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Maximum Astronomy
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Welcome to my channel, Maximum Astronomy. It’s a spin off on my name, Max! I want to thank you for visiting and watching my videos. I enjoy this hobby of astrophotography so much! Especially when I can share it with everyone else. Ever since I was little I’ve had a telescope, and enjoyed looking to the night sky. Now, years later, with some bigger and better equipment, the night sky reveals itself in a new way. With a telescope, dedicated astronomy cameras, filters and more, the wonders of the night sky come out…..one object at a time. Even though they’ve been discovered before, we can rediscover their beauty for ourselves. Come along, and let’s photograph and enjoy this hobby together. Because after all, astronomy is for all!
The Celestron ORIGIN: An In Depth Review - Is it Worth your $4000??
The new Celestron Origin Home Observatory sought out to make astronomy available in any household. This smart all-in-one telescope combined astrophotography and simplistic ergonomics to make anyone an astronomer. This new telescope to the market combines all kinds of the latest technologies from Celestron and incorporates them into one easy to use package. In this video, we dive deep into the Celestron Origin, its features, the use, and the photos it produces. This telescope is certainly the king of automated smart telescopes out there. Come along as we explore Origin from top to bottom and find out if it is worth your $4000.
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Introduction : 00:01
Optics : 01:42
Mount : 03:38
Camera : 04:57
Onboard Electronics : 06:30
Other Features : 08:44
The App : 14:15
Under the Night Sky : 23:09
Final Thoughts : 42:05
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Feel free to skip to a section you may be interested in:
Introduction : 00:01
Optics : 01:42
Mount : 03:38
Camera : 04:57
Onboard Electronics : 06:30
Other Features : 08:44
The App : 14:15
Under the Night Sky : 23:09
Final Thoughts : 42:05
If you enjoy my videos, please drop a like, and hit that Subscribe button! It’s greatly appreciated!
Follow me on Instagram! maximumastronomy?igsh=NWpkb2wwMjFtNTB6&
Follow me on TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@maximumastronomy?_t=8ii079mxED5&_r=1
#celestronorigin #telescope #stargazing #astrophotgraphy
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I want one but $4,000 plus is not acceptable.
Wow! Beautiful! But way too much work, lol!
Have an XLT version deforked recently. Put it on AM5. Works like a charm, much more manageable as tube itself is about 18 KG. Love it!
Noob here with genuine question on moon watchers... Even if you have a +50k$ telescope, what is the fun of watching the moon once you already spend +40 hours watching it in various lighting/phase conditions? Don't get me wrong, it's one of the most beautiful/impressive space object with incredible details, but it doesn't change much and once you have all your great pictures, what else is keeping you into the hobby? Sure, you also can get the other planets and various objects, but even then... Aren't they all very subtle variation of themself once you have spend some time on them? This summer, I went to my local observatory and spend an awesome night until 4hAM with club members. I wish more peoples get this experience once in their life. But when I compare... I started microscopy few months ago...🔬 Even if I watch two soil/water sample, I'm garantie I will have a lot of different shape/size and comportment. I can even induce stimulus to provoke change, etc. I can also use the scope to make various health diagnostic. It can be use 24/7 and with a 300$ instrument, you can enjoy the hobby for the rest of your life.🦠
I agree with your prediction that if this model is successful, we'll see an 8" and 10" in the future.
collimation hell?
Great review. Yes, it looks amazing. But, I still love my Seestar. I can take it anywhere. Though the Origin's image quality is very impressive.
This mount is a total junk. It's cheaper, but it's totally useless. Very difficult or impossible to polar align, and no matter how well you do it, you still have star trails on exposures longer than 10 sec. It wobbles, no matter what you do. The original tripod is weak and very unstable. If you want to throw the money out the window, buy it.
Why no pictures of the sky through this telescope
In France this is NINE times more expensive compared to the Seestar S50. Is it that much better though? I don't think so
I looked through a 45" at a star party many years ago and that one blew me away! I can only imagine how impressive the 70" views are.
Thank you for your excellent review. The Origin is impressive instrument but so is the little Seestar in its own way. I also imaged M 17 from my Bortle 6/7 backyard and compared my results with the image shown in the video. While the Origin outperforms the Seestar, the Seestar image is 'almost as good' and both instruments certainly provide better views than I've ever seen through an eyepiece.
100% the truth!
Hi i will be Reciving my tomorrow and wanted yor opinion on what filter will you recommend to se objets and planets whit my kid and family I do have this ones: Celestron 93624 Narrowband Oxygen III 2 Filter, Celestron 94124 2-Inch UHC/LPR Filter, Celestron 94305 Two-inch Eyepiece and Filter Kit, Orion 5562 2-Inch Variable Polarizing Eyepiece Filterand I know you liked Optolong L-eXtreme F2, and it is one of my next buys if I share to buy 2 more filter what will be your opinion?
