![]() But I am always learning and testing new techniques because once you get past the initial learning curve, the images you can capture are amazing and rewarding. I have learned a lot (and made many mistakes) along the way. Things have progressed since those camping nights, and so has my experience with capturing the night sky. I would try and take pictures of them with our point and click camera, but usually, the images would come out just about black. On a clear night and away from the city lights, I would look up at the sky and always be fascinated at the large cluster of shining stars deep in the sky. It was our traditional yearly pilgrimage. You can find images taken with this scope here.When I was a teenager, every year without fail, we would go on our family camping trip. This can be a pro or a con depending on your intended use of the scope, but it is definitely a good option. The only difference with this one is that there is a helical focuser like a camera lens instead of a crayford telescope focuser. The redcat 51 is alot like the FRA300, it is a litter smaller with almost identical specs. You can find images taken with this telescope here. ![]() This thing is really lightweight, and will be very simple for learning how to autoguide, polar align, and all the other strenuous technical things with using a telescope. This is the Asker FRA300 which is an extremely short focal length quintuplet refractor quoting a full frame image circle. If you're inexperienced and looking for a telescope that is going to be very simple to use, and not give you any major problems, this is a good option. Here are five scopes ordered by what’s in stock: I will be covering these shortly as well. So please budget in a mount to your setup. Also, you NEED A MOUNT for all of these telescopes to work. ![]() The ‘zoom’ in your telescope is not everything when it comes to deep sky astrophotography. The other important thing to keep in mind is that the more focal length in your telescope, the more difficult it is to use. Taking all this into consideration, I am going to be keeping my recommendation list to refractors only, since I am keeping beginners in mind. They are great for experienced users, but not so much fun starting out. They have very long focal lengths, are slow, and have their own mechanical/optical problems like the newtonian. Most consumer cassegrains are SCT’s or Schmidt cassegrains which use a corrector plate to hold the secondary mirror at the front of the scope. For a beginner this isn't ideal, but for an experienced user it may be worth it for the benefits listed above.Ĭassegrains also use mirrors to collect and focus light, but instead of shooting light out of the side of the scope, it goes out of the back through a hole in the primary mirror. They are difficult to balance, difficult to collimate, and are just harder to use compared to a refractor. The problem is consumer newt astrographs usually have poor mechanical design. What these telescopes offer are large aperture and fast light collecting ability at a low price. The secondary mirror is tilted 45 degrees from the primary to shoot light out to the side of the instrument. They have a primary mirror, secondary mirror, and usually a corrector element at the focuser. ![]() Newtonian reflectors are a type of telescope which uses mirrors to focus light down to a point. You will not need to worry about collimation, tip-tilt adjustment, or other major optical challenges. The huge advantage they offer over all other types of scope are their ease of use. Refractors use sets of lenses to refract light down to a focus point, exactly like a regular camera lens. Refractors are the best choice for beginner astrophotographers by far.
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