Our friend lent us this insane telescope!!! SVX130 with Nitecrawler 

Honestly we never imagined that one day we'll have this equipment. Well all of it is on loan but still 😂

Thank you so much 🥰

Thank you, clear skies to you too!

Hi Logan, Mark is the same great person that gifted me my CEM60, QHY168 and polemaster from Astronz....a totally wonderful person who helps many many people all over the world in this hobby !

Thanks! And yes that is an amazing friend 😃

Merci beaucoup !

Haha no idea what was in my hair, really strange

I always wonder that. I mean this telescope is $3K+ when our Orion 8" Astrograph is $499.... That's something I never understood 🤔

@@GalacticHunter yeah to me a scope half the diameter a big downgrade. If I was spending 3k on a scope for photography I would not look past the Rasa and at f2 is an astrophotography dream. And are now becoming the astrophotography scope to own. I know with my Evolution 9.25, can take the secondary camera off and mount a camera on the front, giving me f2. Even the Evolution 9.25 or larger on eq mount with their large apertures beats any large refractor and possibly evrn cheaper. To me aperture and fast is king, pull in more detail faster. I know Dylan O'Donnell one of the more well known astrophotographer down in our part of the world swears by the Rasa and have some of the most incredible shots ever and can pull in detail in an incredible amount of detail in even without mount tracking accuracy if he wishes, so basically if you could, could even use an alt alz mount. Your astrograph 8" would have been better than the refractor you bought, money would have been better spent on mount upgrades, electric focuser, etc. However some people perfer the refractor, but for me it a fast big aperture wins everytime. Larger means more detail which is why professional astronomer always go faster bigger aperture scopes, pulls in more light, greater detail. While you will still get great detail with your new scope, the 8" you had would still pull in more detail and light and if about the same f ratio more detail faster. While a faster f ratio means shorter exposure times with more light, you can only, no matter how fast an f ratio only pull in so much light given the aperture of the scope. Fast f ratios means less exposure time but light gathering is still limited to size of objective or mirror. Still any lens or mirror goes well beyond what the human eye does. Sure seen great results from even a 50mm fast refractor but seen even better results of the same area in taken with larger scopes.l

@@GalacticHunter refractor are miles more expensive than reflectors hense its cheaper to make large reflectors than a large refractor. Which per inch are very expensive to produce

We had a mic... and it was terrible.. need to find a good one once and for all

@@GalacticHunter definitely! Good audio will do great justice to your lovely videos 👌🏽 sorry for sounding picky, just sometimes I’m watching your videos on the go on my phone and it’s difficult to hear very well 🙂