> any tips? not much, i have an old but nice etx-125, the only thing i might do is put it on a good mount like an eq5 or eq6 i bought a support for the phone on aliexpress, an actual sturdy one, with precise screws and that's how i am going to take photos of the planets. a friend has a seestar, around 700 euros, you put it on an horizontal surface, it knows where it is and can take very nice pictures of galaxies, star clusters, nebulas, really amazing but totally different usage, you can set it up outside and be in your home near the stove and see the pictures appearing slowly. next thing for me, a bit more /skg/ related is to build a yagi antenna to observe hydrogen line on 1420 mhz, it can be light so i might be able to put it on the telescope
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