fact barely been out yet due to cloudy nights. I did a bad thing. Bought a telescope off of EBay not knowing the first thing (been using binocs, which my wife calls my knockers, for the past year). Anyway, just saw it and bought it because it looked nice & the mount looked good. Bad boy. Still, turns out I fluked a very good condition Skywatcher 130 with the EQ2 mount for £50. Only one eye piece though, the 25mm one. Not bothered though as I'll get some better ones, a 10mm and a barlow when money allows (made redundant a couple of months ago, now just waiting to hear if I got the job I wanted that I interviewed for a week or so ago). Anyway, bit of a fluke. I now realise how crazy it was and how little I knew when I bought it.
Hello Ben. Sorry to hear about the redundancy pal, best of luck with the job.. Well a least you got lucky with the telescope sounds like it's similar to mine, I bought mine 2nd hand for £70 that included the mount tripod and even a motor drive., so there are some bargains out there but you still have to be careful.. Btw love your your wife's name for bino's .. Might star using that XD.. Take care buddy :)
@@smalloptics753 I'm part of the second hand skywatcher 130 club. £80 with the motor drive (which had never been used). Very happy with it. Great channel Jason.
Extremely helpful thank you very much peace and love and harmony to all
Wanna hear an example of a super poorly made telescope? Well here ya go! camera tripod AKA torture device: extremely flimsy and wobbly, creaky jumpy and just not good.
Optical finderscope: is super loose and doesn't stay in alignment at all
Eyepieces: huygens eyepieces, small eye relief, and Barlow is a very long low quality one
Optics: pretty good not gonna lie.
Diagonal: only make the view blurry, forcing you to not use it
The telescope of which is a twinstar telescope, 60mm aperture 300mm focal length scope.
And I have it...
Anyone know how I can improve it and make it less of a pain to use? 😖
UPDATE: I got another telescope! a 70mm aperture and 400mm focal length refractor! And I also got a new tripod to replace the one that came with it, cause the regular tripod couldn't point all the way up, and the new one is AMAZING! I also bought a new 0.965 inch kellner 6mm eyepiece that has a higher field of view then the one that came with the scope as well! still waiting for the eyepiece to arrive, and both eyepiece and tripod should fit with the old scope as well! WEEHHOOOO!! 😁
Very useful video Jason, great for people starting out 👍🙂
Hey John, Thank you. Yes, Hopefully it will help avoid people from buying trash and getting disappointed.. Cheers pal :)
Have heard lots of good things about the sarblue maksutov cassegrain. I seen a review from it and man it was a sharp little thing. That comes with very good eye pieces. I think there like 110 dollars. American. But from what I've seen well worth it for first time buyers. And would be a good one to use with kids. It's only like 12 inches long and has a focal length of 750. Check them out.
Oh gawd the telescope titles haha "Pro night vision with space star Moon HD" what on Earth lol I'll never forget the word Huygens either because it haunts me Jason, but the HD Moon scope reflector might be even worse because even Huygens eyepieces should have 2 glass elements! It's a real shame because I see they've included a 5 piece set when they could have replaced them with a couple of cheap modified achromat eyepieces like what Sky-Watcher include for around the same price. Not amazing but much better than plastic lenses. I shouldn't laugh because it's exactly the kind of thing I was given for xmas aged 7 and it put me off until I looked through a proper telescope as a teenager. There really should be a limit to what they're allowed to sell, although I must confess at least I've not seen as many Hubble images on plastic hobby killer scopes in recent years. This is an important video, thanks for saving people :)
Hey Chris. There fantastic aren't they? The problem is people fall for all that nonsense and your right a few people have commented saying they should ban these excuses for telescopes or at least make people aware that they are at best toy's... Instead of HD Pro Moon Night vision Hubble quality scientific instruments lol.. Cheers Chris, take care buddy :)
At least they seem to have stopped including the dreaded sun filters.
NEVER SAY THAT AGAIN ABOUT MY PRECIOUS SUN EYEPIECE FILTERS (sarcasm lmao) never use them
Hello Geoffrey, yes good point, but unfortunately you can still buy the dangerous things :(
Ok. Want to know how to “safely “ use that sun filter? Stretch a bit of emergency solar blanket over your objective lens . One layer. You can use your solar filter. Use 3 and you can use your astro cam or if ballsy you can look your self. But I wear sunglasses just to be safe. Works great
Hey Jason very good advice you gave in video. Be careful what you buy. I bought a little bnise 70mm refractor from amazon UK. It was just under a hundred pound and yes I can upgrade it. The eyepieces it came with it was OK better than I bought which gives good views of the moon. Its one of those scopes that you can attach a smartphone and I tried it with samsung s7 on moon. Turned out good. Tripod wasn't that good but I've got better tripod for it.
