Modifying my Newtonian Telescope 

Those of us who were amateur astronomers 50 years ago may remember the silver shower cap that came on the Criterion RV-6...

So glad you take the time to show the whole process. It makes it easy to understand.

Nothing quite as satisfying as modding your scope. It makes a scope more personal.

Great video! Think I'll try painting the edge of my mirrors too hadn't thought of it until now. Love the shower cap.

Hey Stacey, Great video I hope you get some clear skies tonight, I'm here watching the sky here I see abit of blue sky here in London , fingers crossed for clear skies

Flocking good

I usually recommend people paint the interior of the scope tube with Black 3 instead of flocking.

nice

Very nice to see you back vlogging . (you and your glass of wine LOL) You are a very brave Astrophotographer . Lots of Mods which are working ! Nice display of the OCAL in use . I'm still not sure for my SCT . Cheers . /SRK

Secondary is still out of alignment Though by now you probably know that. I usually do the primary first. Otherwise setup looks good Nice image 👍

I tighten each mirror clip until I can no longer rotate the mirror, then loosen it little by little just until I can rotate the mirror freely again

Really good video! I bet the contrast improved quite a bit with the combination of flocking and edge blackening. On a side note - the pup was cute.

Good tip, especially the painting and shower cap. Oh, at 15:44, I the diffraction spikes look off centered, which I think is from the secondary mirror not being absolutely centered. Can be adjusted easily by adjusting the spider. You'll figure it out once you see it. (Unless that's a choice. I suppose it could be.)

I have the same model scope, and I definitely want to upgrade the spiders, I notice I have collimation shift when pointing low in the sky. Iv seen that TS Optics has a heavy duty metal spider for 8 inch newts, I’m thinking about giving it a try, other than that I LOVE my scope, I probably won’t ever go back o a refractor lol, clear skies stace.

I understand the benefit of flocking the tube, but it seems like it will always be a dust issue for your primary mirror. Would paint have been a good option?

g`day stace great video and supertune on the newt ... yes i would like to see a review on that collimator i have not seen that product before i was going to buy a laser one for my nephew he needs a good one congratulations on the engagement to the bank manager and who could say no to you getting a new astro camera lol cheers for the vid haven't seen you in my notifications for a while

Nice video Stacy! Tell us how that nexus works.

Great job Stacey, love the shower cap! I’m not good at explaining things! I thought you did great! If I ever go for a reflector telescope, (refractor guy here!) I’ll get one on these collimation tools👍Although I’m not as brave as you to take it all to bits🤣 Thanks and clear skies!

Do give me your further thoughts about Altair 26C versus 533. The square sensor of the 533 makes a lot of sense. Lenses are round, squares fit into circles better than rectangles do. Or you can just use the 26C and crop the image.

Nice

The bank manager is usually the female in the house lol. Nice video cheers.

can someone show evidence that traditional flocking is still better than these new paints, like Black 3.0? It certainly is inferior to VantaBlack but , that's impossible to get unless you're nasa.

Nice Stacy, I did the same most of what you did for my 8” Orion, can’t find a mirror mask or stronger spider arm’s though?

i have an 8" dobsonian and I've been heavily debating whether its worth all the time, effort and the dust to flock the OTA? has it made a significant improvement in your observations? if so, how so?

Bostin Stace!

How much did you spend for that Newtonian?

Apparently it's unavailable at present. Ontario Telescope shows it lists for $330... for that kind of money it better come with a person to use it on my scope...

Great presentation very informative. I'm looking at getting a 200mm reflector for astro. I have question - why did you go for F5 rather than F4 for photography?

Nice mods to your Newt! Collimation - the bain of my life. I've collimated my laser then collimated the tube but that doesn't agree with the Cheshire or the collimation cap. Cuiv, the Lazy Geek recently had a video about it. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xMDKOOwVwvM.html. Any chance you could do a comparison between Ocal, Cheshire, Laser, collimation cap, +?. and explain what you should see if the secondary is not aligned with the focuser or the focuser has tilt etc. Sorry to be a pain 🙂

If you could do drawing or give me some dimensions, i could machine you some collimation knobs what ever style you like.? Let me know if your interested 👍 free of charge would be cool just to see you using them

7:55 Which app this??