The music you hear wasn't added to the video. A 20" telescope is so epic that the sky will actually burst into symphony when enough people gather to use it. 🤩
It's really seldom that I like a video, but here sound and picture are just perfectly in tune. Awesome telescope, had mine for a year now. The skies are just amazing seen with a binoviewer.
I was nervous watching all the people at the eyepiece with that beautiful 20" mirror exposed. I put a nylon shroud around my scope to keep out extraneous light and anything anyone might drop.
I agree. I think it's plain madness not fitting the shroud around the Telescope because it has a very large fragile extremely expensive primary mirror and you need to protect it from dust, moisture ( as much as is practically possible ) and obviously foreign objects falling onto it!?
Aah the telescope!!! Aah the sky!!! Aah the photography!!! Aah the killing music!!! I can't stop watching on and on!!! It really took me to heavens!!! So when everything is excellent there definitely comes a complaint - Why this is not infinitely long? Please keep posting more and more like this...
@ they are definitely discontinued. They likely have them listed still, but don’t have them for sale. First Light Optics have them on their site, but don’t sell them.
I'm always a nervous wreck watching the masses invited in to look through a truss dob. That exposed mirror creeps me out and the first thing I'd do with that scope if give my wife the dimensions and flat black cloth with velcro to sew up a protective shroud. Beats doing life for murdering a kid that dropped that ... on the mirror. I was at an outdoor star party just like that when my friend took the podium to give a presentation, I looked over at his 24 inch truss and kids were hanging off of it like it was a set of monkey bars. Took a lot of self regulation to not lay a beating on them or their parents.
Beautiful scope! My only addition would be a shroud over the truss tubes to prevent people from sneezing or dropping their gum on the primary mirror. But then it would not be quite as sexy.
I am just finding out about this? Very cool post! I have a Meade Lightbridge 16 that I am happy with so far, this scope appears to be much superior. I have to check these out! Trade up!
Great video love it 🙂 ,, Skywatcher should just spend some time correcting the issues with these scopes and bring them back on the market eh ,,, no excuse for a awesome company like skywatcher not to do this ,, so please get the issues fixed so we can buy the stargate 20 ,, and feel free to make a stargate 25 please
Seeing the universe with the naked eyes is amazing off course...But I wonder if we need 30 meter Magellan telescope to see the real difference without good camera gear...
Sky Hoon! $8k US - actually thought it would be more expensive than that. I'd build a beautiful little house for it. I think they call those "observatories." Is there any astrophotography posted from this puppy? Love it, mate.
Which would be more valuable a giant dob or a smaller stable equatorial imaging mount....The eternal question...How big, big has to be in order to beat the best imagind cameras...?
This is all well and good but you really need a dedicated Observatory for this size of scope. Setting up in the daylight is long enough, it's the teardown at 5am when you are completely knackered that really gets forgotten about. Oh and the uncomfortable stepladder for viewing.
That is a damn nice scope and I only have one issue with it, it's the handle's that anchor the bars at the bottom and the ones used to anchor the bars at the top, are they plastic or metal, the reason I ask is because the plastic will strip out over time and also they are subject to the heat and cold if their plastic, I have dealt with those same handle's on a printing press, we replaced all of them with the metal type, for the price of the scope I hope they are metal. :)
With a 2000 mm focal length, it is not a question as how the Moon looks, it is a question what crater details you are seeing. The Moon's apparent size is half an arc-degree at the sky. With an 28 mm eye piece, you will get a magnification of 2000/28 = 71.4 times. You do not need more than 40 x to see the entire disk of the Moon, so, almost twice that magnification is showing you only half the Moon. Of course, you could take an eye piece with larger focal length, but you don't need a huge telescope as this one to properly view the Moon. If you have such a monster available, you want to dive into the details of it all. Besides, the sheer aperture size of this monster is virtually going to burn your retina when you take a peek through an eye piece without filter. This enormous telescope is gathering that much light intensity that it is almost like looking into the Sun directly. Anyone with a normal amateur telescope has made that experience, I guess. Just looking at the Moon with a fast scope is hurting your eye, so that you want to put a filter in between.
