Deagostini assemble your telescope. Collect Your Telescope (DeAgostini). Telescope from a magazine - to collect or not
Build Your Telescope Magazine makes it easy to observe the gas giant Saturn
Get to know the sky better! In each issue of DeAgostini's “Collect Your Telescope” project, you will find fascinating and easy-to-understand articles about celestial bodies, clear illustrations, and a map of the starry sky. But in addition to the cognitive and encyclopedic value, the publications of this series are of great practical importance. The elements attached to each number provide an opportunity for everyone to assemble their own telescope step by step in order to organize their own observatory on any open area or balcony. You can enjoy the assembly process and become the owner of a high-precision instrument for effective optical approximation of celestial bodies and their study.
In each release there is an assembly guide that allows even without experience to easily cope with this task. To achieve the goal, it is important for the collector to be attentive and accurate, and if necessary, you can always resort to the help of hotline consultants: for residents of the regions - 8-800-200-02-01, for Muscovites - 8-495-660-02-02.
Features of the assembled telescope
After connecting all the elements, you get a 1 m reflector telescope with a ø114 mm objective, 1 arc second resolution, f / 8.7 relative focal length. The light sensitivity of the assembled device is 265 times higher than the capabilities of the human eye. The maximum stellar magnitude is 12. The telescope is complemented by filters, eyepieces and a host of other auxiliary elements, a suitcase for their storage and a comfortable stool for the researcher.
Buy magazines of this series - assemble the telescope with your own hands and experience the fantastic sensations, studying the myriad of stars and discovering the universe from a new angle.
Collection format
Each edition of the series includes a monographic journal intriguing readers with a particular celestial body, and some elements for the assembled telescope. You can broaden your horizons, have a good time reading magazines, assemble a real telescope with your own hands and fully use it to study the starry sky.
« Assemble your telescope"Is a fascinating magazine, addressed to both beginners who are discovering the secrets of space for the first time, and to more experienced amateur astronomers. Each issue contains telescope parts and a monographic magazine dedicated to a particular celestial body. Publisher DeAgostini.
Stars, planets, galaxies - explore the sky in your personal observatory. For the first time looking through the eyepiece of a telescope, we experience an unforgettable experience. The firmament seems to swing open in front of us and show unknown treasures. The seemingly empty space of the sky is suddenly filled with myriads of stars, indistinguishable from ordinary eyes.
Telescope
With the new collection, you can follow the detailed instructions, step by step, to build your professional telescope - a high-precision instrument, easy to assemble and able to optically bring celestial bodies closer, provide an opportunity to study them and observe them from a new angle.
Telescope characteristics:
- Model: Reflector Telescope 114/1000
- Objective lens diameter: 114mm
- Total length: 1000mm
- Resolution: 1 arc second
- Limit magnitude: 12
- Focal length: f / 8.7
- Equatorial mount
- Light sensitivity: 265 times higher than the human eye
- High quality optics and other components
- Easy assembly
- Indoor and outdoor use
The telescope is equipped with eyepieces, filters and many other useful accessories.
Accessories in addition to the telescope
- Optional LCD finder
- Optical collimator
- 3 Kellner eyepieces (diameter 31.8 mm)
- Bracket for digital camera
- Barlow's lens
- Mylar solar filter
- Solar screen
- Lunar filter
- 12 color filters
- Compass
- Level
- Red flashlight
- Optics cleaning kit
- Fabric cover
- Accessory case
- Astronomical Observation Stool
Magazine
Discover the universe with magazine Collect Your Telescope... This is a unique scientific encyclopedia about space, which will take you on an unforgettable journey through our galaxy. Each issue of the journal is dedicated to one of the objects in space and is filled with a lot of interesting information, scientific data and curious facts.
On the pages of the magazine:
- How to find stars and planets
- How to read star charts
- How the constellations appeared
- How to navigate the starry sky
- Where stars are born
- How to search for comets and asteroids
- How to photograph the sky
- and much more..
