Any advice and comments are welcome

[Reiska]

I celebrated my Christmas in Poland and Santa brought me this, an old and heavy Celestron C90 Maksutov telescope, made in U.S.A.
It is in excellent condition and has an adapter for Konica SLR cameras. Perhaps I will need a heavier tripod

[PeterW]

What a wonderful present. A really impressive piece of glassware, but I think you're right, you will need a heavier tripod. . Then you ought to be able to photograph the smile on a bee's behind at 100 metres.

PeterW

[mickeyobe]

Reijo.

This might interest you as a subject for that beautiful lens/telescope.
The International Space Satellite is visible with the naked eye but only as a very bright star moving across the sky.
I have managed to spot it twice.

spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/cities/view.cgi?country


Mickey


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[Reiska]

Thanks, Peter and Mickey!

Today I looked through it and I will certainly need a more stable tripod and fast film to get that bee on the negative. Mickey, thanks for an interesting link. Before any satellite I will try to shoot the moon from the sky. Now I am waiting for a dark and clear (and cold ) winter night.

Happy New Year to everybody!