Looks amazing. Curious if there are any pictures or videos out there on the images from this type of telescope. Would you reccommend this setup over smaller EQ setups ?? Not comparable ? I managed to get very nice still images of the moon from my 12 inch manual Dobsonian, even if dobs are not supposed to..
unless you're far from any major cities, I think the larger apertures just work against you. More light gathering means more light pollution gathering.
If you want to do astrophotography, EQ setups are better. These huge telescopes are typically on Alt-Az or dubsonian type stands and I don't even know how they can solve the field rotation problem when do astrophotography. EQ stands haven't this problem.
You will gather details of the Moon most definitely with such a huge scope. It has a 2000 mm focal length, so that you can expect craters and such in high resolution. The Moon's disk will appear as a 17.5 mm disk image on a camera sensor, if positioned in prime focus. With a 36 x 24 mm full frame sensor, it will just fit onto your imaging. But, with an APS-C it will barely fit, or be cropped somehow. Of course, you could apply a focus reducer, but with such a huge aperture, why would you want to do such a thing? You can make quite nice pictures of the Moon with much smaller scopes than this monster.
@@dirtytreerat14 Does that mean that you can tell how large your image on the camera sensor is going to be if you take into consideration as to how apparently large your targeted object in the sky is? Like in this example of the Moon?
@@dirtytreerat14 What I actually meant was to ask whether you understand as to how I got to my statement that the Moon will be imaged as a 17.5 mm disk on your camera-sensor in case of a 2000 mm focal length scope. Can you acknowledge that you know how this figure is produced from the example of the Moon (half a degree arc in the sky) and the f = 2000 mm data?
Хорошая вещь. Но использовать её конечно хорошо где-нибудь в горах, иначе нецелесообразно покупать такую дорогую хреновину. Я я бы её установил в какую нибудь маленькую обсерваторию из сруба где нибудь в горах.
I very impressed by the fact nobody will ever show what these damn big ass things can see in ANY of these videos......apparently they don't see much .....if they do, then show those of us who would like to get into astronomy
I understand that may be quite difficult. Astrophotography is a serious skill (which I’m sure this chap has acquired) but you need the right equipment - likely gear that lends itself to image capture.
@@inter-linked Yup and also the right telescope for the job, dobsonians like this one aren't particularly designed to do that. This one actually has tracking, so it could definitely produce some nice images of a variety of objects with decent additional gear and plenty of skill. But what these dobsonians excel at is the deep space visual experience. And that's something you can't capture on camera as camera's do not equal eyes+brain. You really have to experience that in person and it's that sense of *really* seeing these things that's so awe inspiring. They're two very different but interesting sides of the hobby.
Wow, I got emotional! There’s no better feeling that sharing your telescope with others. Great video!
The music you hear wasn't added to the video. A 20" telescope is so epic that the sky will actually burst into symphony when enough people gather to use it. 🤩
It's really seldom that I like a video, but here sound and picture are just perfectly in tune. Awesome telescope, had mine for a year now. The skies are just amazing seen with a binoviewer.
Lovely video. You have well shown how to assemble the 20” telescope. Liked and subscribed.
I was nervous watching all the people at the eyepiece with that beautiful 20" mirror exposed. I put a nylon shroud around my scope to keep out extraneous light and anything anyone might drop.
I agree. I think it's plain madness not fitting the shroud around the Telescope because it has a very large fragile extremely expensive primary mirror and you need to protect it from dust, moisture ( as much as is practically possible ) and obviously foreign objects falling onto it!?
Aah the telescope!!! Aah the sky!!! Aah the photography!!! Aah the killing music!!! I can't stop watching on and on!!! It really took me to heavens!!! So when everything is excellent there definitely comes a complaint - Why this is not infinitely long? Please keep posting more and more like this...
