You can say: Yeah! Buy a goto telescope and you will see your problem solved! Well, you are absolutely right! However, because of my electrical background and because I like to consider myself hobbyist, my first thought was: - I can (and I will) build a DIY controller for my telescope. After a couple of nights using my telescope, I realized that it should be helpful if, at any moment, I can compare my telescope position with the position of the target that I am looking for. Stellarium is an open source project with a lot of helpful astronomy features, including a plugin that allow a connection between a computer and a telescope controller (like celestron, meade or sky-watcher). To help you to know the sky, there are several software's you can use and stellarium is my favorite one. It's a nice mount (cheap, portable and very easy to use), but to get what you want to see, you need to know the sky like the palm of your hands (which can be a problem to a beginner like me.!).
Recently, I bought a 8" Newtonian telescope that came with a Dobsonian mount.
1 instructables Control Your Telescope Using Stellarium & Arduino by NelsonFerraz I am fascinated by astronomy since the first time I looked to the night sky.
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