Will this work well with a 90mm telescope and 7mm eyepiece? Will you get clear views of bright planets?
1336531
Well with the light pollution in LA. I live in the valley. I'm pretty happy with what I get. Jupiter's clouds, Saturn's rings and even use it to see the Orion Nebula.
1924095
A cheap telescope at 100x will be useless or nearly so. The image will be very dim and probably not very sharp at all. Astronomy binoculars are used for low light conditions where you need a large exit pupil to transmit more light to your eye.
350550
For Night Sky viewing you want a 50 mm lens or better.. like a 8X50 or so.. need bright lens to view stars or planets.. get the best you can afford. Tasco makes a good night vision binocular at a good price
1943774
Yes, definitively. But not with the standard lenses. The Sirius Plossi 10mm are good enough for interesting lunar views. Planets are still too small to really enjoy. But I bought 2x, 3x and 5x Barlow lenses and that is really good. A 3x Barlow with 10mm Plossi means 180x power. Nice views of Jupiter (Red Storm quite visible, atmosphere details as well) and Saturn (clearly defined rings). 5x Barlow with 10mm Plossi means 300x power. Good enough views (hard to focus without a 2-speed focuser, much more chromatic aberration). Furthermore, if at 180x it is already difficult to keep plante on view field (due to earth rotation movement), at 300x is almost impossible (unless you keep your eye on and keep adjusting position manually). For planets, a motorized mounting is mandatory. Also, at such high power, a usb camera plugged to a notebook would provide a much more effective way to see images (at notebook screen, obviously, not so "enjoyable" as a direct sight at ocular lens). I just bought a USB camera, as well as two astrophotography cameras, but have not yet opportunity to test. So, all in all: 1) for pleasant planetary views, with low cost, this Orion 120ST + 3x Barlow is really good 2) for formidable planetary views, consider upgrade either to a 100-to-120 APO Refractor or to a 160mm Reflector, with motorized mounting and good cams.
2225541
Long exposures with this telescope would be frustratingly difficult. Spend more money and move into the professional series of scopes with massive equatorial mountings and move to a location where light pollution is minimal. Your camera is a good choice, though.
1025720
This scope is good for the price and you will not be able to see the planets as you might with the professional ones. It is great watching the land marks and the moon. I hope this helps.
1069995
Details on planets depend on several things: Telescope alignment, quality of eyepieces, distance to the planet, and the planet itself. If you don't have a laser collimator, get one. They are well worth the $50-$70. While the secondary on this scope will stay very nicely in place, the primary (being heavier among other things) will need regular alignment and a laser collimator makes this less than a 5 minute job. The eyepieces that come with this scope aren't the best. If you want to do decent planetary viewing, get a good 6mm eyepiece. (Expect to spend at least $100, and read reviews from users to get the best bang for your buck.) While you'll get some good views of Saturn and Venus, and some really excellent views of Jupiter, Mars (and Mercury) generally don't show much detail. Further, right now, Mars is a great distance away from us and getting farther away each day. Every planet will give the best views when it is closest to us with Mars and Venus showing the biggest improvements when closest. When a planet rises at sunset, it is closest, or at "opposition." This also puts the plent highest above the horizonn around midnight, but gives good views starting around 9 PM. Your best view of Mars will come again on May 22, 2016. Jupiter Feb 6th, 2015, and Saturn on May 23rd, 2015. But note even then, Mars will not yield much detail beyand a distinctly orange disk and a definite whiteish area at the pole. When searching for eyepieces, you might also want to investigate a good 14-16mm eyepiece plus a 10% transmission filter for really great lunar views! For solar/sunspot viewing, you will need a special filter that fits over the front of the telescope tube.
1436816
It can be used with a 2x or 3x barlow to get higher magnification of the planets. May be harder to focus and harder to keep the image centered unless you have good tracking. Experiment! Ernest.
1119360
As long as you have an 1.25 focuser and an accurate drive on your telescope then you should at least be able to use this for the moon and planets. Hopefully this is helpful!
1469254
I use the 3 and higher for imaging Planets, thet 2X can be used for doubling the power at the eyepiece. The 127 eq is a great scope you should have lots of fun. I had a C5 at one time loved it.
735540
If you're referring to the Orion 80mm tabletop refractor scope, that accepts 1.25 inch eyepieces then yes it should. Since the camera is akin to a 5mm eyepiece and the focal length of the Orion 80mm tabletop is 350mm, the camera will produce a 70 power image. Which is what the stock 10mm eyepiece combined with 2X barlow would produce. This camera should only work on brighter objects, such as the moon, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn perhaps. I'm not sure how tracking objects would work with such a scope, I use and equatorial mount. Anyways should work. I prefer the steady pics smartphone adapter for my astro-photography however, but that is me. If you're referring to the Orion 80mm tabletop refractor scope, that accepts 1.25 inch eyepieces then yes it should. Since the camera is akin to a 5mm eyepiece and the focal length of the Orion 80mm tabletop is 350mm, the camera will produce a 70 power image. Which is what the stock 10mm eyepiece combined with 2X barlow would produce. This camera should only work on brighter objects, such as the moon, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn perhaps. I'm not sure how tracking objects would work with such a scope, I use and equatorial mount. Anyways should work. I prefer the steady pics smartphone adapter for... » Read More If you're referring to the Orion 80mm tabletop refractor scope, that accepts 1.25 inch eyepieces then yes it should. Since the camera is akin to a 5mm eyepiece and the focal length of the Orion 80mm tabletop is 350mm, the camera will produce a 70 power image. Which is what the stock 10mm eyepiece combined with 2X barlow would produce. This camera should only work on brighter objects, such as the moon, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn perhaps. I'm not sure how tracking objects would work with such a scope, I use and equatorial mount. Anyways should work. I prefer the steady pics smartphone adapter for my astro-photography however, but that is me. « Show Less
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I was in your same situation last year. There is no such thing. The camera you purchased is designed for low-level light objects, not bright planets. If you use this camera for Jupiter per say, you will lose much of the resolution due to a half second exposure. Brighter objects are easily over exposed and you can't use any barlow lenses. However, I did purchase another Orion StarShoot but for planetary captures. You could of course use a standard camera for both jobs but if you are like me, I like the technology that Orion makes so I can use my laptop.
1596501
I have been able to take decent (6-7 cloud bands visible) pictures of Jupiter with this using a 3x barlow. It will depend on your telescope, seeing conditions, and comfort using software like Registax to stack videos. This video is what unprocessed output might look like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UfyUpJxBYk
211948
That will depend on your telescope focal length and your eyepiece focal length. In my case, I use two of this to focus with my orion 120mm and 8mm eyepiece.
2206772
I only used it for star gazing but I'm guessing it may be to strong. A refractor telescope would probably be of better use. a refractor telescope is definity easier to use.
1087805
This is a great eyepiece, I am very happy with it. However, I didn't try to observe nebulae, since my telescope isn't that strong. I think that will depend on your telescope capabilities and sky conditions. The eyepiece, like I said, is really very good. Hope this helps.Bayard
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Celestine has its own adapter specific to telescope devices so you might want to check on the Celestine site first. Outside of that a 1.25 inch standard eyepiece will work fine although my wide field of view 52mm erffle barely fits.