I sold mine, not because its a bad scope, but it was a little too heavy for the CG4 mount. (Omni), and it produces a little too much chromatic aberration (false colour) for my taste. If you can come over a used Sky watcher ED100 or equal, i think that you will be more happy with that! But, as an allround scope the XLT 120, isnt a bad scope!
The real close ups are made with an Orion Optics OMC 140 mak, the other "sharp" images are made with a William optics Megrez 72 apo with two different barlows lenses, 1,5x and 2x.
The blurry ones are shot through a Celestron Omni 120 refractor.
It is hard to calculate the exact magnification, as this have neen shot with a ccd camera that will give the same "field of view" as an 5mm eyepiece... I guess the higher magnifications are equalent to about 300 times.
hi, are you use:
Celestron Omni XLT 120mm Refractor Telescope ?
se7sss 1 year ago
I'm planning of buying the XLT 120, would you recommend it?
imanoob4 1 year ago
Hi!
I sold mine, not because its a bad scope, but it was a little too heavy for the CG4 mount. (Omni), and it produces a little too much chromatic aberration (false colour) for my taste. If you can come over a used Sky watcher ED100 or equal, i think that you will be more happy with that! But, as an allround scope the XLT 120, isnt a bad scope!
Kind regards/Roger.
astrogotland 1 year ago
Go go OMC 140! Excellent post.
hughbreidenbach 2 years ago
Hi!
I processed the images with registax V2.1, that is supplied with the Celestron Neximage camera.
I estimate the FOV equal to a 5 mm eyepiece.
I am about to do more photographing as soon as the weather conditions are getting better here in the middle of the Baltic sea!
I can´t wait ´til Saturn gains altitude, so I can try out that Neximage camera for real!
Thanks for looking!
astrogotland 3 years ago
Do you use registax for processing the images?BTW,i was wondering about the fov of the neximage. Nice video.
teamsandvik 3 years ago
Hi!
The real close ups are made with an Orion Optics OMC 140 mak, the other "sharp" images are made with a William optics Megrez 72 apo with two different barlows lenses, 1,5x and 2x.
The blurry ones are shot through a Celestron Omni 120 refractor.
It is hard to calculate the exact magnification, as this have neen shot with a ccd camera that will give the same "field of view" as an 5mm eyepiece... I guess the higher magnifications are equalent to about 300 times.
Thanks for looking!
astrogotland 3 years ago
what type of telescope?? magnification??
thanks
supermanzit 3 years ago