The Best of NEAF 2025 - Day 2

Welcome to Day Two of 2025! In today's video, I'm exploring even more incredible new astrophotography gear from top brands, including: - **DayStar Filters**: Discovering thei...

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@soffici1
@soffici1

Great coverage, thank you very much for the effort you put into researching before asking the questions

@blobrana8515
@blobrana8515

Nice exciting products, and great reviews. The skymapper software seems like a good concept. However the 'Pay for views' business stratagy is perhaps not ideal. Astrophysics is onto a winner again.

@the_space_koala
@the_space_koala
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There’s other platforms out there already where you can sell time on your telescope. I wonder how this will work with these more entry-level telescopes. I think a scope time swap could be a nice concept (the example I mentioned in the interview - between southern and northern hemisphere skies). But their business model requires a cash flow otherwise they don’t make anything I’m afraid

@dedskin1
@dedskin1

https://youtu.be/5P3ErBQlb0g?t=1423 that is a Floriate scope , that is a true APO and it will image , for flat field of course a flattener but that Borg be imaging .

@azcharlie2009
@azcharlie2009

PlaneWave and Astro Physics make some really nice stuff!!! But, they cost a lot of money!!! Maybe someday in my next life??

@ruud9767
@ruud9767

Best NEAF report in years! (Yes I also saw day 1 and was so impressed that I immediately subscribed.)

having had a ap 130f6 and 152f7 a few decades ago, i can confirm waiting list is crazy lol currently i only use a TV NP101 and a smal etx125 and that´s it, also a canon 15x50is

also have had a couple of lzsos APM ones with a 130f6 of 99 strell, then TEC 160ed and 180fl, the TEC 180 was my favorite apo ever, but it was heavy and thus now at over 50 i like the TV np101

@benjohnston1303
@benjohnston1303
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The Astrophysics rep is great! I love that Carl Sagan 1980 outfit!!!

@jims9982
@jims9982
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This is the best NEAF coverage that I have seen. Thank you so much for this video. That 190mm f/6 StarFire CS (190CS) is awesome.

@SunriseHorizon
@SunriseHorizon
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Thanks for the nice coverage, super cool to have such a summary for us who cannot attend! Cheers

@the_space_koala
@the_space_koala
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Thanks! Happy to share the good stuff with everyone who couldn’t make it! Cheers!

@richards3192
@richards3192

Nice coverage Luca, but no Vixen feature 😢

@the_space_koala
@the_space_koala

Sorry about that! You’re right I still had to miss a few companies. I’ll do better next year

@WilliFromEarth
@WilliFromEarth

A truly global community and very international supplier and dealer group. I wonder how the new tarifs will affect this market…. And the customers. Nobody will win.

@taras3702
@taras3702

It's looking like anything made in China will more than double in price thanks to this trade war, which was in the making well before Trump kicked it up a few notches. Even without it, things are getting a lot more expensive due to inflation.

@WilliFromEarth
@WilliFromEarth
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Astrophysics … I will never get it…. Just hire or subcontract… It is all about QC and QM… why can’t they scale up? They need to look for a proper investor…

@Lab00Rat
@Lab00Rat

1150GTO - Can it be disassembled into two part like the 1100? The Mach2 cannot be taken apart, so I'd want to know if the 1150GTO can be broken down into two parts for transport.