you can’t navigate the universe without
the right telescope hi I’m Rebecca
Brayton and welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’re speaking with the night sky
guy Andrew físicas about astronomy
equipment well this is a probably the
telescope that i recommend the most for
folks we’re just starting out in
astronomy the hobbyist are looking up at
the universe it’s called a dobsonian
design telescope mounted on a cradle
that swivels very easily the telescope
itself can move up and down left and
right very easily with a touch of a
finger no less so it’s very easy and it
doesn’t have any fancy gadgets
necessarily if you want you can load it
up with a handheld computer that has
over 14,000 objects and its onboard
library if you like but really the heart
of this telescope is an eight inch
mirror so it’s called a reflecting type
of telescope and it’s the most popular
type that you can get out there if
you’re interested in traveling and you
like to go to all over the globe and you
wanted to take your telescope along but
it’s just been too much of a hassle this
is the scope for you because this is a
really the best compact scope around its
by Mead it’s called the etx it comes in
various sizes this is a 90 millimeter
model by 90 millimeter we’re talking
about the actual size of the mirror
that’s inside embedded inside this tube
that’s the heart of this telescope of
course and it’s a wonderful little
compact scope needy TX’s also come with
computer control as well and has an
onboard library of over 26,000 objects
so you can go anywhere in the universe
basically in the course of an evening
it’s a fantastic little scope and it’s
very lightweight easy to put in its own
carry onboard case if you’re flying
around well this telescope is an 8 inch
telescope it’s a reflector it’s called
actually a Schmidt cassegrain it’s it’s
a special type mixture of a mirror and
lenses it’s in the group of telescopes
called catadioptric and it’s a very
popular type of telescope because you
can see it’s very short and squat so
it’s made for portability but yet you
don’t really give up on the power that
something like this gives and power is
really of course related to the size of
the mirror
and this puppy has about eight inches
now if you’re into bells and whistles
and you’re a gadget freak then telescope
like this is amazing because it’s
totally robotic and computer-controlled
it’s got this paddle that allows you to
punch in everything from planets
galaxies star clusters you can basically
tore the entire universe and more with a
database and it’s even upgradable
through the internet today and you’ve
got GPS loaded up on on telescopes like
this so you don’t need to even need to
know exactly where you are on the earth
it can find itself and start orienting
itself to the night sky right out of the
box well this little telescope is
probably very familiar to a lot of folks
it’s something that most of us when we
start off in astronomy probably had
their parents buy it or you bought it
for your kids and it’s probably sitting
in a closet vesting away somewhere and
that’s because it’s so hard to use and
it’s frustrating this is the type of
telescope you really kind of want to
avoid and not the refractor itself the
refractor type which uses lenses there’s
a very good type of telescope but just a
little one like this it’s probably not
going to do you very much when you’re
really touring the universe
the right telescope hi I’m Rebecca
Brayton and welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’re speaking with the night sky
guy Andrew físicas about astronomy
equipment well this is a probably the
telescope that i recommend the most for
folks we’re just starting out in
astronomy the hobbyist are looking up at
the universe it’s called a dobsonian
design telescope mounted on a cradle
that swivels very easily the telescope
itself can move up and down left and
right very easily with a touch of a
finger no less so it’s very easy and it
doesn’t have any fancy gadgets
necessarily if you want you can load it
up with a handheld computer that has
over 14,000 objects and its onboard
library if you like but really the heart
of this telescope is an eight inch
mirror so it’s called a reflecting type
of telescope and it’s the most popular
type that you can get out there if
you’re interested in traveling and you
like to go to all over the globe and you
wanted to take your telescope along but
it’s just been too much of a hassle this
is the scope for you because this is a
really the best compact scope around its
by Mead it’s called the etx it comes in
various sizes this is a 90 millimeter
model by 90 millimeter we’re talking
about the actual size of the mirror
that’s inside embedded inside this tube
that’s the heart of this telescope of
course and it’s a wonderful little
compact scope needy TX’s also come with
computer control as well and has an
onboard library of over 26,000 objects
so you can go anywhere in the universe
basically in the course of an evening
it’s a fantastic little scope and it’s
very lightweight easy to put in its own
carry onboard case if you’re flying
around well this telescope is an 8 inch
telescope it’s a reflector it’s called
actually a Schmidt cassegrain it’s it’s
a special type mixture of a mirror and
lenses it’s in the group of telescopes
called catadioptric and it’s a very
popular type of telescope because you
can see it’s very short and squat so
it’s made for portability but yet you
don’t really give up on the power that
something like this gives and power is
really of course related to the size of
the mirror
and this puppy has about eight inches
now if you’re into bells and whistles
and you’re a gadget freak then telescope
like this is amazing because it’s
totally robotic and computer-controlled
it’s got this paddle that allows you to
punch in everything from planets
galaxies star clusters you can basically
tore the entire universe and more with a
database and it’s even upgradable
through the internet today and you’ve
got GPS loaded up on on telescopes like
this so you don’t need to even need to
know exactly where you are on the earth
it can find itself and start orienting
itself to the night sky right out of the
box well this little telescope is
probably very familiar to a lot of folks
it’s something that most of us when we
start off in astronomy probably had
their parents buy it or you bought it
for your kids and it’s probably sitting
in a closet vesting away somewhere and
that’s because it’s so hard to use and
it’s frustrating this is the type of
telescope you really kind of want to
avoid and not the refractor itself the
refractor type which uses lenses there’s
a very good type of telescope but just a
little one like this it’s probably not
going to do you very much when you’re
really touring the universe
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