Meade LX200 Schmidt-Cassegrains! I cover the 8”, the 10”, and the 12”. There’s an overview, a section on tips and tricks, buying advice for older units, and a special section on the 7” Maksutov.
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Orion Starblast Telescope
Zhumell Z114 Telescope (same as the Orion Starblast)
Orion XT6 Telescope (new version as of 2022)
Orion XT8 Telescope (new version as of 2022)
Sky-Watcher 6” Dobsonian Telescope
Sky-Watcher 8” Dobsonian Telescope
TeleVue 24mm Panoptic (my favorite ” eyepiece)
TeleVue 13mm Nagler Type 6 eyepiece
TeleVue 7mm Nagler Type 6 eyepiece
TeleVue Ever
...brite ” Diagonal
TeleVue 2X Barlow (Much better than the cheap throwaway barlows found in cheap scopes)
Heated gloves
Heated vest
Small planisphere
Large planisphere
The Cambridge Star Atlas
The Stars: A New Way To See Them
Sky & Telescope’s Pocket Star Atlas
The 21st Century Atlas of the Moon
Turn Left at Orion (good beginner’s book about finding stuff)
My tiny 8X21 binoculars are here
A decent pair of 7X35 binoculars
A decent pair of 7X50 binoculars
The Orion 8X42 binoculars are here
Camera used for filming
Camera I’m using for 4K video and some B-Roll
The lens I use for filming (80% of the time)
The lenses used for filming the rest of the time (17-40 f/4 and 24-70 f/4) and
My tripod
My ballhead
The softboxes I use
Wireless mic:
My astrophotography book contains advice on telescopes observing, and taking pictures (based on my award-winning Dartmouth thesis, June 2020) 255 pages, 258 color images:
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