Welcome to my channel, Maximum Astronomy. It’s a spin off on my name, Max! I want to thank you for visiting and watching my videos. I enjoy this hobby of astrophotography so much! Especially when I can share it with everyone else. Ever since I was little I’ve had a telescope, and enjoyed looking to the night sky. Now, years later, with some bigger and better equipment, the night sky reveals itself in a new way. With a telescope, dedicated astronomy cameras, filters and more, the wonders of the night sky come out…..one object at a time. Even though they’ve been discovered before, we can rediscover their beauty for ourselves. Come along, and let’s photograph and enjoy this hobby together. Because after all, astronomy is for all!
You are the BEST RU-vid presenter!! Wonderful clear voice and sweet presentation! I have a hard time understanding many RU-vid presenters and I could easily understand every word you said! Thank You Very Much
Nice. I've tried to coax out some color data from the lunar mode AVI and there is next to nothing there. Using "force bayer GBRG" in Autostakkert! give a nice tone, but there isn't enough there to crank up in the saturation controls in PS, etc. What am I doing wrong?
I bought used a year ago the 9.25 version, and it has been the most fun telescope I’ve owned as you said. It is also built like a tank, and still runs smoothly and accurately. I’m out there looking at the night sky with it almost weekly since having it. For the price I got it for (a little over $500), it was steal, and the previous original owner used it as a living room decoration for the last 20 years as it was too heavy for him to haul around. I also would recommend anyone who can get a good price on a decently kept sample to buy one. No regrets thus far.
@@MaximumAstronomy Sorry to repeat questions.. But does this have to be around WiFi to work in general.? Am I going to have to be connected to a main source WiFi to be able to “Use” and “Enjoy” this Telescope?
@@brucenunn3268 Nope. You can be in the middle of nowhere and it will operate just fine! The only WiFi you need connected is the one that’s imbedded in the mount. You can use it anywhere
if your looking to get into the hobby to take pictures its not really that much, by the time you buy everything separately your going to be in for way more then 4 grand. personally i think it takes all the fun and education out of astronomy, this like using a cheat code in a game and most people who buy it will use for a month and get board.
Hello, I would love to buy my first telescope and I watched bunch of videos and feel completely overwhelmed by the sheer amount of informations. This one to me seems like a nice starting one and also the price fits exactly my expected budget. Do you think this is good for someone completely new? Is it also possible to take a photos through it's eyepiece?
I think it would be a great telescope for you! It’ll show you a lot! You can connect a camera to the diagonal in the back to take pictures of the moon and such. You can also get a phone adapter to take pictures through the eyepiece with your smartphone if you want to go that direction too!
I went with the vespera pro because I already had both light pollution and dual band filters from the vespera classic I had. But I may jump on getting an origin later this year. I have an old school nexstar gps 11 bit would love an origin too.
beautiful video! here in Italy unfortunately it's been raining for 2 days and I haven't been able to observe and record anything... anyway congratulations! 😁👍🏻🔝
I have the askar 71f and had to use my sky watcher star adventurer wedge as the mount (it actually worked well! Lol). I tho had to put it on my binocular mount. I wonder if this would be a good buy?
Nice review mate! Gj. My opinion if anyone cares? Not worth it. For this price, recognize on what pieces you wanna spend your money on, do a research, spend time on it, and make your own custom rig. It will be tedious but in the end, youll achieve much greater results and you also get knowledge doing proper ap. Maybe its just me but im not into this automated stuff.
Not even talking about postprocessing part, which in the end makes 80percent of the magic, considering youre shooting session went well. This just cuts all the fun out of ap.
@@MaximumAstronomy is there a way i coud have the template for the stickers some how you dont have to send the exact stickers you have of course but simply the template if possible at all so i can ask my friend who has a vinyl shop to make stickers xD
go for the V2 - the VPro is quite an advanced scope but it needs hours of acquisition... V2 is much faster and the difference isn't that huge unless you're into advanced astrophoto ofc.
