Review on 🔭 SVBONY SV503 Telescope 80ED F7 OTA: Enhanced Views & Astrophotography by Michael Eldridge

SVBONY first, please DO NOT hype it up! They'll sell a ton of these, just keep up that quality and I'll be a frequent customer of your astronomical gear! Okay, I didn't want to check it before taking some test pictures. First Impression: + Very nicely done, check out the built in rotator with turnbuckles. I don't see this on much more expensive scopes, it's usually an optional accessory. + Feels solid, although I checked all the screws to make sure they were all tight, some were a bit loose. + The focuser is like butter, very nicely finished, I like the bottom thumbscrew to loosen or tighten the focuser. + Moisture protection is good and tight, with other brands I have had problems where the dew protection slides down too easily. That is exactly what is needed. + The lens is great! (See pictures) I don't see much chromatic aberration at all. Those who don't know what it is say that these lenses in scopes bend light to focus it in the eyepiece, and inferior lenses tend to create that rainbow-colored halo around stars and shiny objects because the light is in the spectrum . Don't focus entirely on the bottleneck. Usually this is corrected by using another lens (those sights called triplet apochromatic telescopes), but the price goes up, goes up sharply. For this double lens telescope, that's fantastic! Of the minuses: the dovetail mount on the telescope is too small. It deserves a much larger size but I won't complain too much because we're talking about price and I wouldn't mind buying a bigger mount for it. Now let me show you some photos I took, both very short exposure times as the clouds came up early. For the rest of the hardware I used, here it is: Mount: EQ 6R-ProGuiding: Guiding failed, I haven't set it up yet, I have some hardware/software. Conflicts that need to be resolved with my lead camera and main camera. Focus: Sesto Senso 2 autofocuser (newer addition) Camera: ZWO ASI533 Pro Software used: - EQMOD (to attach to mount) + ASCOM drivers - SharpCap Pro (for live stack - see image) - NINA - night vision software (See Whirlpool Galaxy ) - Siril - Overlay software (to merge partial images into one image) Photoshop - To correct aliased image (noise, cropping, brightness/saturation, etc.) Image properties: Whirlpool Galaxy = 19 minutes 19 x 60 seconds (!) I had Clouds rolled up in the Bode Galaxy + Cigar Galaxy = 41x30 seconds stacked in real time and manually stretched in SharpCap and saved unmodified. No other adjustments were made.