I usually read reviews on amazon UK and not so much on CZcams.
First light optics is good only bought one garbage item from first light optics the astro essentials 90 degree polar scope which was £,69 and to be honest it was garbage at that price it should be alot better.
Sir Patrick Moore didn't like this cheap small telescopes and advised getting a good pair of binoculars instead.
Celestron did a WiFi scope but it got a bad reviews because you couldn't connect it to WiFi and your tablet.
Some good cheap ones but most aren't good. Stay safe buddy and clear skies!
Hey Bushcraft. Thank you buddy hopefully people will see this before getting very disappointed and frustrated there's a lot of con's out there...Usually I always advise people to buy bino's over a cheap telescope, I know I didn't say anything in the video because usually the bino advice falls on def ears, people just want that telescope lol ... Take care buddy :)
I have a couple of eyepieces that have a 'K' on them. Does this indicate anything important? Thanks
Jason, I have sent back the Slokey and ordered a Celestron Inspire 100ex refractor, as a beginner scope.
They
appear to get amazing reviews.
Have I made the right choice?
Remember the old adage. . .if it's too good to be true, it probably is. Buying a poor product will put you off astronomy for life!
Good beginner telescope will always include a high power 4mm eyepiece and a 3x or (even better!) a 5x barlow so you can get plenty of magnification to look at everything in heaps of detail. You will want at least 675x magnification and that should be clearly stated on the box in very large, easy to read font. If it isn't then you've got to ask yourself: why would the manufacturer want to hide such important information from their customers?! The really good ones will also have nice big colourful photos of Jupiter and Saturn, galaxies is nebulae on the box, to show you exactly what you can expect to see through the telescope. These manufacturers show that they have confidence in their products and will stand behind them 100%. Support you get with these companies is second to none... on some sort of list order anyway 😝🤡
Ya wanna know what else are hobby killers?
1. Mosquitos (Making it impossible to go outside without losing 50% of your blood supply)
2. Tons of trees (making it very hard to see certain objects)
3. Clouds (making it very hard to see certain objects)
4. Parents not allowing you to go outside at night (Self explanatory)
5. Night time animals (Animals like coyotes, raccoons, bears, ect making it dangerous to go outside)
All of which I suffer from.
Yay... Ugh
6. light pollution
@@SaneGuyFr 7. Having a telescope that's extremely hard to use
@@bunnyfan9960 8. you are too poor to afford a telescope
@@SaneGuyFr Hobby starter: small binoculars
@@bunnyfan9960 that is true but binoculars cannot resolve saturn rings and jupiter clouds and mars surface.
Price is not the only factor to consider. I have only been in the hobby a few months. My first telescope was a First Light 10" Dobsonian (61 pounds). Too heavy. So, then I bought a Celestron Omni 150mm XLT Newtonian reflector on a CG-4 mount (46 pounds). Too heavy. So, then I bought a Orion Observer 134mm Newtonian reflector on a EQ-3 motorized mount (23 pounds). So, then I bought a Bresser 102mm ED refractor and a Skywatcher AZ GTi go to mount (14.5 pounds). Nice. Sadly, I have a room full of telescopes and accessories and owe the credit card company about ($3,500).
Cool video! I have bought a Vultus 50080, is this good ?
Huygens eyepieces are the absolute worst of all. Considering that they were invented by Dutch astronomer Christian Huygens way back in the 17th century, it is a wonder to me that they are still being manufactured let alone used by anyone.
I buy my scopes from Orion telescopes
and meade (Orion) owns meade
I used to say you won't go wrong with Celestron, Meade, or Orion. But, they make junk, too. The Astromaster 130 my friend's kid got for Christmas a couple years ago is junk. Apparently has a spherical primary, came out of the box with the secondary loose and almost fell off, the dec setting circle is off by about 2.3°, so its completely useless and the whole thing vibrates so badly when focusing or tracking, that its near impossible to use. I was so disappointed and just didn't have it in me to tell them. I did what I could with it and give them a couple of my own favorite eyepieces and collimator.