The filters you described are for visual observing. I am not confident they would work overly well with the origin. The clear filter it ships with will be your best for the moon and planets, star clusters and galaxies. A good nebula narrowband filter like the Celestron origin specific one, the L-extreme f/2, IDAS NBZ high speed are all great choices for nebulae. Hope that helps! Clear skies
Can the app go in to night app mode? My astro club will kill me if I have a non-red app driving the scope!
Yes it does! :)
Tx for the video, will be checking for next version, the camera is not worth the price tag for me.
I bought one and I love it. I have an 11”SCT and the Origin was an easy way to get into astrophotography. The images are terrific.
I really wish one of these companies would release a smart telescope specifically for moon and planetary imaging
I have a few issues with this telescope. First is the cost. Secondly, what about field rotation from what I presume is an Alt-Az mount. How would it run if you threw it on a wedge? And, of course, the added expense of said wedge. Overall, it’s a good video and I was curious about this unit. I have a SeeStar and it cost $100.00 to throw it on an EQ mount. With the EQ mount, I’ve images a target for 2 hours straight with no field rotation and zero frames rejected. To me, who also owns a full size Edge HD8 with HyperStar, it’s not worth the price.
I found one at a thrift store that missing the knob that hold the tube to the base. Do you know what size that knob is? Thanks
How many mounts do you have? In your videos, I have counted 5 mounts.
I have owned various equipment over time for reviews, testing and such. My primary mount is an Orion Atlas Pro AZ/EQ.
@@MaximumAstronomy Are you planning to compare AP Mach2 with this mount?
I am buying the ipad Pro13 M4. Which ipad case do you use?
ZWO AM5 with tripod $2298.00 Apertura Carbon Star 150 $849.00 ASI 533MC Pro $799.00 Optolong L Extreme $309.00 Sharpcap with live stacking $18.00 Total $4274.94 Better telescope, better equatorial mount, better filter, better camera, better stacking.
This is for people who aren’t interested in figuring things out. They just want to spend the money, plop it down and watch it work. It’s cool for getting people into the hobby who otherwise wouldn’t be, or keeping people interested who have a short attention span, low frustration threshold. Price point is 1,000 too high IMO.
Nice video, thanks.. I hope for a biger sensor cammera..
The T-Rex was the icing on the cake...9:50
I have a cgx that went to celestron years back because it had the runaway issue. Now it behaves but I do have that weird vibration noise like you first showed. I'm going to have to try your technique.
Can't find telescope position! Point telescope at a clear area of sky.
Me who doesn't have $4000 dollars: very interesting indeed
your very good
very loud
The cable to the camera is to BIG. It should half that size. Also the camera is TOO small.
Excellent review. Thank you! Awesome scope. Please review the Vespera Pro!
Very nice review. Thank you! Question: do you have to level the tripod and calibrate the compass before each use for the goto to work accurately like on the Seestar? Also, what about lunar tracking and solar tracking (solar filter?)?
Thank you very much! For the tripod you do have to level it but there is no compass inside to calibrate. It all does based off its plate solving software to locate the sky once you’ve put in your location in the settings. As for the planets and solar system objects, I am currently working on a video for that! But there is no dedicated function for them like with the SeeStar as of yet.
@@MaximumAstronomy Thanks so much for the quick reply! Very helpful. I'm sure Celestron will continue to add features via software upgrades over time. Will be interesting to see what they do. I think there is a significant market for these smart scopes. I'm part of that market as astrophotography is interesting to me but I don't have the time or desire to go down yet another hobby rabbithole to learn everything necessary to build my own rig. It is odd to me, though, that so many seem to be gatekeepers for this hobby and don't like people like me to be able to image the sky without having to go through the long learning curve. I guess that's true of many hobbies, though. "I did it the hard way, so you should have to also" (I'm obviously not talking about you specifically, just the general tone I pick up on various forums)
I totally get that. Everyone has their own path to whatever part of the hobby they want to invest time and money into. And yes there are a lot of people who dislike the smart telescopes because it takes all the small things away that matter to them. But to each their own! Smart telescopes aren’t for everyone. Big imaging rigs aren’t for everyone too. Enjoy the hobby in whatever capacity you choose to explore! That’s the fun of it! :)
What gets me is that there are other smart telescopes in the same price but lower specs and people praise those but then people are so critical of this...
I’ve heard many good things about the Stellina and other “premium” smart telescopes and I think why this one gets scrutinized is because Celestron is a very popular brand that has been innovating for a long time in our hobby. Other smart telescopes like the widely popular SeeStar have 90% of the same functionality at the end of the day. The price point is what is killer for folks. In some ways, this product isn’t anything “new” really. It’s just a mix of their current offerings slammed into one hybrid product. And evolution mount you can get for $1200 if you were to buy it alone. That means the 6” RASA OTA is $2800 with the onboard electronics, which is crazy! An 8” RASA and your own dedicated camera with better specs would be cheaper in that regard. And I think that’s why this gets so much criticism is because Celestron wants high end money but it doesn’t do anything really the Seestar and some others do for a fraction of the cost, but the Origin just does them a little faster is all. I’m a huge fan of Celestron, I just don’t think this is going to be a slam dunk winner like their regular RASAs have been. The Seestar has the same stacking, the same Alt Az, dew heater, automatic finding of targets, plate solve, etc etc etc but yet cost $499. This is 8x the cost just to do everything a little faster and a larger aperture.
