My new NexStar 10" Scope!!!!
Well I finally did it, after checking out all my options and looking at my wallet I have finally upgraded from my wee NexStar 114GT to a NewStar 10” Dobsonian. The NewStar is the EXACT same make as the Orion Intelliscopes (minus the intelliscope) and, the SkyWatcher.
I picked it up on my lunch hour and had to leave it in the car until I got off work yesterday evening, I raced home, ate a little food, then put the Scope together, see the images below for the details.
Here is the OTA still in the box, good thing about the 10” is it fit across the back seat of my mid-size car, with no problem, and still in the box!
Here is the DOB Stand before assembly, along with the parts and tools supplied with the unit!
Parts
Tools
The toughest part was screwing the base to the swivel base; thankfully Jennifer helped me out without too much of a fuss :)
Now considering I did not get home until 8:45pm and still had to eat dinner, I managed to get this all together and out the door for an hour long session, it was a little bit chilly, I did not allow anytime for cool down as I was just too excited. I did a quick collimation check with my laser collimator, and collimation was almost spot on, just a quick tweak of the secondary and the primary got it good enough for me for the first light!
My impressions:
All I have to say is WOW this 10” scope blew me away, while I have been in to astronomy for over a year, I knew the 10” would not show me Hubble type images, but it was everything I ever expected and MORE! The Stars were nice an pinpoint (something I was never able to achieve with my 114GT), I used my 32mm EP, as this is my favorite and the differences were out of this world on the Moon, which was behind some branches of a tree, even with this in the way the images of the Moon were Astounding, next on to Jupiter, it too was in a poor position of right about my roof, Jupiter was still amazing to look at, I could even see belts with the 32mm!
I am so excited to get out again with my new scope, I have my flocking paper ordered and hopefully will get the Ultima Barlow next week.
I picked it up on my lunch hour and had to leave it in the car until I got off work yesterday evening, I raced home, ate a little food, then put the Scope together, see the images below for the details.
Here is the OTA still in the box, good thing about the 10” is it fit across the back seat of my mid-size car, with no problem, and still in the box!
Here is the DOB Stand before assembly, along with the parts and tools supplied with the unit!
Parts
Tools
The toughest part was screwing the base to the swivel base; thankfully Jennifer helped me out without too much of a fuss :)
Now considering I did not get home until 8:45pm and still had to eat dinner, I managed to get this all together and out the door for an hour long session, it was a little bit chilly, I did not allow anytime for cool down as I was just too excited. I did a quick collimation check with my laser collimator, and collimation was almost spot on, just a quick tweak of the secondary and the primary got it good enough for me for the first light!
My impressions:
All I have to say is WOW this 10” scope blew me away, while I have been in to astronomy for over a year, I knew the 10” would not show me Hubble type images, but it was everything I ever expected and MORE! The Stars were nice an pinpoint (something I was never able to achieve with my 114GT), I used my 32mm EP, as this is my favorite and the differences were out of this world on the Moon, which was behind some branches of a tree, even with this in the way the images of the Moon were Astounding, next on to Jupiter, it too was in a poor position of right about my roof, Jupiter was still amazing to look at, I could even see belts with the 32mm!
I am so excited to get out again with my new scope, I have my flocking paper ordered and hopefully will get the Ultima Barlow next week.
posted by MattOnTheMoon | 5/12/2005
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