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Originally Posted by RNajarian
I’m impressed/envious of some of the photos you guys have taken.
I dusted off my Celestron 5SE and have been able to view a number of remarkable deep sky objects in addition to objects in our solar system.
I picked up a cheapo SVBony 105 optical imager and have made a few images (nothing like what you guys are doing)
My question is: If I want to step it to the next level (astrophotography-wise) what do you guys recommend?
I am still playing with the Software to see if I can improve the resolution (through stacking) but I’m curious what advice the group would have for a nubie?
Bigger Scope?
Better Optical imager?
Thanks for your thoughts
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My suggestions....
Get yourself a smaller, imaging refractor, something in the 70 to 90mm range and short focal length...say, less than 600mm. An ED doublet will work great and not be expensive. A APO triplet is even better but more $.
Next, get German Equatorial mount or even some of the new sky tracker type mounts to try it out, see if you like it.
A one shot color camera is your friend while learning, no messing around with various filters to add color.
Start out small, see where it leads, you may hate it, lol.