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Q1: Can one do astrophotography with this? My budget is about $1000(really want a Meade 10- or 12-inch LX200 SCT) and aperature rules, this 12-inch sounds right but I would want to later take pictures of planets and DSOs.

A: The Zhumell 12-inch Dobsonian is a great telescope. Like all Dobsonians, though, it's not adaptable to long-exposure astrophotography. You could certainly mate a digital camera to it with the appropriate adapters, but you'd be limited to one or two photos at a time without moving the scope the scope by hand to track the object you're shooting as the Earth rotates. For long-exposure astrophotography, you really need an equatorial mount or wedge and either a clock drive or GoTo capability.

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Zhumell 12-Inch Dobsonian Reflector Telescope

Item# ZHUE003

  • Right angle correct image finderscope makes it easy to locate stars
  • Crayford focuser accepts a full range of eyepieces
  • Center-marked coated mirror provides contrast and definition
  • Excellent reflectivity of 12-inch mirror
  • Cooling fan
  • Easy alignment of mirror via quick collimation screws
  • Provides huge buckets of light
 


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Anyone who has spent much time in the field looking at stars with amateur astronomers is sure to have heard the term "light bucket." Effective yet inexpensive, "light buckets" provide amateur astronomers with the aperture needed to view faint deep sky object. With the quality and precision designed into the Zhumell 12-inch Dobsonian, you can have a really nice bucket for gathering all of that starlight.

With a traditional Dobsonian mount, the Dobson 12-inch is easy to use. A two-inch dual speed crayford focuser accepts a full range of 1.25-inch and two-inch format eyepieces. The 12-inch aluminum oxide/silver oxide-coated mirror provides excellent contrast and definition and offers 1/12-wave wavefront accuracy, along with 92-94% reflectivity. mirror provides excellent contrast and definition.

Mirror Coatings - Aluminum plus Sio2 (Silicon Dioxide)

Combine these features with quick collimation screws (for easy alignment of your mirror), a powerful cooling fan, a black optical tube (which will acclimate to environmental temperature more quickly than other colors), and an included laser collimator (to make alignment of your mirrors even easier) and you will see that the Zhumell Dobson telescopes are more like five-gallon pails filled with spectacular views than your standard, everyday light bucket.

High-Performance Features

  • 12-inch fully multi-coated optical mirror
  • 2-inch format crayford focuser
  • Included 2- to 1.25-inch eyepiece adapter
  • Quick collimation screws for easy mirror alignment
  • Powerful cooling fan
  • 32mm 2-inch-format, wide field and 1.25-inch, 9mm Plossl eyepieces
  • Zhumell 1.25-inch laser collimator included

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