Telescope Reviews: OBSERVATORY made by own -- MANDII (HONG KONG)

DEAR ALL ,

What is amenture astronomy ?

NO.1)

astronomy = find a deep sky object by your own + take a photo of it

To me , astronmy means to find objects in the deep sky , I used to find it by myself ( not machine) in an eyepiece . It's just like your are checking out some interesting tiny things under the eyepiece of microscope . And I do get the most FUN of this when the exciting moment come where I intentionally plus occasionally catch this object in the BIG deep sky . After that , you know we always need to take a photo when we go travel to a place around the world , so samely I take a photo of it , this photo may not necessarily to be a very good photo , just can see the object is pretty enough for me . And then keep this photo as my good memory of what I did for this object in teh deep sky . Each photo of Deep sky objects remind me how the time I find them out . Such whole process is called amenture astronomy , for me , that is the main reason I setup and design my compact rooftop observatory . I believe most probably in the comming years of time I will keep to use the same equipments without too much changes . They are an Orion 6"/F5 newtonian , EQ3 mount with a RA motor , 10X50 binocula , and DSI-I camera , or Digital camera(omlypus C-40Z) or a we cam(philipes npc700nc) .

http://www.cloudynights.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Cat/0/Board/deep/Number/4268545/page/3/view/collapsed/sb/5/o/all/fpart/1

No.2)
astronomy = Observe the moon cracters together with the use of a Moon Map ,navigate the moon surface for each craters , and take a photo of this spot site .

http://www.cloudynights.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Cat/0/Board/lunar/Number/4268580/page/1/view/collapsed/sb/5/o/all/fpart/1

NO.3)
Astronomy = Daytime use a telescope to observe Birds or plants over the hill nearby , samely take a photo of it . It is very exciting when the time you find such small birds on a tree plank over the distant hill . Even newtonian scope can be modified to do so to observe the territoral objects . Even newtonian can be used to observe the birds and shoot the birds . I am doing in such way with a newtonian scope . And even do some imaging as well .

http://www.cloudynights.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Cat/0/Board/cameras/Number/4960998/page/1/view/collapsed/sb/5/o/all/fpart/1

What is the best format for your personal Observatory?

I like Dome because of it's shape , Art of architecture .
My pirority factors are mainly three points before decide to make a Dome observatory ,

i) What should I do to get the most of it ( fun ) with the least costs input on this astro-hobby in my comming years of time . This factor fix those equipment input , cost , size ,quality ...

ii) Which type of Observatory can have most big usage in variety purpose ,
Night time can be used for shooting stars , how about other things such as Day time it can be used to shoot the birds , or do some Plants imaging over the hill nearby( in my case). Or use as a leisure room , playing online games etc ...
In this factor , it deterimines how big the observing view an observatory should have .
And it determines what kind of material is used for better heat insulation on summer day time . ( beacused it is used not only on the nighttime but daytime also )

iii) make it by own , or make it by dealers .
This is talking about the Cost of the project .

Happy to ALL OF YOU !

Best Regards,
MANDII
2012/01/30

Edited by MANDII (01/30/12 02:40 AM)