Assemble Your Telescope Release Schedule
№1 – Finder, cover, star map – 19.08.2014
№2 – Finder mount, eyepiece tube for focusing assembly – 06.09.2014
№3 – Focusing unit housing – 16.09.2014
№4 – First handle, half ring (1/4) – 23.09.2014
How many issues
Total planned - 80 issues
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Hello Vladimir!
I can say good about a telescope with such technical characteristics. For an amateur - the best option. First of all, it is easy to handle and maintain objects in the night sky, the quality of the image that can be obtained from it largely depends on the objects of observation. As a telescope for exploring the planets of the solar system, the sun itself, galaxies and star clusters - wonderful! ... True, the spiral structure of galaxies is far from always manifested (the luminosity is still a little lacking). But personally, I use such optics with great pleasure (though another company is Levenhuk). I think it would be better to show you the capabilities of the telescope than talk about them for a long time. Therefore, I am sending you a series of photographs taken with a similar telescope (all photos are copyright and, if necessary, I can give for each of them the parameters and shooting conditions, as well as the additional equipment that I used).
(Moon, 20mm eyepiece lens)
(Moon, "South", Barlow lens x2)
("North" of the Moon, Barlow lens x2).
If possible, I will try to send you photographs of other bodies of the solar system a little later.
And, I must confess, I would very much like to read something from your work, because I love science fiction since my youth. If there is such an opportunity, please do not consider my humble request as arrogance.
And, of course, a completely separate tale regarding the improvement of the telescope:
Of all the possible improvements, three main paths can be distinguished, which are ideally combined with each other:
a) Filters. Filters are different and they are "sharpened" for each separate type of observation. So, to observe the Sun it is vitally necessary (!) A special reflective solar filter, which allows only 2% of its sunlight to pass through (otherwise you can lose your eyesight or start a fire). To observe the Moon (and the object is very bright), a so-called "Moon filter" is needed - a greenish tint of glass increases the contrast of the image several times. There are also polarizing lunar filters, but they are much more expensive and therefore recommend the "simpler" one for a start. Different light filters are also adapted for the planets - yellow of various shades, red, green, blue (stripes on Jupiter are clearly visible in blue, and the polar caps of Mars, for example, through red). A special filter has also been developed to absorb electric light: this is an indispensable invention for city residents. This filter blocks the light from the lanterns (blocks the "light pollution of the sky") and only lets in the light from stars and nebulae.
b) Barlow lenses. These are special attachments for the eyepiece, which increase the magnification of the used eyepiece lens by 2x (or 4x) times - depending on which LU is used. But where there are pluses, there are also minuses: how many times the LU increases the magnification, by the same amount it reduces the field of view of the telescope. Therefore, it is best to use them for a more detailed study of certain features of the diskop of planets and satellites. To me personally to watch the stars through it seems not informative.
c) Automatic tracking of the object. As far as I understand. the EQ3 mount is still manual. This creates certain difficulties, especially when working at high magnification: objects quickly run through the field of view and sometimes it is already problematic to find them. Therefore, there is a nozzle for an equatorial mount - a clock drive. It costs pretty decent, but this price matches the quality and features. It is put on directly on the mount and after pressing the trigger you can "forget" that the cosmic bodies are moving - they will remain exactly in the field of view of the telescope.
The described "improvements" are, so to speak, a "gentleman's set" for a novice astronomer-amateur, which, as experience is gained, will expand more and more depending on the priority preferences of the owner of the telescope.
P.S .: Unfortunately, sometimes the answers to questions do come with some delay, but this is due solely to technical issues; nevertheless, every question that comes to the site is very important to us, and we try to make the answers as useful as possible for our visitors.
Best regards, Vladimir Yurkovskiy.
New Collector's Edition Build Your Telescope by DeAgostini Publishing House will surely appeal not only to beginners, but also to amateur astronomers. Each issue contains a lot of informative information, as well as details for a real professional telescope. After collecting all the elements, you will receive a tool that will help in the exploration of the endless Cosmos.
