Newstar 200mm Dob

[wild geyser]

There's a 200mm NewStar dob for a real low price. F=1200mm, Made in China. Is this a cheap knockoff and not even worth it?

[odd comet]

Do you have an image?

And what is your budget?

[wild geyser]

Budget is 300 cdn. This is listed for 150.

[odd comet]

That is a steal, you should buy it

But what fo you want to observe with is

[wild geyser]

Everything lol. I want to start into astrophotography and the wife wants to do visual of planets and nebulous and such.

[odd comet]

Then it's a good telescope

Also really cheap

[wild geyser]

Its just almost impossible to find info on it so I was not sure if it has junk mirrors in it or not. I did find out it was a hobby stores house brand that closed down in '22 in Toronto.

[odd comet]

Well you can ask photos with the mirrors

You can ofc clean them and then colimate, but it is better to make sure that everything is good and not rusty or scratched

Then you'll have a problem

[thorn tapir]

Wrong scope for imaging

you can't expect both from a dob

At your budget if you want to soley do AP look elsewhere and forget about visual

tbh 300 isn't realistic

For visual it is

Forget about imaging

[thorn tapir]

Let me rephrase a little bit

If you want to spend your entire time tinkering and hacking 300 bucks will get you something albeit not a great scope for imaging

For visual you can get a great scope for 300

For visual you need a large scope

[wild geyser]

I realize that there is no beginner scope that can do it all. Just more curious if this scope is a steal at 150 or I am wasting my money.

[thorn tapir]

I would get it. Just don't expect to take images

tbh idk if its worth it either

for 150 bucks you probably can't beat it

Learn the sky first with the dob

Get rid of the focuser too lol

put a new one on

[thorn tapir]

I should rephrase a little on this too you CAN take images. Do I reccomend it not really

It would be more work than its worth lol

I personally don't know enough about the optics in that scope

[wild geyser]

Ive also have an eye on a AZ-EQ5 mount that so far is waaaayyyy under price. With that I can maybe start looking at a scope for imaging.

[thorn tapir]

its a crapshoot but its 150 bucks

[thorn tapir]

Not big enough for the dob

[thorn tapir]

I would get a eq6r or larger

You usually want to oversize your mount by a large margin

[wild geyser]

I know.. I think 30lbs rating. But I was thinking of getting another scope at that point to put on it for imaging and have the dob for visual

[thorn tapir]

Cut that in half :p

30 lb's is the visual rating

I would say not even 30

The mount is everything. There is a reason I use my 102 on a mount that can hold a c 14

[wild geyser]

Thanks for the advice/info.