{"id":2520,"date":"2018-11-17T19:14:10","date_gmt":"2018-11-17T17:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.planetary-astronomy-and-imaging.com\/?p=2520"},"modified":"2018-11-18T01:23:21","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T23:23:21","slug":"imaging-planets-altazimuth-dobson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetary-astronomy-and-imaging.com\/en\/imaging-planets-altazimuth-dobson\/","title":{"rendered":"Planetary imaging with an altazimuth Dobsonian"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span
style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px;\">No need of an equatorial plateform anymore<\/span>!<\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>We have long believed than field rotation prevented Dobsonian telescopes with an altazimuth tracking from taking images of planets (apart of very short videos). After one year of experience with a Skywatcher Flextube 305 I can assert that such instruments can make superb planetary telescopes without any limit, thanks to modern softwares.<\/p>\n<p>This technic opens the way to much cheaper, much bigger, or even both, instruments.<\/p>\n<p>Download my conference on the Rencontres du Ciel et de l&#8217;espace by clicking on the image below:<\/p>\n<p><em>(Beware that this is an\u00a0<a
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