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Pepijn @[email protected] · 2026-07-22 · 16:35 UTC

Question: with our small 100mm f/4 dobsonian telescope* I use the 8mm** and 20mm*** eyepieces from our Nextstar 5SE.

This gives magnification of 50x and 20x. With the x2.25 barlow**** on order that's 112.5x and 45x.

For planet watching a bit more magnification would be nice. Is that realistic though, and if so, what would you recommend (and also works with the 5SE)

* Skywatcher Heritage 100p
** Something 8mm UWA 58º
*** Vixen LV20mm 50º
**** Baader Q-Barlow 2.25x

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Telescope @[email protected] · 2026-07-22 · 16:18 UTC

What is Hubble observing?

Target: MRK-1014
Target Category: Supermassive Black Holes And Active Galaxies
Research Program: Improving BH Scaling Relations in High-Mass AGNs: Insights from HST Imaging and Dynamical Modeling

https://spacetelescopelive.org/hubble?obsId=01KXWK1MMT703WFEB6PMJN0BX7

#hubble #space #astronomy #telescope

The Sun @[email protected] · 2026-07-22 · 16:15 UTC

https://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/gif/

#TheSun #space #astronomy #telescope

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3i/Atlas @[email protected] · 2026-07-22 · 08:00 UTC

The James Webb Space Telescope spent nearly eight hours staring into NGC 4696, a galaxy 145 million light-years away, and watched a river of cool gas pour into an 800-light-year disk spinning at 600 kilometers per second, feeding the supermassive black hole on a self-renewing loop
https://atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug=the-james-webb-space-telescope-spent-nearly-eight-hours-staring-into-ngc-4696-a-galaxy-145-million-light-years-away-and-watched-a-river-of-cool-gas-pour-into-an-800-light-year-disk-spinning-at-600-kilometers-per-second-feeding-the-supermassive-black-hole-on-a-self-renewing-loop
Latest: <p>For the first time
#telescope #nearly #james #space

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The Sun @[email protected] · 2026-07-21 · 16:23 UTC

https://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/gif/

#TheSun #space #astronomy #telescope

#thesun #space #astronomy #telescope

Telescope @[email protected] · 2026-07-21 · 16:16 UTC

What is Webb observing?

Target: VDB101-BKG-visit-15-copy
Target Category: Gas, Dust And The Ism
Research Program: Interstellar PAHs: separating the neutrals from the ions

https://spacetelescopelive.org/webb?obsId=01KXFB6WGPH9WKBAQ9HJX31Q0E

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Tio @[email protected] · 2026-07-21 · 15:07 UTC

After having my Celestron SLT 130 telescope for some 10 years now, yesterday it broke. Exactly before the total solar eclipse next month...after I was preparing so much for it.

What broke? This shitty little plastic gear that got worn out over the years:

That's all. A terrible design pairing such badly made gears with metal ones. And now I cannot control the left/right movements of my telescope. And I cannot find a way to replace it. Or to buy the entire motor... Unless, maybe, I order it from USA/Canada and I pay a lot of money and may not arrive in time for the eclipse.

Hey Universe, not enough that I was already in a black hole mentally? You want more?! What else next ha?!

I give up man... :))

Fuck this shit. All of it. I wish I could sleep and just sleep. And not dream. But I can't even sleep for the past weeks. And when I do I always have nightmares.

Welcome to my downfall.

Is fine...I think I will survive. But that's the last thing I needed for the telescope to break. I also don't feel like buying a different one since it works, is just a little fucking gear/wheel....is just that I also broke something else when I opened it...so I likely need to get the entire engine for it...

I wish life was a stupid game and I can say: ok that's it, turn it off. I'll go back to the real life and not play this stupid game again.

#solareclipse #telescope #plannedobsolescence

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