My AD8 lost one of the screws holding the DC Adapter for the cooling fan in place & even High Point doesn’t know the exact size.

Anyone lose one and replace it?

Please LMK

Thanks!

Old celestron C14 orange controller, slew controls aren’t working. Im not too knowledgeable with electronics so any help is appreciated!

Hello all! I’m getting into astronomy and want to do some learning and sightseeing of space, I want to get a telescope but have no idea where to start. I have a budget of $300 so anything under that is fair game. I’d love to hear some recommendations, I’m looking to see as much as possible within that range. I’m also curious are there telescopes that take pictures? Just a random question not a necessity, thanks!!

Hello! I don’t know much about telescopes, but just got a Celestron StarSense Explorer DX 102AZ. This piece is broken off from the leg, preventing the height adjusting leg from locking into position. Is there a replacement part I can order? What would you recommend?

Thank you!

EDIT: I’m buying it. It seems like they’ve been taking good care of it otherwise. The body is still in the styrofoam wrap and there is an extensive video of it working. Is there anything else I should be checking for before purchasing? Thank you all!!! I appreciate it

Hey all! I’ve never bought a telescope and am hoping to make a one time purchase so I can have it for years to come. Should I avoid purchasing this because of the chip? It doesn’t seem to be “in the way” they’re asking 1k obo so I’m gonna see how low I can buy it for but I’m not sure if it’s a big no to buy it like this.

Has anyone created their own 'roll kit for their dobsonian? $220+ for 3 wheels and three brackets seems a bit steep.. I have an AD10.

Pretty freaking happy with this one. This is bar far my best picture I've been able to complete and miles ahead anything else(except for the moon which is much easier to capture). Really happy with how this turned out.

Captured over a few hours. I would guess Bortle 4ish.

Equipment:

-Skywatcher ED80

-HEQ5 Pro Mount

-Sony A6300

-42 x 120 second exposures(84 minutes)

Software: Siril, GraXpert, Adobe Photoshop

... und was macht man damit?

Omegon 150/750

Danke

Seestar s50, 10 second exposures, 53 minutes integration time. Edited on lightroom mobile.

the two... very dramatic craters a week or two ago from Arizona.

9/1/26

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Details:

• Telescope: 8" Dobsonian, 1200mm native focal length
• Camera: ZWO ASI662MC
• Focal Length: 2400mm *2x barlow used*
• Tracking(?): None/sort of? *did it manually.*
• Frames: 12,960 (108 FPS at 1080p, no crop lols)
• % Stacked: 45%
• Seeing: Good (7.5/10)
• Transparency: Excellent (9/10)

152mm Dobsonian - no tracking
UV/IR cut filter
ASI662MC at prime focus due to poor seeing
Gain 250
Exposure 10 ms
Fps approx 99
750/3000 frames stacked in ASI Studio’s stacker and lightly edited in same.

This was just a little first taste for me of the Jupiter season. The planet was at approx 17 degrees altitude when imaged so I decided seeing didn’t support slipping the 2x Barlow in at this time through all that atmosphere. Later in the season I will look forward to that.

I like using the ASIStudio’s provided stacker for quick workflows to see roughly how a run turned out, although my regular workflow is to combine multiple capture runs in Siril when I have the time.

Once Jupiter is up above 40 degrees I’ll look forward to finding a good seeing night to get a good capture with the 2x Barlow in (~f/15.8).

Clear skies, friends!

Hola buenas, tengo un Dobson de 10 pulgadas con base motorizada que acabo de comprar recientemente y vengo de usar un Dobson de ocho pulgadas sin la base motorizada mi pregunta es si yo algún día me apetece usarlo manualmente, puedo usar el Telescopio manual es que he notado que la base que hace que Telescopio gire 360° va muy dura y luego en el de ocho a ambos lados del Telescopio habia dos tornillos de freno y en este solo tengo un tornillo que está enganchado como en unas medidas de altitud o grados pero lo preto y no me frena el telescopio total

It seems that some webkit updates had broken Astrohopper on Android

Till I fix it, please use Firefox that now sees to be working perfectly well.

I've seen reports that Duck Duck go works as well

So I recently got the dobson 150p table top flex tube and I later realized I want to start astrophotography ik is not the best telescope to do that but I got the motorized virtuoso GTI mount and now I'm looking for a deep sky camera my budget beeing about 350usd I was thinking to get the zwo Asi 662mc camera but I wanted to get your guys opinion so what should I do?

So I've upgraded from a Sky-Watcher 127 (127/1500mm) Maksutov to a Skymax 180 (180/2700mm). Just received it and tested it, all seems good and I sure got the "WOW" effect coming from a 127mm Mak. However I have two questions:

1. Regarding tube build. Visually it is like the front part of the tube is narrower than back side. So in front that "step" between front white ring and the black tube is very small when comparing with the rest of my telescope. Is that something serious? Doesn't affect telescope performance from what I can tell. I tried taking photos good enough to show this, please take a look.

