Celestron Advanced VX 6″ Newtonian

5 reviews for Celestron Advanced VX 6″ Newtonian

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   Rated 5 out of 5

   – February 14, 2024 Prof. Alek Schmitt Sr.

   The mount is amazing for the price. I removed the 6inch reflector and sold it. I have an 8inch reflector with a 1200 focal length and it holds the weight of the 20+ lb scope and all of my camera equipment without a problem. Had some slight issues setting it up but that is because I had it set for standard mode instead of the correct daylight savings. Very happy with my purchase. Pic included of the scope and the results of going out the first night without knowing what im doing.

2. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   – July 20, 2024 Dr. Kenya Nolan

   This is for me a truly gem for Astronomy and Astrophotography, my third telescope in use. I’m very impressed with the quality and sturdy size of this product, the tripod is heavy, the C6 Newtonian is awesome with crisp images of faint objects!With this mount you can reach a badass tracking without autoguiding systems. The package come with carefuly and confort, I can’t still content the emotion!GREAT CELESTRON GREAT

3. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   – July 22, 2024 Dr. Edgar Nitzsche MD

   Excellent mount and the scope is great as well. Perfect for any beginner. First night using it, took only about 10 minutes to align the scope and objects I plugged into the controls ended up dead center in the eyepiece. And I didn’t even have good polar alignment. Once I perfected the polar alignment whatever object I was viewing stayed in view all night long. The scope was well collimated right out of the box.I use this for astrophotography and couldn’t be more pleased with the results. As far as astrophotography goes, the t-ring needs to screw directly into the focuser (I use a Canon T3i). If you try to use the Celestron T-adapter with this scope you will NOT be able to achieve focus. If you have good polar alignment you can take unguided photos with exposures as long as 120 seconds with no star trails easily. I’ve heard of other people getting up to 180 second unguided exposures.Bottom line is this, well worth the money on an entry level EQ mount, and the scope is an added bonus.

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   Rated 5 out of 5

   – September 4, 2024 Delta Lowe

   I’m a previous owner of the 6 inch Celestron model shown here. Having just bought the much more expensive 8 inch Schmidt Cassegrain model, I feel the views through the 6 inch f/5 Newtonian are much sharper and have more contrast. You will need to invest in a Cheshire eyepiece though. This relatively inexpensive tool will help you collimate the telescope to provide the sharpest and clearest views possible. Don’t waste your money on laser collimating tools. Most of them are not calibrated properly and this makes them worthless.

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   Rated 5 out of 5

   – September 7, 2024 Desmond Bruen

   ~UPDATE 5/12/2015~After columnation, I’m blown away. I can see moss growing on trees a half mile away, I can count the tips of the leaves.Light collection is sufficient to show Jupiter as an extended object, but too bright to see banding. Still need to get a higher mag eyepiece to see if it will help.——————————–I can’t find anything wrong with this scope.In my light polluted suburban front yard open clusters, planets, double stars, and other bright target are easily seen. Dimmer objects like galaxies are a tougher but may still be visible and with more depth than about any telescope I’ve tried (including a 16″ dob mounted newt).Alignment while not straight forward should not be a problem once you’ve played around (be sure to align your finder scope first, as the mounts first crack doesn’t put you anywhere near the stars you are gunning for during alignment) however after adding calibration stars it is spot on EVERY time!I can’t wait for the seeing to improve this fall as the air dries out and cools off to try some deep space imaging at my dark sky site!I recommend an eyepiece kit that will give you a little more magnification if you want to look at solar system objects.