Guidance for telescope purchase
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Hi Leslie. You can borrow my SW150p free. It's on equatorial mount with tracking.? 613 858 0244
---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Andrei Osmolovski <dalikidoo@...>Date: Wed, Sept 13, 2023, 11:53 Subject: Re: [OAFs] Guidance for telescope purchase To: < [email protected]> Hi Leslie. You can borrow my SW150p free. It's on equatorial mount with tracking.? 613 858 0244
On Wed, Sept 13, 2023, 11:21 Mark Lord < oafs@...> wrote: On 2023-09-13 06:41 AM, Leslie McDiarmid wrote:
> Good morning,
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> I’m looking for some guidance.? I’m sure this question has been asked hundreds of times before however I suspect the technology changes. Right off let me say thank you for your patience.
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> I’d like to buy a telescope for my son’s family.
A really good and affordable option these days is the StarSense Explorer lineup from Celestron.
These are "push-to" mounts rather than computerized go-to but use a smartphone
to find objects and visually align and place objects within the telescope's view.
Eg.
Rather clever, and easier to use that full-on computerized go-to mounts.
Cheers
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Mark Lord
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