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For grins and giggles.... and seeing that they get decent reviews for an intro level scope....
I've ordered an Apertura 72 mm Doublet APO Refractor with tracking scope and flattener from HighPoint Scientific. This is basically the same scope that William Optics sells as their ZenithStar 73mm (@ $713 for base scope for) and many others rebrand them with their brand line.
This will basically be used for captures of wide field targets like the Andromeda Galaxy and Peliades to reduce having to do mosaics (of course, I need to get a new camera also!)...as well as use with the local astronomy group I plan on getting started.
The nice thing, since it's a 2" setup, I can use the same lenses /diagonal that I purchased for my ZenithStar 103mm for it (since WO ZenithStar 103mm & 73mm can use the same hardware). I may even be able to use the same camera rotator for it.
Since I have this one on order, I've decided to keep the Celestron mount to use also for the local astronomy groups, as that will give me 2 actual telescopes I can use towards that and then I'm ordering the Celestron SkyMaster 15x70 binoculars and the tripod mount for them...so that will be 3 levels of different devices that they can look through.
That will give me two decent scopes (the Celestron on it's mount for planetary and live viewing of DSO objects) and then the Apertura for use either live view or capturing when not having a sky party and then a more "common" type of equipment that even a beginner can use, the binoculars.
I've ordered an Apertura 72 mm Doublet APO Refractor with tracking scope and flattener from HighPoint Scientific. This is basically the same scope that William Optics sells as their ZenithStar 73mm (@ $713 for base scope for) and many others rebrand them with their brand line.
This will basically be used for captures of wide field targets like the Andromeda Galaxy and Peliades to reduce having to do mosaics (of course, I need to get a new camera also!)...as well as use with the local astronomy group I plan on getting started.
The nice thing, since it's a 2" setup, I can use the same lenses /diagonal that I purchased for my ZenithStar 103mm for it (since WO ZenithStar 103mm & 73mm can use the same hardware). I may even be able to use the same camera rotator for it.
Since I have this one on order, I've decided to keep the Celestron mount to use also for the local astronomy groups, as that will give me 2 actual telescopes I can use towards that and then I'm ordering the Celestron SkyMaster 15x70 binoculars and the tripod mount for them...so that will be 3 levels of different devices that they can look through.
That will give me two decent scopes (the Celestron on it's mount for planetary and live viewing of DSO objects) and then the Apertura for use either live view or capturing when not having a sky party and then a more "common" type of equipment that even a beginner can use, the binoculars.