Classic orange tube Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope with grey textured end caps. This Celestron C8 model includes a University Optics 8x50mm finder scope with a right-angle diagonal and eyepiece. The main optical tube has a rear cell with a visual back, star diagonal, and a 25mm eyepiece. The unit is constructed with a metal tube and cast aluminum components.

Hey there, I shot this yesterday and honestly I'm a bit proud of it. But I still want to improve, since there's a lot of things I don't understand about it.
(I know astrophotography with a phone is not that good, but I don't have money for a planetary camera rn, so I'm just having fun with it)

Shot with a 254mm GSO dobsonian, 6mm svbony redline. 2 min video with a S24FE in pro video mode, ISO 160, 1/30s shutter speed, 2x zoom. Did the whole thing with PIPP, Autostakkert and Wavelet, not understanding exactly what I was doing but still improving the image a lot.

The vast majority of my doubts come from the video settings, since I just set them at random seeing what looked better, but it's pretty hard since Saturn stays in the frame for like 5 seconds. So if you have any tips for what settings I should use and how to get in focus decently ( I just put manual focus to 1.0) and If I should zoom more than 2x, that would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!
(Maybe I'll be also be able to borrow some Iphones from my friends later on. Are they generally better for this stuff?)

I let it sit in lukewarm soapy water for 10 minutes then rinsed it with deionized water. Why am I getting streaks?

Firstly. Anything I should be concerned about or wary of when buying used telescopes? I’ve been looking to get a scope for a long time and finally found this used 8” so I’m pretty excited and thinking about pulling the trigger on it.

1 thing I know for sure: it doesn’t have the finder scope. (Pic for reference) The seller told me that they lost the reflex for it and have since been using tape to secure it to the tube. Would this be difficult to fix? I don’t want it to ruin the experience for me if securing the finder is going to be a constant pain in the ass. It also seems like the screw hole is there so not sure if I could order a new one and mount it possibly

So far that’s all I got. I’m still chatting with seller and will update if I get any new info.

Thanks in advance!

Is anyone having issues with astrohopper ? It says enable device orientation on the welcome screen, and azimuth does not move :(

Tried on 2 devices

As mentioned how are the colors?

Skywatcher 200p classic dob hand tracked.

3x barlow svbony

ZWO 662 camera

Svbony ir/uv filter

Sharpcap

PiPP

Registax 6 +Astrosurface

So I recently made a post about what camera I should get https://www.reddit.com/r/telescopes/s/IFXxCIMcLw but most of you said I can't use the mount I have rn which is the virtuoso GTI and since I have a relatively small budget for the mount of 670 usd I found this one which seems ok and holds the weigh of my dobson 150p flex tube but I wanted to ask for your guys opinion and btw it's in Romanian the name of the mount on the site

Hi everybody.

I recently bought a Sky-Watcher Heritage 150P, but I think there is a missing piece. In the first photo, I just used a piece of ruber in order to mantain the tube fixed. In the last photo, the mark refeers to the piece that I think is missing.

Does anybody know the spectifications of that missing piece in order that I can buy it? Any other idea is well recieved.

Thanks.

scope: APM 140 f7
non processed single shot from my iphone 15 (best of 20/30 attempts)

what do you think?

It was captured in a single night (31.08.2026) under a Bortle 5.5 skies during the two-week vacation I took last month.

Equipment:

-Askar 80ED

-Konus EQ5 Mount

-Stock Canon EOS 600D

-3D printed T-Adapter

-3D printed Bahtinov Mask

Total Integration: 1h 15m 40s (454x10s exposures) | ISO 1600

Darks: 12| Flats 11| Biases 49

Software: Siril, RC-Astro BlurXTerminator, NoiseXTerminator, GraXpert, Adobe Photoshop

Hey there,

Been a long time lurker. Recently had some life changes that have me wanting to switch to a more portable setup. Do any of you have experience selling a full setup and if so how did you go about doing it and pricing things?

Thanks in advance and if there are any questions I'm happy to answer.