Watch this with the Benny Hill music then...that should kill the moment for you! Lol
@Nikul Suthar www.skywatcher-india.com
I am 71 and have grown so much older just watching the assymbly.
I thought my 16" was pretty big. :) Really cool to see from 4:16 . Big thumbs UP!
I have a 5" :(
That 20" is a dream for me. I'm determined to get it.
Amazing video..P.s. the biggest telescope in Iceland is an 18 inch reflector....
Judging by the number of people watching the telescope paid off overnight.
Nice video, thanks for sharing. Particularly liked the reflections of the stars on the primary. Bit of a faff setting up though?
Show us some ground level closeups of the moon with camera zoom + software digital zoom please!!!
Excellent video! Lot of work but worth every second! :D
Amazing time-lapse!! 4:16
Those timelapses were epic! What a scope. Such a shame Skywatcher discontinued these.
Are you sure? They are for sale on astroshop.
@ they are definitely discontinued. They likely have them listed still, but don’t have them for sale. First Light Optics have them on their site, but don’t sell them.
Why has this been discontinued? Surly they weren’t running out of customers?
I'm always a nervous wreck watching the masses invited in to look through a truss dob. That exposed mirror creeps me out and the first thing I'd do with that scope if give my wife the dimensions and flat black cloth with velcro to sew up a protective shroud. Beats doing life for murdering a kid that dropped that ... on the mirror. I was at an outdoor star party just like that when my friend took the podium to give a presentation, I looked over at his 24 inch truss and kids were hanging off of it like it was a set of monkey bars. Took a lot of self regulation to not lay a beating on them or their parents.
Beautiful scope! My only addition would be a shroud over the truss tubes to prevent people from sneezing or dropping their gum on the primary mirror. But then it would not be quite as sexy.
They do make matching shrouds, at least, but I don’t know if it comes with in the 8 grand purchase price.
@@JasperJanssen The shrouds are included with the telescope
Awesome time-lapse.
More to the point., Oh for a sky like that !! Sadly I am in Wales not New South Wales.
Can you use this while tracking for astrophotography is the tracking precise enough
Bellissimo video, mi sono venuti i brividi, poi la musica...
Can you tell me how much does the primary mirror assembly weigh, without the cradles in place? I saw you raising it in place. How about the base?
I am just finding out about this? Very cool post! I have a Meade Lightbridge 16 that I am happy with so far, this scope appears to be much superior. I have to check these out! Trade up!
Just WOW!!. Oh for a 20 inch telescope.
Awesome video! Thanks.
Absolutely amazing
How well are you able to see Uranus and Neptune through there?
Yup
Barely, need a bigger telescope.
I now know why open truss dob owners place them on large tarps. So no one walking up kicks dirt on to the mirror.
Is a "light bucket" or long focal length needed to view anomalies on the moon?
20inches under australia sky?? awesome
Great video love it 🙂 ,, Skywatcher should just spend some time correcting the issues with these scopes and bring them back on the market eh ,,, no excuse for a awesome company like skywatcher not to do this ,, so please get the issues fixed so we can buy the stargate 20 ,, and feel free to make a stargate 25 please
Do they have a few problems at the moment?
Nice video, thanks for sharing.. Strikes me that critical collimation must be very difficult to achieve? I suppose the long focal length helps..
5 years ago )) This is old technology already
Is it parrallactic mount and EQ or alt-az. Goto like Skywatcher Goto
Seeing the universe with the naked eyes is amazing off course...But I wonder if we need 30 meter Magellan telescope to see the real difference without good camera gear...
Sky Hoon! $8k US - actually thought it would be more expensive than that. I'd build a beautiful little house for it. I think they call those "observatories." Is there any astrophotography posted from this puppy? Love it, mate.
Not really, for astrophotography you need an equatorial mount and a much rigid tube.
No, you don't need an equatorial mount for that . Remember, The world's largest astronomical telescopes no longer use it.
@@testaraustralia
I always like these quick set up telescopes 🤔
Then ther is the collimation process.. The most important before any seeing..