The only positive I see is the belt system. The iExos seems to have a very limited altitude range, means you are in trouble when travelling near the Equator. Tripod connection is a real problem for travel as we are in an era of affordable Carbon tripods. It is also substantially heavier than the SA GTi: iexos head + the joke "azimuth adapter" = 10.75lbs while the SA GTI head (obviously includes AZ adjustment) just 6lbs!! Polar scope is another thing for full nomadic sorties with no guiding equipment.
Very nice overview, thanks for making the video. How is your experience now after a few months ? And how about the sound, is it nosier than an EQ6-R Pro ? And how do you experience the mounting of the cables on the front of the mount, isn't that a problem for snags ?
The mount is super solid! It tracks well. Very accurate. Guiding numbers are great. It is noisier when skewing to objects than the EQ6R-Pro but if you’re doing imaging you’re only really slewing a few times a night so it’s not too bad. Certainly nowhere as loud as a Meade or something like that. The design of the mount is a little puzzling. The cables off the front doesn’t really pose too much issue for me but it’s the need for a second power cable into the USB hub that bothers me. Like everyone else incorporates the DC outputs into the saddles by powering them through the mount, not a separate external source. So some design quirks but it’s truly a good mount.
I've read all of the comments so far, and no one seems to understand the *convenience* of physically setting up the scope, imaging, and having the final post-processed image available in just a few minutes. Several times I have gotten up half an hour before dawn, looked up at the sky, and only then decided to shoot some available targets. Ten minutes later, I had my first post-processed image ready to email or post on the internet. I understand $4K sounds like a lot, especially compared to the Seestar, but please don't compare it to a Newtonian. They cost relatively the same (thousands of dollars) for all of the required equipment to be truly comparable (laptop, auto-alignment scope, guide-scope, battery, USB hub, AI processing, etc.). I pick up the Origin, carry it outside, level it, select a target on a star map on my phone, and hit Go! You can only do that with an autoscope, not with any 8"+ scope available today. So I'm willing to pay $2K for the scope parts with an added $2K charge for the convenience. Astro-photograpghy doesn't have to be hard and time-consuming to be fun and rewarding.
This is an insightful and helpful comment. I have great interest but very limited time, and the convenience is worth a LOT to someone like me. I am tired of struggling with my bulky, hard-to-move, hard-to-use Orion XT10i, being worried I'm going to damage it or knock it out of alignment every time I move it from inside to the deck. The idea of setting it up at 8 PM, and telling it to show me things while I'm down in the kitchen making dinner is _very_ appealing.
you mentioned two screws to adjust the belt tension but you never showed them. one is the push pull screw of course but which of the three on the motor?
Max…could you give a bit more detail on the equipment you used for the photos? I have this Sony mirrorless camera, but I am not getting sharp photos with the adapters I have. Any advice would be appreciated.
@@chrispeters2422 Hi there! The photos I took in the videos the Moon, Mars and Venus are all with a ZWO ASI120MC planetary camera. For high resolution planetary imaging you’ll want a camera with a small chip that can do really fast frame rates. A DSLR or mirrorless DSLR is wonderful for grabbing whole moon shots and some astrophotography, but the detail and sharpness comes from taking lots of pictures and stacking them together. I hope this helps. Let me know if you have any other questions! :)
@@MaximumAstronomy Thank you for the quick response and insight. I see a lot of ZWO cameras and the biggest difference in price is megapixels. Would all of them fit the 8SE or do I need to do more homework for compatability?
Yes they all will “fit” technically. They all will come with an 1.25” adapter you can put in directly into the diagonal for imaging. The smaller planetary cameras (usually $300) are smaller size chips for getting closer to the planets and the moon. The larger ones with larger pixel counter are more for deep sky imaging. You’ll probably wind up with one of each kind depending on if you want to explore both. It will be hard to do deep sky imaging with the SE mount versus a dedicated EQ mount that will enable you to do much more advanced work for deep sky. Planetary doesn’t matter a whole lot just you need tracking accuracy.
as far as I'm concerned, the app doesn't work, it always says it can't find the telescope, and the quality is also terrible, a toy that costs 500 dollars, I took it and destroyed it and put some garden flowers in it. The only use
I have an Origin and LOVE it! I also volunteer at an Observatory and we hold many star parties each month. It is fantastic for these public events as well because it’s so fast. It’s worth every penny - if you can afford it.
