Cameras Good For Night Sky And Vlogging

It was so exciting for me watching night sky.. I am happy that my good choice!!!!

Nice telescope. A good device to start your night sky experience.

It captures everything. Took it to the night sky and I was blown away.

GREAT FOR HUMMINGBIRDS, NIGHT SKY, PORTRAITS

Incredible value. Excellent lens. Use it for night sky.

I use it mainly for night sky photography. It's very sharp. Image attached.

I just used this eyepiece last night at a dark sky site in the Sandhills. This Plossl is a good intermediate magnification with my long focal length Mewlon 180c reflector. It's also useful with my Takahashi FC-100 refractor. Televue's 20mm was used often last night. I really think these Televue Plossls are a good fit for even the best telescopes. You can see the difference.

I bought this lens primarily to have a usably fast lens for night-sky photography. I use it with a 5D Mark IV, and it serves this purpose quite well great sharpness, wide open. It also has proven quite good for shooting waterfalls, and for more general landscape photography; it is an excellent lens, and I'm happy to have it among the ones I can pick from. Although I've used autofocus for 25 years, I've had no problem with the Zeiss's manual focus. In most instances, I've simply used the lens's scale to assure that the distance range I want in focus will be in focus at the selected aperture, and that has worked very well. When more precise focusing has been necessary, I have used Live View 10x with good results (except when looking toward bright light, such as late afternoon sun). As essentially all reviews of this and other Zeiss lenses have stated, Zeiss focusing action is very smooth; this and other manifestations of the outstanding build quality of the lens make it a pleasure to use. When a wide view is desired and manual focus might be problematic, I have the Canon EF 16-35 f/4L IS, which is also an excellent lens, except for night-sky shooting. However, I use the Zeiss for more than night-sky work for situations that could be handled well by the 16-35 because the Zeiss is so nice to use and gives great results. It definitely is expensive, a fact driven home when I compare it to my Canon EF 100-400 f/4.5-5.6L IS II, an outstanding lens that includes great autofocus and image stabilization not found in the Zeiss, yet costs a bit less. But I knew that before buying the Milvus 2.8/18; using it has increased my certainty that it was a good purchase.

This is my first telescope, and I have been impressed. It was easy to set up, and the skyalign three bright star alignment procedure is very easy. You just point the telescope at any three bright stars (you don't have to know what they are) and the telescope will figure it out and give you a good alignment for the rest of the night. I can put the system together and get aligned in less than 15 minutes. It is easy to use the hand-held controller to find objects in the sky. I was able to have a good time looking at the moon and deep sky objects on my first night of use. My one complaint is about the red dot starfinder. It was so far off line when I mounted it that it couldn't be aligned with the scope within the limits of the adjustment screws. I had to make shims with toothpicks to get the starfinder in close enough alignment that I could then use the alignment screws to achieve good alignment. Everything about this scope seems first rate except for the starfinder and its mount. I am very happy with my purchase.

We lecture on cruise ships -my subject is astronomy. For night sky sessions I wanted a smaller lightweight inexpensive pair with reasonable lightgrasp to check the sky. The price was a little less than a X Cel LX eyepiece! Lightweight, great resolution and contrast, good colour in the stars, good field width 6.8deg. Great value, compact and very useful.