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Are Cheap Smart Telescopes Any Good?

In early February 2025 six planets line up over my London roof, the night is clear, the atmosphere is beautifully calm and the Beast, my giant 16-inch Newtonian telescope, is ready to pounce!

Best Telescope for Christmas 2024 Your first telescope has to be able to capture the nerdmaking moment when you see Jupiter or Saturn floating in a vast sea of blackness and you realise for the first time that we on earth are floating in the vast sea of b…

My New Widefield Travel Rig I’m excited about modern widefield travel rigs because they potentially have the power to reveal the Orion Spur – the mini spiral arm which we belong to – something that I’ve never seen, but I think in order to do that I’ll pro…

20% off Betty’s limited edition print of the horsehead – Time running – neigh galloping out (sorry)!

My New Favourite mount: ZWO AM5 The best astrophotography mount on the market: powerful, portable and accurate.

The video is basically me looking through a giant C14 HD edge telescope on the few nights that were good last year… and I have to say it was pretty awesome.

You can watch the basic section of this video for free on youtube and you will gain a good understanding of how to collimate a Newtonian telescope.

You can watch the basic section of this video for free on youtube which will anwser the question posed in the title:This advanced video goes far beyond explaining how to choose your ISO/Gain and exposure length when taking deep space photos.

Probably the best little telescope in the world (and I drop it😱TWICE!)