Which would be more valuable a giant dob or a smaller stable equatorial imaging mount....The eternal question...How big, big has to be in order to beat the best imagind cameras...?
Can Skywatcher not do away with the truss clamps with a more robust set of trusses or an 8 pole system.
This is all well and good but you really need a dedicated Observatory for this size of scope. Setting up in the daylight is long enough, it's the teardown at 5am when you are completely knackered that really gets forgotten about. Oh and the uncomfortable stepladder for viewing.
Jaws dropped.. Goose bumps.. Where can I find pictures taken with it?
Awesome video! Very very existing after 4:15! What camera did you used for record the Milky Way?
Is it much better than f.ex. 16 inch Orion ?? Or an 11 inch SCT on an EQ mount ? See any details ? Clusters ? Nebulae ?
I. A. M. I. N. L. O. V. E !
That wide open mirror is scary...needs a shroud ASAP.
My biggest telescope is a 12 inch reflector.. I plan to upgrate to a bigger dobsonian or german equatorial as soon as possible...
excellent video. subbed
That is a damn nice scope and I only have one issue with it, it's the handle's that anchor the bars at the bottom and the ones used to anchor the bars at the top, are they plastic or metal, the reason I ask is because the plastic will strip out over time and also they are subject to the heat and cold if their plastic, I have dealt with those same handle's on a printing press, we replaced all of them with the metal type, for the price of the scope I hope they are metal. :)
Beautiful telescope..
Awsome video!! Should be nice you to make a new one with the sky views from the telescope.
What song...When I heard the song I thought it is frome someone form my home country,...who else could make so good song that I like it....And YES. :)
Holy cow, does this thing come with a house!?, Beautiful Scope and piece of machinery, though!
video grandioso! Congratulazioni
What is it best for ? Planets ? Deep sky ?
Do you have any pictures from the telescope?
Very good looking. What is the eyepiece height(in cm) at zenith? thank you
thank you
denn haben wir auch in unsere kleine runde.da geht der himmel auf.
would be nice to see how big things look through it ? like the moon
With a 2000 mm focal length, it is not a question as how the Moon looks, it is a question what crater details you are seeing.
The Moon's apparent size is half an arc-degree at the sky. With an 28 mm eye piece, you will get a magnification of 2000/28 = 71.4 times. You do not need more than 40 x to see the entire disk of the Moon, so, almost twice that magnification is showing you only half the Moon.
Of course, you could take an eye piece with larger focal length, but you don't need a huge telescope as this one to properly view the Moon. If you have such a monster available, you want to dive into the details of it all.
Besides, the sheer aperture size of this monster is virtually going to burn your retina when you take a peek through an eye piece without filter. This enormous telescope is gathering that much light intensity that it is almost like looking into the Sun directly. Anyone with a normal amateur telescope has made that experience, I guess. Just looking at the Moon with a fast scope is hurting your eye, so that you want to put a filter in between.
This telescope price in malaysia around RM31,000 wow
This video almost made me cry
It was the music, its best to switch the music off , as it disturbs the logical part of your mind .
what cameras where used for the timelapses ?
О бог ты мой!!!! Это же сколько всего нужно кроме финансов для такого монстрища!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
All nighter and what a sky wow :-O
Photo planets???
Не телескоп! Мечта!
Самый жирный из скай вотчеров
That was spectacular
Fantastic video
show us the picture you have taken from the universe, mars, jupiter,etc,
How difficult is step 3?? Is not that cradle with the mirror around 60kg?!
Hi! Is it necessary to collimate it every time you use it?
A quick collimation is raccomanded
@@testaraustralia Thank you!
Looks amazing. Curious if there are any pictures or videos out there on the images from this type of telescope. Would you reccommend this setup over smaller EQ setups ?? Not comparable ? I managed to get very nice still images of the moon from my 12 inch manual Dobsonian, even if dobs are not supposed to..
unless you're far from any major cities, I think the larger apertures just work against you. More light gathering means more light pollution gathering.
