The Mease ETX-60AT and 70AT were very popular telescopes. Even though Meade doesn’t sell them anymore, you can always find them in the pawn shops or online marketplace for used telescopes. Which means you can have a portable observatory that can fit in your backpack for $50. These are not like other telescopes with the […]
Celestron SkyPortal WiFi Module – Setup and Review
Telescopes were stagnating and using old technologies over the past years. Thankfully, it started to change recently, and in the last few years, telescope manufacturers finally started upgrading the tech in consumer telescopes. A while back, one of my friends was asking me about telescopes, and we came to the computerized mount topic. He was […]
Red Dot Finder Not Working – Fixed!
One day, I decided that I will mount Red Dot Finder from my old telescope to my DSLR camera. It should help with aligning and also framing the objects that I’m shooting. So I went into the garage and took my old telescope(Bresser 70AZ Reflector) that was sitting there for a few years. I remembered […]
Celestron NexStar 130 SLT Computerized Telescope Review
Celestron NexStar 130 SLT is very popular telescope amongst the beginners, so I have decided to do a complete review of this telescope. I have already made a review of an almost identical telescope from SkyWatcher. In the past, I was considering buying both these telescopes, so I know them well. Let’s talk about the […]
How To Detect Exoplanets – You Can Do It From Home
When I was a kid, I was hoping that there are other planets in the universe beyond our solar system. But no planets were detected around other stars until the January 9th, 1992 when the first discovery of two planets orbiting the Pulsar type star PSR 1257+12 was announced by two radio astronomers- Aleksander Wolszczan […]
Orion SkyQuest XT8 Review – #1 Beginner Telescope
If you are a regular reader of my blog, you may have noticed that I’m a big fan of the Newtonian telescopes. I have nothing against the refracting telescopes, but I like the fact that reflecting telescopes will show you much more on the sky for the lower price. So I will be reviewing Orion […]
