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Tough problem. I'm not sure any non-toy telescope is appropriate for a 6-year old. Anyone have enough experience with this one to recommend

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Very nice! Richard ?

I have an old Canon Rebel XS, the 1000D I think, and no mention of a port for that one. Things may be moving on the Fuji front, but it isn't magic lantern. Things about firmware, scripting, and a

That's great. I'm impressed you got the point and shoot to work on the adapter, lots of people have struggled with those to be able to get the picture in focus without the AF messing things up. :) I

I am already aware of the quality of imagers here, but they also serve as inspiration. Kinda why I got into moon pics :). I have never shot video through a telescope and processed images from them. I

I was out for two hours closer to dawn (with a couple of breaks) and saw 70 meteors in 85 minutes. Most of the Geminids were mag 2 and better, the sporadics were mostly fainter ~mag 4. I saw one

The radiant is quite high now. And it's clear. (How unlikely). The metors are quite bright. Easily visible from my light-polluted sky in west ottawa. The transparency is forecast to get worse around

Thanks for this suggestion! It's my second time borrowing this scope, but I didn't collimate it the first time. Thanks to your email, I learned a lot about collimation. Unfortunately I didn't have the

Thanks all. We went to the parking lot of the ag museum (across from arboretum) around 6:30 and had a clear view of the moon. (I suspect we would've had a good view of Jupiter, but the clouds didn't

I was tobogganing with my kids at the dominion arboretum this afternoon. Clear views of the moon, jupiter and Venus around 4:45pm. The parking lot is open all night. It's not super dark but it's

Natalka – Also, if this is your first time, you should set up your telescope inside and just try pointing it things outside the window – so you can learn how to use it. One thing is to align the

Natalka – Not to worry: try your porch or driveway. I too live downtown and have no problem viewing Jupiter and Saturn. By far, the limiting factors (in descending order) are cloudy nights (way

To clarify - I live right downtown, and the city has put in the new extremely bright led lights all around me. I can barely see Orion’s belt from my driveway when it’s up, and the horizon is

Thank you Attila! Is there a site you would suggest for planet observation tonight? Natalka

Hi Natalka, With a new scope you are better off observing the moon and planets from your driveway. These objects don't require a darker site. Cheers, Albert. wrote:

Morning – If all you want to do, which is always a good place to start, is view the major planets and moon, there is no need to go to a dark site. Viewing from your driveway or porch will be fine

Is Beckwith park still good? https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Beckwith+Park/@45.1182861,-76.088044,17z/d ata=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x4cd20be8a9b2a0f1:0xa5474578 Namaste, tOM Trottier On Saturday,

Greetings Natalka, Welcome to OAFs. Sad to say the Mill of Kintail is not currently a good observing spot. The parking lot has a streetlight. The rest of the park is dark but there is a locked gate

Hello OAFs! New member here. I have a 1-week loan of a telescope (an Orion StarBlast II 4.5 EQ Reflector from the OPL) and want to bring some kids out to look at planets tomorrow, if the skies are