We are scheduling to start shipping D50L scope tomorrow.
You can choose OTA only or mount sets.
Player One Filter Drawer
The filter drawer allows to shoot with the conventional Canon/Nikon(with an adapter) lenses and Player One Poseidon camera through a filter.
1.5mm filter glass thickness is ideal for the uncompromised optical performance.
StellaVita APP 2.0
StellaVita APP has been upgraded. Now Ver.2.0 is downloadable.
I will update mine and see how things go changes.
Although I didn’t know when StellaVita worked with the consumer cameras, now it looks supporting them too. Let me test.
Sightron Japan 1st Astrograph
Following to D50 achromat, SJ is scheduling to start shipping the premium 6-element imaging scope middle of this month.
- 75mm/F5
- 6 elements including 2 x SDs and 1 x ED glasses
- ULR(Ultra Low Reflection) coated lenses
- Special anodizing technology to be extremely blackened inside a tube and parts (1% reflections from UV to IR)
SJ 50/F16
What a scope! I talked to myself while looking thru an eyepiece. “Is this just 50mm aperture??”. The sky was at least better than last attempt.
I enjoyed observing the Jupiter. I set Masuyama 1.5x and MOP-15. So it was 80x. Very bright and clean view. 80x view encouraged me to push more. But unfortunately I didn’t have 12.5mm. Another proper eyepiece was 10mm, which takes to 120x. It was definitely too much. Most likely 80x – 100x seems to be the proper mag. with this scope at my backyard.
It’s amazing to see the performance of this small and lightweight scope. 800mm focal length is usually 4 – 5″ They are much bulky and heavier. This scope is just 1.3kg! Grab-n-Go by single hand.
Also 800mm is perfect with 1″ square sensors like Player One Saturn-M.
I will try to shoot when the lunar phase become favorable next time.
SJ ALT-AZ Mount – Hirth Joint
All mechanical engineers know the name of the person who invented the joint, as their common sense. I saw this connection type But I didn’t know who invented.
Sightron’s ALT-AZ mount uses the Hirth Joint, which allows to adjust the ALT arm angle while still maintaining the solid connection. This is a really practical and reliable joint indeed. (BTW, EMCAN Mount has the Hirth Joint too)
Pointing to the zenith? No problem!
SJ D50L
Seeing was terrible last night due to the Santa Ana wind. Instead pleasingly warm. Over 80F daytime these days. Sorry to the people who live in the winter stormy areas.
Anyway, I pointed the scope to the Moon and the Jupiter.
Masuyama 15mm was proper one for viewing the entire the moon. It was exactly what I was expecting – very good contrast.
The long FL achromat always reminds me of the experiences when I was observing thru GOTO 80/F15 50 years ago.
The Jupiter’s 2 bands were somehow visible.
Unfortunately the sky was not good condition. I will re-attempt over this weekend.
Sightron Japan D50/F16
Will be available here in US soon.
Well blackened inside a tube. I looked thought the blue sky. It was totally dark inside a tube. There is nothing shining inside. Well-made and beautiful fully-multi-coated objective lens. So we can expect extremely high contrast lunar view. I tried tonight if the sky is clear.
Player One New Cameras
Player One new cameras – Mars 662M and Xena 585M will come in stock soon.
ToupTek HOPE D60
This is 1st test by D60.
D60 + Canon Ra, 98 x 2′
Looks very nice! The scope seems to perform as their publishing. It should be the premium wide-field telescope. The illumination power is more than 90% at 22mm radius. So I’m sure it is quite comfortable to the full frame camera owners even under the light polluted sky too.