{"id":57808,"date":"2012-11-14T14:45:29","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T14:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/uncategorized\/orion-starmax-video.php"},"modified":"2012-11-14T14:45:29","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T14:45:29","slug":"orion-starmax-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/orion-starmax-video.php","title":{"rendered":"Orion StarMax &#8211; Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>Orion StarMax<br \/>Get a great deal here redirect.viglink.com?key=1f0527e04637dcdb26bf99b11836bfbf out=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eamazon%2Ecom%2Fdp%2FB0056F0TCS Customer Reviews \"I ordered this scope as a Christmas present this past season and it is very nice. It has a good wooden alt-az mount, which can sit on a table top. It also has a great feature in that the bottom of the mount has a threaded hole so it can be mounted on a tripod (included in this kit). Both the scope and tripod are very lightweight and can easily be placed in the car to go to dark locations. I #39;ll also note that the telescope tube itself also has a tripod mount threaded hole on it, for alternative mounting options. (I haven #39;t explored these yet, but it looks useful down the road.)This kit includes three lenses (25mm, 10mm, and 6.3mm) and a very easy to use finder scope, though I have yet to get it fully adjusted. (That, however, is probably on me, not the scope!) Images are corrected to be right side up, but they are still left-right reversed. So keep that in mind for daytime usage. For astronomy, it is a little weird to be half-corrected, but you get used to it very quickly.The only shortcoming, and the reason for not giving it a full 5 stars, is that the overall design is just too wobbly. Mounted or sitting on a table top, it is impossible to focus while seeing anything. Many scopes share this fault, though. But you end up playing a game of:adjust - pause (to stop wobbling) - adjust - pause - repeat...until you can see ...From:shan hamrickViews:0    0ratingsTime:00:54More inScience   Technology<\/p>\n<p>See original here: <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=u0-cTCHQ03s\" title=\"Orion StarMax - Video\">Orion StarMax - Video<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Orion StarMax Get a great deal here redirect.viglink.com?key=1f0527e04637dcdb26bf99b11836bfbf out=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eamazon%2Ecom%2Fdp%2FB0056F0TCS Customer Reviews \"I ordered this scope as a Christmas present this past season and it is very nice. It has a good wooden alt-az mount, which can sit on a table top. It also has a great feature in that the bottom of the mount has a threaded hole so it can be mounted on a tripod (included in this kit) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/orion-starmax-video.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57808"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}