How to Use a Spotting scope for Astronomy

Kowa ambassador Martin Tomas, shares his knowledge of astroscoping with us! You'll learn all about how to use a terrestrial spotting scope for astronomy, what can be seen and in what detail and how to use your smartphone to take photographs of celestial objects such as the moon, stars, galaxies and planets.
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[@Marmots4reFun]

Thank you for this most educational and entertaining presentation. Very helpful and very inspirational!

[@kowasportingoptics]

Thank you for watching!

Excellent presentation! Thank you! I definitely recommend any Kowa scope users to look at night sky - you will be amazed! Really these fuorite optics are insane!

[@shem44]

Is kowa 66 with TE11WZ II good enough for ASTRO viewing without zooming in?

[@kowasportingoptics]

The 66 with TE11WZ will give you 25x optical zoom which is a good magnification for moon viewing etc - the Fluorite crystal lens is superb for astronomy

[@birdwatcher4147]

Have to watch tomorrow, busy morning, so could not watch full video.
I do a good lot of digiscoping with my phone, but its mainly videos, because of shake (blurring) on pictures. Where as the movement in the video do not cause this problem
How can i overcome this problem.

[@jbouton2]

You have to determine where the shake / movement is coming from to correct. With the high magnification of a digiscoping system (700% - 800% higher than a standard 400 mm lens), you have to control movement as much as possible. Requires a stable tripod mount, and a solid digiscoping adapter to hold the system in place.

SCT 6 has central obstruction (the mirror at the front covers some protions of the primary mirror) of 14% by area, and 9,25" has 13%, so not the whole aperture of SCTs should be taken for calculating light gatehering ability. The better for Kowa as spottong scopes use full front lens area. And reflecting several times the light ftom reflecting surfaces also causes light losses - sometimes by several percent. One advantage of bigger aperture is for sure better resolution. I am far from being an expert here but still, these are quite a valid points that one should take intio account when comparing equipment. Additionally another + for Kowa is very high contrast compared to obstructed optics like SCTs, Newtonians etc - Kowa wins hands down every time with mentioned here scopes in that department. Energy from central obstruciotion is pread out in to whole objective area causing the black sky background to became grey. Subjectively humans percieve it as an image of excellent quality. Good contrast does it's job here. So far on several star parties my Kowa 99A goes ahead of many many much bigger scopes regarding subjective joy of shown images. I wish it was better designed to accept astronomical accessories like binos etc...

This is to Robert... :D Your background image has stars with spikes - they were not photographed with Kowa scopes for sure. :D LOL Details that sometimes matter :)

[@kowasportingoptics]

Correct - it was just a nice background picture ;)