How To Use a Dobsonian Telescope 

It's very nice that you made these Tutorial videos On how to use different kind of telescopes From Az, Eq, Dobsonians, Newtonians and Refractors.

Amazing video! I’m going to get my degree in astrophysics when I’m older

I have an Apertura 8” DOB . I watched your StarSense “Hack” where you installed StarSense on your Dobsonian and decided to try the installation. Works great. I’m new to using Dobsonian and really liked this video. Got your Book and will be trying to complete as much of your book’s targets as I can. Thanks for sharing your expertise and experiences with the World.. bruce

"I should get a Dob" is what a lot of astronomers like to hear

Thanks for making this video, very helpful to me!

Very cool!

Good video, lots of great topics concerning visual astronomy. A good overview for anyone interested in starting in this wonderful adventure.

Love your videos bro❤❤

Finderscopes and Telrads are ok if your skies are dark enough. But I HIGHLY recommend the StarSense Explorer equipped scopes, especially if you are unexperienced or have bright skies at night that make it hard to locate. Or if you just want to quickly find and see more objects.

I have a Dobsonian for more than 10 years. Because the tube is relatively light (11 kg) for a 203 / 1200 mm (8") telescope, recently I got my first equatorial mount so finally I will be able to take some long exposure images. BTW there is a video with John Dobson on telescope making. Dobson did a lot for the sidewalk astronomy and the popularization of stargazing in general, but his ideas on cosmology were at least far fetched, to put it mildly.

Well done! ❤

Thank you.

Great intro video. I love to play with my 10" Dob while the automated astro rig does its thing.

I’m getting a 8 inch celestron dobsonian for my birthday it that a good scope

Good video. My question is how big of dob can I carry up the basement stairs. 😂

of course, a table top $50 Bostonian telescope is perfect for looking at the moon. It would help you study it a lot more as you try to map it’s surface and measure the height of its mountains.

Perfect timing! I just bought a 10" Dob a few weeks ago. A Sky-Watcher Synscan 10. Two similar questions. It's difficult to twist your head into place to see into the finder. Do you recomend a diaganol, if so, which one ? I think comfortable image viewing could also benefit from a diagonal. So what would you recommend.? My first look at the moon blew me away. In 60 years of observing and photographing the moon, I've never seen such spectacular contrast and detail. I'm buying that book! Now I know why the cover has a cap with a hole in it 😅 Super helpful! An adjustable height chair would be good. Do you have one in mind?

Can you make a product review on Celestron Astromaster 130 eq

And what are the best Stargazing guidebooks?

Excellent video. For under 100$ I think a 70/700 mm achromat would be better than a 100mm newtonian :)

Living in a high light pollution city would a light pollution filter help or are they a gimmick?

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David Lorenz's light pollution atlas is much more accurate than lightpollutionmap, it uses satellite data from 2022, while LPM uses data from 2015. Light pollution grows unfortunately, I need to drive for 3 hours to get into a blue zone

I recently collimated my dob for the first time.i was very happy until i realised that my laser collimator was out of collimation!

Sorry but refractors are clearly easier to use for beginners than dobsonians since they so not need to be collimated.

Dobsonian mounts are not all that great for astrophotography.