If you want to do astrophotography, EQ setups are better. These huge telescopes are typically on Alt-Az or dubsonian type stands and I don't even know how they can solve the field rotation problem when do astrophotography. EQ stands haven't this problem.
You forgot to show us the hour lost collimating it ..LOL
fantastic video!!
Can you tell me the name of this song, please?
I'm guessing that , after spending that much money on this mirror there was no money left over for a shroud ? LOL
Is this good for moon pictures?
You will gather details of the Moon most definitely with such a huge scope. It has a 2000 mm focal length, so that you can expect craters and such in high resolution.
The Moon's disk will appear as a 17.5 mm disk image on a camera sensor, if positioned in prime focus. With a 36 x 24 mm full frame sensor, it will just fit onto your imaging. But, with an APS-C it will barely fit, or be cropped somehow. Of course, you could apply a focus reducer, but with such a huge aperture, why would you want to do such a thing?
You can make quite nice pictures of the Moon with much smaller scopes than this monster.
@@Guido_XL I know. I was joking. But thanks for telling me so I know in the future.
@@dirtytreerat14 Does that mean that you can tell how large your image on the camera sensor is going to be if you take into consideration as to how apparently large your targeted object in the sky is? Like in this example of the Moon?
@@Guido_XL no but that’s why i said thanks so I know in the future.
@@dirtytreerat14 What I actually meant was to ask whether you understand as to how I got to my statement that the Moon will be imaged as a 17.5 mm disk on your camera-sensor in case of a 2000 mm focal length scope. Can you acknowledge that you know how this figure is produced from the example of the Moon (half a degree arc in the sky) and the f = 2000 mm data?
very nice video !
What no collimation?! 😲
The collimation part would probably have been too boring for a video like this. He did the collimation procedure for sure.
Is this "grab and go"?
No, definitely not
Хорошая вещь. Но использовать её конечно хорошо где-нибудь в горах, иначе нецелесообразно покупать такую дорогую хреновину. Я я бы её установил в какую нибудь маленькую обсерваторию из сруба где нибудь в горах.
почему обязательно в горах? что за глупость
très belle vidéo !!!!
With a 20" mirror wouldn't dust particles be a concern?
AWESOME VIDEO!!!!!!!!!!!
@Rakesh N www.skywatcher-india.com
Awesome telescope music is by who please thank you.
i was wondering if all the comments were sarcastic...then it got to 4:16.....
+1
very nice
I gotta get me one of these!!!!!!!
Thank You for this amazing video! :-)
Only stupid people can dislike this.
Robbi Rob I totally agree with you
you right!
Excellent, lol
How much?
Oh, $7k for the 20" non-goto!
Excelente video!!! y ni hablar de ese traga luz!!
Awesome scope need to grow some wage
Grande Adriano! :)
Photo planets?????
Very bad.... not see the pictures of the sky!!!!!
Потрачено такое большое время на сборку, охлаждение ГЗ. А ради чего ? Бобры счастливы?
Этот идиот даже не показал фотки космоса через этот телескоп
Чего вы злые такие? Ну хоть бы и бобров порадовать!
I setiously consider this
I very impressed by the fact nobody will ever show what these damn big ass things can see in ANY of these videos......apparently they don't see much .....if they do, then show those of us who would like to get into astronomy
I understand that may be quite difficult. Astrophotography is a serious skill (which I’m sure this chap has acquired) but you need the right equipment - likely gear that lends itself to image capture.
@@inter-linked Yup and also the right telescope for the job, dobsonians like this one aren't particularly designed to do that. This one actually has tracking, so it could definitely produce some nice images of a variety of objects with decent additional gear and plenty of skill. But what these dobsonians excel at is the deep space visual experience. And that's something you can't capture on camera as camera's do not equal eyes+brain. You really have to experience that in person and it's that sense of *really* seeing these things that's so awe inspiring. They're two very different but interesting sides of the hobby.
hermoso
next step 40" :)
:)