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Sold Celestron Nexstar 8 with lots of accessories

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alexzogh

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Given the crossover between rocketry and astronomy, I thought I would try and offer our family telescope here before putting it up on ebay/craigslist.

This is a Nexstar 8, not an 8SE, 8i, or 8 evolution, but the original 8. Has the all of the goto functionality and great tracking, but starts with manual alignment. You can buy a GPS accessory to automate the setup (called skysync), but I never bothered since we didn't move it very often.

This comes with travel cases, and lots of accessories - check out all of the photos.


I'm asking $500. You can pick up in Northern Illinois, or I'm happy to bring to Midwest Power at the end of the month, or a Bong launch.

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Impressive photos. Funny this should pop up today, as a coworker was asking me this morning if I had any telescope experience(which I do not). However, it stirred me enough to lead me down the rabbit hole of researching them. THAT was a huge time-suck!!! LOL.

GLWS, wish you were closer!
 
Wow somebody out there in the midwest needs to take that deal. The Nexstar Taiwan oculars are better than the newer mainland Omni ones. Nice work on those photos too Alex.
 
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Careful!

If you think rockets are expensive, you should price the outfitting of a home observatory.

I noticed!!! And, I live in the country with minimal diffusing light, so, it would be wicked cool.......*sigh*......stupid Dave Ramsey plan......😂😂
 
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