Monday, August 24, 2020

Celestron Firstscope Play


Unistellar
Another day gone by waiting for a reply from Unistellar to fix the faulty eVscope, now five days waiting for the a reply. I sent a new email in case the old one was lost.

Sky
The sky has become crystal clear, ideal for telescopic observing.

Celestron FirstScope
Up to Bat
The "Cat's Pajamas" is this adorable and immensely cute Celestron
FirstScope tabletop telescope bought at Toys'R"Us in Beijing China.
The 3-inch mirror completes its Dobsonian design, but it has no finder
cope or drive. It has a very smooth and slick Dobsonian mount which
is used mainly for land experiments, and solar/lunar/planetary astro
imaging with hand held cameras. Mike Otis
I have no working telescopes except the tabletop 3-inch Firstscope Dob reflector made in China. It has no drive, no finder, and the f4 mirror is spherical, not parabolic. Yet, it's a good land telescope and it takes very interesting lunar images like the one shown.

Celestron
I'm thinking about starting over with the CGXL and Celestron telescope to see if we can get it to work

Evscope
As the telescope is stuck on the steady purple LED and won't boot up to the red light, the scope likely has bad software and the fix may be a replacement of the micro SD card with updated programming

Toy?
Some claim the Celestron FirstScope is nothing more than a child's toy. Indeed, the throw-away eyepieces had worthless plastic lenses and melted during a hot day. Nevertheless, I used better eyepieces and decided to play around by creating a number of interesting projects. More to come so stay tuned.

Celestron FirstScope - Index
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