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Re: etx 80

 

Hello Darcy,?

I, too, have an ETX80. I've had mediocre success with it. It is the backpack model, so only runs on AA batteries. I would greatly appreciate a 120V connection for it because I have kids and I'm sick of batteries. :)? My issues with it are that it has no finder scope, so you need a low power eyepiece for any starhopping (which can be done manually thankfully), and the focus knob is terrible. The best use I've found for it is as a solar scope, with a good Baader filter. The built-in sun-finder on the filter negates the lack of a finder scope (not that you'd want that much for solar anyway). I haven't tried any astrophotography with it of note...

Tim


On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 12:50 PM Darcy Whyte <darcy@...> wrote:

So I'm a total newbie and I got a Back Pack?Observatory Meade etx 80.

I'm not all that thrilled with it (perhaps I just don't know how to use it).

I'd like to learn more about using it but also explore another telescope perhaps.

I haven't gotten any joy out of the fact that it's supposed to find stuff for you. The alignment?seems to be tricky to set up. There must be some tricks I don't know about. Anyway I managed to find the moon manually of course.?

When I use a mount with my cell phone I get a lot of chromatic aberration. My plan was to stack a whole bunch of moon picks but I find the cell phone mount really fumbly to set up.On certain settings on my cell phone camera I don't get too much aberration so that's cool. I wonder if there's a different type of telescope that doesn't have so much aberration?in the first place.

I think I'm more interested in taking pictures than just looking through it so I think I need something easier to use on that front.

It has a controller, I think it'd be way cooler if it just did a bluetooth to your cell phone so you don't have to be so delicate with the cord to stop it from bouncing around...

Also by the time I get the thing set up the eyepiece is often in a bad spot. I then need to change the height which means to mess up any alignment and if I ever got the alignment right for it's navigation?system I'd have to mess it up...

My purpose is to take pictures of the moon for an art project. Also for just hacking around and general recreating looking through it... Should I try another scope?

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