Pointing Telescope on a Non-GOTO Mount
Once you acquire a telescope, it is important to know how to point the telescope to a celestial object such as a nebula or galaxy so that you may be able to see the object and photograph it. If you have a GOTO mount, you enter or select name of the object such as Orion Nebula or Andromeda galaxy and the telescope slews and points it towards the object. The GOTO mounts are costlier than the those without the functionality. In case you have a non-GOTO mount, how do you do it? In any case, you need a tracking mount – the mount moves automatically to compensate for the rotation of Earth so that the object in the viewing field of the telescope doesn’t go out of the field – to see or image for minutes. Non-tracking mount might be good enough only for observing and imaging planets. Pointing Telescope Without Camera This case is fairly simple. You directly see the object through eyepiece of the telescope by moving your telescope appropriately using manual controls provided with t...