After my first Celestron NexStar 4SE was received out of collimation, Celestron honored its warranty and replaced it with another new one. This one is PERFECT ! It has such great clarity and tracks very well ! I wanted a "go-to" scope that was also "grab-n-go" size and weight and this NexStar 4SE really fits the bill.
Within hours of assembly, I took it out for its "first light" on the Moon and Jupiter.
First I took a prime focus shot of the Moon:
Then I dropped in a 2x teleconverter...
The Canon t2i has a movie mode of 640x480 cropped:
But then there was Jupiter, with it's moons (left to right: Ganymede, (Jupiter), Io, Europa
Then a close-up of Jupiter, once again with the cropped movie mode, processed in Lynkeos on a Mac. You can just barely make out the Great Red Spot at the upper left of Jupiter. Visually, I could make out the moon Callisto just as it moved away from the bright disk of Jupiter (in this image it would have been in the lower right hand portion). I was impressed by the views of this little scope !
Here is the scope and camera mounted on it.
Within hours of assembly, I took it out for its "first light" on the Moon and Jupiter.
First I took a prime focus shot of the Moon:
Then I dropped in a 2x teleconverter...
The Canon t2i has a movie mode of 640x480 cropped:
But then there was Jupiter, with it's moons (left to right: Ganymede, (Jupiter), Io, Europa
Then a close-up of Jupiter, once again with the cropped movie mode, processed in Lynkeos on a Mac. You can just barely make out the Great Red Spot at the upper left of Jupiter. Visually, I could make out the moon Callisto just as it moved away from the bright disk of Jupiter (in this image it would have been in the lower right hand portion). I was impressed by the views of this little scope !
Here is the scope and camera mounted on it.
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