Why it made the cut: This mount offers a great balance of portability and maneuverability while also being great at ...

At its core it’s a Newtonian reflector telescope like many others available on the market, but the Sky-Watcher Explorer 130 EQ2 has something different in the shape of its equatorial mount (EQ).

She reveals on her Facebook feed that she shot the image using her Celestron C11 Edge HD telescope on a Sky-Watcher EQ6R-Pro equatorial mount, using a 2x Barlow and a ZWO 664MC camera. At the time ...

An equatorial table is a device used to compensate for the Earth’s rotation, enabling telescopes to track celestial objects accurately. It aligns with the Earth’s axis, allowing the telescope ...