Astro Tutorial #1.4 (old version): Coordinate Systems of the night sky - ALT/AZ vs RA/DEC 

Brilliant vids, glad you realise the coffee does put some of us fussy people off, I will go and watch them all now. thanks for posting.

Thank you very much, you are very welcome!!

Oh thank you very much! Very much appreciated! ☺️

Thanks Jim! Greetings and clear skies! Chris

Thanks a lot for this comment! Much appreciated! Clear skies to you! -Chris

Thanks a lot Brandon!! I very much appreciate your words ;-) clear skies!!

Than it wasn't too great of a tutorial :-D Any questions left I can resolve?

Thank you so much for this heartwarming comment!

Thank you. Glad the video was of any help!

;) Thanks!

You are very welcome dmccallie! Thank you for your comment! Clear skies!

Great! I am really happy that some of my intends work out as intended! Glad the video was of any help! Any idea of what the first scope will be? Clear skies Dan!

@@catchingphotons Almost. I think I need to decide on what my targets will be. I'm not fussed on photography just yet. My main thought has always been observing objects within the solar system. My bracket for product research is a Newtonian reflector. Your video on 'chromatic aberration' made me careful of refractors in my £200-£300 budget range (?) Your video on the sky grid makes me realise I don't want a computerised mount and miss out on learning more about applying RA/DEC. If I wanted to view clear images within the solar system, but perhaps look at deep space objects I was thinking a Reflector with an f/ratio between 5 and 9, am i in the right area? any advice would be amazing!

@@danthornton1673 I would get f ratio at 5 so you can see wider field deep sky objects and then just use a 3X Barlow to make it f15 for looking at planets. Maksutov cassegrain telescopes like the etx 90 and etx 125 are very well suited for planetary, I have them both. used telescope gear is very hard to find right now because of the pandemic

Thank you dude for the encouraging comment! I will try to improve quality along the way. Thanks for the feedback. Greetings and clear skies! Chris

Hey Jon! Thanks for your encouraging words! I need some clarification regarding your question: what do you mean with estimating RA? Are you referring to the"location RA/DEC rings on the common EQ mount? Thanks and clear skies!!

Thanks for the feedback, always appreciated!

Everything is always about math ;)

Hidden figures was a great movie!! I loved it! Though the ladies from NASA did quite a more complicated job than "just" adding coordinates to stars ;) Greetings Chris

Somehow now it is. Mind though that there are "coffee-free" re-uploads available within the "Theory"-playlist, mainly because the "coffee-topic" was much more controversial than I anticipated ;-) I want the audience to focus on the content - so if you mind the coffee, feel free to switch versions any time! Clear skies!

@@catchingphotons well, somehow I do mind yes... on the other hand, i should not be irked too much about it. It's just funny to see how some sounds can be very frustrating and some sounds please the ear (like turning a cap off a william optics bathinov mask) bist du deutsch?

ahm.... ?

:-) I always don't know if these comments are legit, bots, trolls or ironic.

@@catchingphotons Do you know why all commercial flights employ the coordinate system North east down!? North east down neglects the alleged curvature of the earth!! I wonder why.....