Each issue contains training materials, which describe in detail how to assemble a telescope, how to use it, how to navigate in the sky and what secrets our Universe keeps.
Release Schedule
# 1 - Seeker, cover, star map - 08/19/2014
No. 2 - Seeker mount, eyepiece tube of focusing unit - 09/09/2014
No. 3 - Focuser mount, double-sided handle - 09/16/2014
# 4 - The first handle, the first of the four half rings - 09/23/2014
Frequency: weekly.
How many issues in the “Build Your Telescope” collection are there in total?
80 issues planned.
Collection "Build Your Telescope"
It was not difficult to acquire the first issue of Collect Your Telescope magazine. As announced, the publication entered the kiosks on 19 August. No city searches and overpayments. The recommended price is quite satisfactory. Despite the fact that the attachments in the form of a lid and a finder look like metal, it turned out that the objects are plastic, just painted to resemble metal. At first it was a little upsetting, but after a thorough examination at home, it became clear that everything was done efficiently. The lid is perfectly shaped, without deformations and other flaws. The finder is an ordinary two-lens Kepler tube. The lenses are made of glass and are well finished. True, a fingerprint was found on the inside of the lens, but no scratches. I think this is a good claim for quality. I will look forward to the second issue. Hopefully the mirrors will be at the same level.
I think that I will assemble the telescope completely, unless, of course, finances fail. Children are looking forward to watching the starry sky. Well, how can you refuse such an opportunity to usefully spend evenings with your family? The good news is that you can buy separately rooms with additional accessories. It's good that such a series has appeared.
Recently, the magazine "Collect your telescope" from the DeAgostini company appeared in the kiosks of BelSoyuzPechat. Colorful illustrations, interesting and informative information. But the main thing is that each issue contains a "piece" of the telescope, which you can assemble by purchasing all the issues.
What can you see through a telescope from a magazine?
With a diameter of 114mm, the telescope achieves useful magnifications of up to 230x! This is enough to examine in detail the craters, seas and mountains on the Moon, to see the moons of Jupiter and the rings of Saturn. And if you go far out of town, you can look for nebulae, galaxies and star clusters.
But there are also nuances.
1. With a focal length of 1000 mm, the telescope has a length of 400 mm. This is good when it comes to mirror-lens (catadioptric) telescopes (MAK). But in our case, this is classical Newton. To fit a long focal length into a short tube, a special optical corrector is usually used. But this technology has a significant drawback - the corrector negatively affects the quality of the resulting image. Thus, we get a telescope with a high magnification, but the picture in it will be unclear ((
2. The magazine comes with a lot of secondary accessories: light filters, eyepieces and other useful, but not necessary things. As a rule, these are entry-level devices of rather low quality.
To get acquainted with astronomy, 2-3 basic eyepieces are enough. Over time, as your knowledge and needs expand, you will want to supplement the set, but with QUALITY professional-grade eyepieces. At the same time, cheap accessories will be completely useless and money will be wasted.
3. A telescope is primarily an optical device containing mirrors and lenses. Now imagine how the "caring" loaders of BelSoyuzPechat will ship them ...
4. The magazine is published every week. 80 issues planned. This is about 20 months, which is approximately 1.5 (one and a half) years!
5. Price. Now the magazine costs 59,000 rubles. Multiplying by 80 numbers we get 4,720,000 rubles. This is a good price for a telescope. But taking into account the nuances of the design, we would recommend paying attention to the classic, serial ones without a corrector.
Telescope from a magazine - to collect or not?
If you love collecting and the process is important to you - a series of magazines from Deagostini will be an excellent purchase. They are colorful and interesting. And over time, you can build a real telescope!
BUT
If you are too lazy to wait a year and a half and collect 80 issues
- if you want to get a really high quality telescope that minimizes distortion and gives a good picture
- if you don't want to spend money on the included cheap accessories
- if you are afraid to collect half of the collection, and then find a mirror broken by the neat loaders of Soyuzpechat
And no matter which option is closer to you, we are glad to welcome you to the ranks of astronomy lovers!