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Do you like to use a Telescope?

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I'd like to get myself a really good telescope within a $500 price range, and the Meade ETX-90EC caught my attention. After reading some reviews about it, the general consensus seemed to be that for the money it's a very good scope. Now I know about computers and cars, but telescopes are still unchartered territory for me. Are any of you here into astronomy? Can anyone tell me about the ETX 90? I also want to attach a camera to the scope to take pictures. Will that be possible with this scope?

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i bought a telescope and i couldnt get it focused on anything i kinda gave up on it! i d like to hear from other people their succs or failures using one.
 
never had one, always lived in the city, so I guess I wouldn't be able to see anything anyways.
 
if you have read some of the beginners guide for astrnomy...you will notice that they all say the same thing...
start with a good pair of binocular (7x 50 or 10 x 50) instead...learn how to spot the stars...constellation...and gather some experience from there...
you see...poor guy like me who's into astronomy ... obviously have to take this path .... 🙂

 


<< never had one, always lived in the city, so I guess I wouldn't be able to see anything anyways. >>


WHen I lived in the city, there was this really hot woman who lived across the street. She left her windows open all the time, and sometimes, at night, you could see
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her using her telescope.
 
Nah, that applies only to the general consumer, the same one who bought a Dell because that kid told them too. I'm more of a start with the best kind of guy. The ETX-90EC is computer controlled, so you align it with a compass and input your latitude, then the computer will find and track stuff in the sky...but you need to buy the computer seperately. It's not that much more, but I'll probably wing it. It's not that hard to find stuff if you really want to.







<< if you have read some of the beginners guide for astrnomy...you will notice that they all say the same thing...
start with a good pair of binocular (7x 50 or 10 x 50) instead...learn how to spot the stars...constellation...and gather some experience from there...
you see...poor guy like me who's into astronomy ... obviously have to take this path .... 🙂 >>

 
<< never had one, always lived in the city, so I guess I wouldn't be able to see anything anyways. >>


WHen I lived in the city, there was this really hot woman who lived across the street. She left her windows open all the time, and sometimes, at night, you could see
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her using her telescope.

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With a decent scope, you'd probably be able to see the moon at least, but also Jupiter and some of its moons. I don't know if you could see saturn...but man, this is really neat. It's like, you can look at other planets whenever you feel like it (and it is night, and not cloudy). I live in the city too, and my uncle had a newtonian scope. I remember being able to see craters on the moon and even saturn's rings. It's just awesome.

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<< never had one, always lived in the city, so I guess I wouldn't be able to see anything anyways. >>

 
someone bought a telescope for me. i tried to get into astronomy but really what turned me off is that most commercial telescopes are only useful for seeing very nearby stuff (is what I was told) and even that it was a pain to get it all working and such.
 
I read reviews at Amazon.com, as well as a few independent sites dedicated to scopes.

http://www.scopereviews.com/

Do a web search for "telescope reviews" and you should get a bunch of hits.

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<< Yeha I am thinking about getting the same one, where did you read reviews on it? >>

 
Well, as a general rule of thumb, if you got one of those sub-$300 cheapo scopes from a toy store, HSN/QVC, or one of them science stores, then you're probably not going to have decent optics and whatever you look at will always be discolored/distorted. The ETX90 is a $500 scope, while far from being the best, it is very compact and easy to manage and has very high-quality optics that rival those used in some of the really expensive scopes...so you don't have to lug a huge scope around, nor do you have to sacrifice quality. With a good tripod and a little patience, you'd see quite a bit with the ETX90. If you live in a city, the light pollution limits your range to see anything, but if you were to take a trip up to a remote area away from the city, then you could see even more by using a higher powered eyepiece.

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<< someone bought a telescope for me. i tried to get into astronomy but really what turned me off is that most commercial telescopes are only useful for seeing very nearby stuff (is what I was told) and even that it was a pain to get it all working and such. >>

 
I have a couple of pretty good scopes, the latest being a 14" Dobsonian that I built, dont like the mount very good but good for deep sky stuff. If I were to purchase a scope I would look around for a good used Celestron 8 or 10 inch Maksutof (kind of folded focus thing. and probably spelled it wrong) You really have to have some good equipment drivewise to take good pix of deep sky objects and really FAST film. If you are really serious go to the library and look at the last 4 or 5 issues of sky and telescope. You should be able to get a good used celestron with all the drive stuff and extra eyepieces for aroung 800 to 1000 bucks and worth every dime. The scope mount, tripod-whatever is all important it has to be extremely sturdy and not subject to vibration from the wind or focusing.
Get the best you can afford you will not be sorry, get the largest lens/mirror with the longest focal length that you can carry around, it is a great hobby except all the good stuff is only visible in the winter in the Northern Hemisphere.
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<<never had one, always lived in the city, so I guess I wouldn't be able to see anything anyways>>

I thought thats where most telescopes are being used 😉
 
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