On another note, I bought a Meade 4500 in the early 90s and it was really nice. The mirrors finally deteriorated, so I replaced them with some from a newer model and of course, spherical junk that deteriorated in no time. No doubt all these budget model optics come from the same Chinese manufacturer, no matter what brand they slap on them. So, last time I refurbished my 4.5, I just bought a new spherical primary/secondary set off ebay for $20 and cant tell the difference. Just couldn't spend $150 on a parabolic 4.5.
I think these days, the best way to go budget, is a refractor. I got a Celestron Travel 60 used for $25 and while the tripod is completely awful, I was shocked at the usefulness of the scope. Theres some chromatic aberration, but the image is sharp and clear and I can see Saturn's rings and Jupiter's spot, with a 8mm plossl. With my 32mm its just stars and stars. I still need to find an appropriate mount for it, but $25 just for the OTA was well worth it.
It would be nice to have actual picture or render to show you how bad the image your new gear will provide you!
For low budget, this is not a great selling point!
What is your opinion on the celestron starsense explorers? Trash or not?
Thanks to you got a real telephone how is cvs
Thank you for advice you save me
Just bought a Celestron Powerseeker 127 EQ. It has some good features and other beginners seem to like them but they do have those eye pieces with the H but they seem to be a newer version. Is this alright for a beginner?
For those wondering, the telescope was absolute garbage. I returned it and got something else which I am much happier with
Hi Jason, though I didn't come looking for this video, it was nice to watch. I'm resisting the urge to blather on and on about my own experience as a novice. But I will say, I couldn't help thinking of analogous comparisons of these telescopes..such as guns...as in water pistols, cap guns, pellet guns and actual hand guns. I would like to believe my lil celestron powerseeker 127eq is at least a pellet gun..minus a co2 cartrige(poor eq mount), a floating barrel( flimsy finder scope), and only 10 pellets out of a box of 2000(stock starter eye pieces)...I'd like to up grade and tweak some stuff. I have taken in enough information to know what to look for. But call me lazy but I want to see someone like you to show me the best and worst options available...case/ telescope specific ...of course lol...but seeing as your in the field and might benefit from producing such content..I'd thought this might be the right place to share that idea....perhaps you could get sponsored for pushing upgrades...unless in my case celestron thoroughly believes in the buy once cry once adage...and refuses to cater to the oblivious potential consumer #listenupcelestron...whatch think..I don't even know what I just said by the end of this typing in a tiny window on my phone...at any rate keep up the good work...I subscribed to your channel because of your apparent sincerity....you should be a much bigger channel..but how big is the astronomy community....lots of respect from nova scotia ;)
Hello Pete, Thank you for your kind words, great analogy and food for thought :)
theres a hard C in aCcessories and the word should be pronounced AK SES OREES
You know you're buying a lightly used second hand telescope when the advert pic shows it setup upside down hehe :)
Ha ha ha, I know right.. I posted that pic on facebook and got some great comments ranging from "But that's were stellarium say's the moon is"...To ..."The wife's checking he's cleaned the skirting board correctly." Lol..
Are Free Solider Telescopes any good?
Even good quality Huyghenian eyepieces have a problem which is that they have poor eye relief. In other words your eye is going to be very close to the eyepiece to look through it. This can be uncomfortable and you may only be able to see your eyelashes. It is that close. So even 1.25" size H eyepieces are not a good buy for the beginner. It is even worse for the .965 ones. The other thing that can cause disappointment is the low resolution. The bigger the objective lens or the mirror the better the resolution and the more you will see. I feel that 90mm is about the minimum to be worthwhile to give views of the cloud belts on Jupiter and the rings of Saturn. Where they talk about magnification trash scopes talk about things like 500x magnification. The magnification in limited by the aperture (the size of the mirror or objective) a rule of thumb is 2 times the diameter of the lens or mirror in mm at most. In real life conditions it can be a lot worse. To work out the magnification divide the focal length of the eyepiece into the focal length of the telescope. So an 8mm eyepiece on a scope with a 800mm focal length gives a maximum 100 times magnification. On such a scope with a 1 inch objective that magnification is about 4x the useable magnification and the images will be rubbish. Many of the H eyepieces have short focal lengths (4mm, 6mm) and so can quickly get beyond the useful range for the scope you are using. Avoid them.
why Pro? Galileo wish to have these telescopes. Some glass H 16 H20 are good for planets or SR eyepieces even better than coated Plossl, Meade 2000 MA eyepieces surpasses many eyepieces.
binoculars are good for kids at first and then if they go out looking every night you know they love the sky and can buy something more expensive for them
So if the eye piece has a single lens it’s junk? Or a lens that’s a single layer.