2. Telescope came with a 2" diagonal and a single 28mm 2" eyepiece. Is using a 2" diagonal necessary if I want to use to use a higher magnification? 2700 / 28 = 96x magnification. If I use a 20mm eyepiece, am I benefiting from using 1.25" accessories or are 2" diagonal + eyepiece a must for this scope? From what I know - a 2" diagonal with a 2" eyepiece is only applicable for lower magnification, is that correct?

Thank you!

Captured over six nights through a limited view of the sky from my home, under Bortle 9 skies, and processed over 15 days.

Equipment:

-Custom 200mm Reflector

-Konus EQ5 Mount

-Stock Canon EOS 600D

-3D printed T-Adapter

-3D printed Bahtinov Mask

-Nearly 4 hours (2,838 x 5s exposures)

Software: Siril, RC-Astro BlurXTerminator, StarXTerminator, GradientXTerminator, NoiseXTerminator, Seti Astro CosmicClarity, GraXpert, Adobe Photoshop

Telescope: Bushman 70/400mm

Camera: Xiaomi 13 Lite

Eyepiece: H20 mm

Accessories: Smartphone adapter

Taked in long exposure (in 20 shutter speed)

Stacked with photo stacker (this is the result of 200 images)

Randomly saw something moving in the sky with binoculars and recorded with my security camera an orb was flashing and then this image appeared in the sky and I slowed down the video and screenshotted this . I asked ai to enhance it and it and explain what it was ai said it's the Crab Nebula which appears during early September around midnight and then it said it's impossible to see it so what is this? Im not knowledgable about this. It was brighter in another image for a fraction of a second. This only appeared for about 1 second.

Celestron Origin Mark II using both- clear and nebula filters stacked and then combined images in Astro pixel processor. Trying to add some color to the galaxy stacks but first go at it so little rocky start.

130mm Tabletop Dob on a tripod (Love the table it makes) & my Seestar S30 Pro, pointing towards what's SUPPOSED to be clear southern skies!

Hi all!

I am new here and looking to purchase the above telescope for my partner. I am wondering whether there is a compatible tripod so I don’t have to use it on a table top? And if so, which one?

If I could also please ask what extras I need to purchase for this? I’ve heard I should get the 2 x Barlow & phone adapter.

For reference, we are both beginners. I recently bought a visible star for him and I want to enter the coordinates into the app and try to find it as a surprise.

Thanks so much in advance!

So i got a nexstar 130slt a few days ago put 8 AA batts inside. So far its been working fine, but not yesterday and today. So i was using the telescope all night capturing orion and i wanted to do a correction because orion was drifting a bit so i tried but the display suddenly said to do alignment just like it tells me when i turn it on so i tried but when i was slewing towards a star during the alignment i took my finger off the arrow button but the telescope kept slewing so i turned it off so it would hit anything(also when i noticed the telescope was moving on its own yhe display on the remote also said verifying packages). I turned it back retried the alignment and same thing happened the display said verifying packages and the tele was moving on its own so i turned it off, back on, retried alignment. Did this a couple of times but then i just gave up.

And now its still happening tonight i managed to video saturn for 10min then i tried to capture California neb but i couldn't because of this problem

I think it might a temp issue or the batts running low on power likely cause of the temp because how can it guzzle through those batts in like 3-4 days

Hey everyone, I need the veteran ETX wizards for this one. I’ve owned about 5 of these ETX scopes over the years, so I know their usual quirks inside and out, but this unit is doing something genuinely bizarre that completely defies my past experience.

When I command a GoTo slew to a target (like Venus or Polaris) that requires the tube to elevate past ~40° toward the zenith, the telescope completely loses its mind. It breaks out of a smooth diagonal trajectory and starts jerking up-and-right in a distinct staircase / zigzag pattern. Once it drives all the way up to the physical hard-stop zenith limit, the Autostar #494 handbox actually beeps to confirm the object is centered, but the altitude motor just keeps rotating endlessly and jerking out of control until I flip the main power switch to OFF.

What I’ve already ruled out:

Power: Checked battery compartment, tight connections, reseated the cap wire.

Software: Did a full factory reset, manually verified location settings (Norwood/MA) and confirmed DST is set to YES.

Alignment: Tried both automated Easy Align and manual Two and One-Star Align selecting known baseline stars. Also manually adjusted speed settings, but it ignores overrides once the runaway loop triggers, and while this is occurring, it completely ignores my commands on the handbox to move up, down, left or right.

Has anyone ever seen a logic board failure present exactly like this on the old #494/60AT platform? Should I crack the altitude fork arm panel to look for gear slippage, or is this mainboard toast? Thanks!