@@MaximumAstronomy The value of the seestar cant be beat for sure. However, the evscope 2 is 4.7K on amazon! Sure, us experienced guys could get this for less but to have these kinds of capabilities with all the fans and dew heaters and everything ready to go out of the box, no setting back focus, collimation, dealing with tilt, etc. does have value for others and while the seestar may provide the same experience for EAA if you want high resolution quality images the seestar falls way short. Great and thorough review. Thanks for your time!
I wanted the Celestron Origin, but it's too heavy and bulky. I got the <10 pounds Seestar S50 instead and pocketed the rest. I do love the electro-mechanical sounds the Origin makes when it's in operation.
Which Ipad do you use? How do you get WIFI in the middle of nowhere? Which Sky Safari app do you use?
I am sure this works like the Seestar, that I own - it connects to your phone or iPad with WiFi - not to the internet. WiFi in this case is simply a way to connect to your device to control it.
I use the iPad Pro for mine. You connect to the WiFi that the evolution mount emits itself. All of this integrates with the Origin app for usage.
@@MaximumAstronomy. Thank you very much, sir but I was just curious which iPad you actually use. Your video has convinced me to get the origins. I just don’t know which iPad to get and I want to get a good one.
@@MaximumAstronomy thank you sir and I really appreciate your time. I really like your review and the time you spent on the Orgin. It definitely convinced me to get one and now that iPad Pro.
6 hours isn't all night. It's only part of it. The camera is sub par for DSO imaging. AZ mount do i need to go on.
The device isn’t for everyone, that’s for sure. It is limiting in what it can do, and for the price point you should get a little more for your dollar.
4K . Not a chance 👎👎👎
I bought it and think it’s awesome. I own many telescopes, and think that it is a great machine. Very impressive for what it is. It’s totally easy to use.
Something fishy about this scope. Bortle 8 and you getting those images? Seems like it is downloading them from celestron. Would be interesting to see if it still pulls this without any internet data connection, but then again it could plate solve and pull the images from internal memory. Which would explain why the AI images it produces look so artificial.
@@aliceh6538 The only WiFi connected was to the mount. I did not have my home WiFi connected in any way. These were straight from the telescope without processing. The only one that was is the 30 minute exposure on M17 towards the end. Everything else was straight out of the telescope.
People said the same thing about the Seestar. Amazing that Seestar has an image of the trees in my yard in their database, which I can see in the raw images. (that's sarcasm btw) There is no way these devices have the capability to store so much data onboard. It would be very easy to verify that the images were being downloaded from a remote database so hardly worth the effort on the part of the manufacturer.
Thank you. Great video. Have the Seestar and trying to decide on Origin. This helped
Glad I could help
Really need to see how jupiter looks in it
These types of F/2 scopes are NOT designed for planetary viewing
Nutty price
Since last 5 months, i wait unprecedentedly for reviews start showing up so i could definitely take my final pic between Origin and Vespera Pro. 3 weeks ago i took a sudden turn and choose the hard path and begin my Astrophotography crusade and bought a basic rig under CA2.7k including used Canon M6. Now, thanks to your review and final thoughts, i feel just more confident about my decision since i needed that feeling of getting rewarded for my efforts; in which for sure after few weeks i wouldn't probably feel anymore with smart telescopes of any kind. Awesome detailed review!! Thanks!
@@awnstar2139 I’m glad I could help! Enjoy :)
Nice review. Good job!
thanks for the review
My pleasure!
Can you see craters on the moon with it?
Of course you can!
I still feel you loose something when the photons of the distant object are not hitting you retina. Nothing goes further then to connect me with distant objects then to have their actual light in my eyes. Let alone use A.I. to aid in image generation. I want to be able to actually see my targets.
Well done on the review mate. Damo
Thanks!
never mind , in alta zimuth you cant track your target correctly because the telescope cant rotate the camera , other issue is the thick wires in front of the telescope distort the stars , and your are limited because the power , in equatorial mounts you can use variety of telescopes
That is very true. But I don’t think Celestron is intending this to be a full on Astro-imaging rig replacement telescope. I think this is for quick observations and folks that want EAA over a full on imaging setup.
Talk is there is a wedge coming.
Would have been worth it if it used sensor like the IMX676, IMX585 or even IMX715 which could get smaller objects like galaxies! I used a IMX715 in my RASA8 and could even image objects as small as M57! One of those camera and a wedge and you really don't need anything else! The benefit of the IMX676 is 2um pixels x 12MP and ultra low dark current noise so no need for cooling. Thanks for the review!
I agree the chip selection could have been better. But the one they chose isn’t a bad selection. But with better chips available and the premium price point, it’s a little bit of a let down.