Hello Bob, in a word, yes. The minimum amount of lenses is two and really expensive eyepieces can have as many as 7 elements in them.
@@smalloptics753 thanks for your reply I appreciate you
What a timing lol
I was gonna buy too
Tnx for the video
Glad to have saved you the heartache my friend :)
No it’s a SR eyepieces worst than Huygens
Rain/Snow soon... You don't whant to see that in your forecast!
i agree this vid Soooo much.
Hi like to know is Uscamel telescope are good buy.
Love ur channel am new to astronomy got a 10” dobsonian. And u name it I got it book etc. I know am not the brightest cookie in the jar. Just starting to not enjoying it. Could u do another Stellarium app CZcams with the best setting
Ah thank you David, Funny you should say that, I am working on a beginners guide to the downloaded version of Stellarium so stay tuned for that, as for the app I will be doing more on that at some point... I definitely make a note of it pal :)
@@smalloptics753 thank u for answer.
is national geographic bresser 60/700 telescope good
No!
Hi Jason really enjoy your channel and ive learnt some interesting facts and information.
Iam a newbie and looking to purchase a 6" Stella Lyra dobsonian scope which has a lengh of 1200mm.
Please advise what lengh eye pieces your would recommend for most types of viewing
I know a 15mm is a favourite of yours.
All advice gratefully received regards Paul
Hello Paul, great to hear you are enjoying my channel. Well you've took the words out of my mouth with the 15 mm lol, but when it comes to eyepieces all of them no matter what power or make will work with any type/size of telescope. But , with longer focal length telescopes (such as yours) It's always a good idea to look for eyepieces with wide of view 60 degrees or above because longer the focal length of a telescope the narrower the f.o.v will be... A good budget choice is the Svbony aspheric range. Take care pal, happy telescope buying :)
2'' 40mm 72afov will be good for low power.
For other Power range I have 18 / 10 / 6 mm as a good reference of eyepieces for that focal length.
Please make a video about celestron skymaster astro binocular
If I lay my hands on some I definitely will my friend :)
glad i didnt get one of these!
ebay sketchy .... never know ... AMAZON much more reliable...
If a fat fly lands on it it wobbles all over the place!
should i buy SCTW 80 celestron as my first telescope?
Hello Eliza sorry for the late reply.. Yes.. They are great little telescopes you certainly could do a lot worse :)
A telescope I'd say not to get is any cinda of first scope so any 76mm table top ones or even the meade 82mm there useless for anything other then the moon and to be honest there not brilliant at that the skywatcher 100mm table top scope is very good if that is the way u wanted go and isn't that much money 😉good luck to anyone who wants there first scope 🤣 iv got 5 now and still don't no what I want 🤣
I actuall bought that first telescope you showed a year ago and its absolute trash. The telescope was so light that even touching it slightly will shake like hell. Tripod is trash, telescoe is trash and the eyepiece is pure garbage. The views of the telescope is blurry even the stars look like comets through the eyepiece, Id be better off using my eyes to stargaze than a garbage telescope. I cant even collimate the telescope properly, i mean actually its impossible to collimate the telescope since the focuser is not even alligned to the secondary mirror properly.Everything is just a nightmare. Luckily that didnt ruin my interest to astronomy. After almost a year, I bought a new and better telescope (Celestron Powerseeker 114eq) and it was life changing. The views of the telescope was so different to the other trash telescope even if the mirror just changed 1.5 inch in size since the other telescope has a 3 inch (76mm) aperture. Hopefully no one will experience what I experience because that telescope is a big frustration to me. Happy stargazing to everyone!
Sus. You're so weak. I even manage to take a photo of Saturn with that 76mm 700mm focal length $50 reflector telescope. The problem is not the telescope, probably the user. Even Galileo manage to discover Jupiter's moon using
Pro telescope for moon in HD or 4k 😂😂😂