Comment on Telescope for a newbie: Smart app enabled?
LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
Seriously, just get a pair of binoculars.
You don’t need a telescope to see a lot of cool shit. Just a dark sky and time.
Telescopes, especially ones you look into without a camera, generally only add a handful of targets to look at.
Download the Stellarium app, grab a pair of binoculars, and go sit out and look at stuff.
If you really like that, upgrade to a used Dobsonian 6" manual telescope.
If you really like that, get a seestar smart scope to get cool pictures you can share with people.
If you really like that, then start building a high end camera getup that uses open ASCOM apis that you can control from a laptop.
There’s baby steps to the process, and no real benefits from skipping steps.