About this deal
When we test your telescope, we will ensure that it is of the highest quality otherwise, we will reject the scope under our strict quality control and test another model for your peace of mind.
In theory, if you wanted a one hour time-lapse camera exposure, both telescopes should be able to keep everything motionless and centered due to their tracking capability, right? However, I do not recommend mounting any other telescope on the NexStar 8SE base due to its weight limitations and shallow profile. I found right ascension, declination, altitude and azimuth thoroughly confusing, but the arm exercise helped me understand it. Planets are so bright that the best way to photograph them is to take a video and feed the video into the stacking software. I have plans of shooting a video about light frame acquisition in the future, but this one is about what happens after you have already captured your data.
I had better optics, since I’d upgraded everything to 2” Luminos, including the Barlowe in use here, but was still using a Canon T5i DSLR. One of the most important factors in a telescope is its transmission—the percentage of light that reaches the focal plane. Celestron’s signature orange-tube telescope combines advanced features and excellent optics in one easy-to-use system, the NexStar 8SE. Once aligned by using three bright objects the telescope can help you find and track thousands of objects. Your 8SE will arrive in boxes that are robust and adequate for storage and transporting, to begin with.
The other issue is that the tracking control software drifts over time and makes a correction every 30 seconds or so.
he telescope OTA (optical tube assembly) is top-notch, while the mount is just enough to get you by.