This COULD have been the BEST Telescope EVER?! (Unreleased Skywatcher HAC125 Review) 🤔✨📸

The Skywatcher HAC125 telescope, despite its potential to be the best telescope ever, is unlikely to be sold commercially due to design flaws. It offers incredible live views and imaging capabilities for its low price, but suffers from issues with star shapes and collimation. While the telescope has limitations, its unique features and affordability make it appealing for astrophotography enthusiasts who can use editing tools to address its shortcomings.

Telescope's Potential

• 00:01:30 The Skywatcher HAC125 telescope has the potential to be the best telescope ever due to its ability to provide live views of deep sky objects, including the Andromeda Galaxy, and capture impressive images. It offers a near-real-time viewing experience, allowing for observation of satellites and other celestial events, such as meteor showers.

Telescope's Design Flaws

• 00:02:42 The telescope's design, featuring a fast focal ratio, leads to issues with star shapes, which appear elongated or trailed in images, despite its impressive detail capture. This is due to the telescope's optical design and the challenge of achieving perfect collimation, making image quality less than ideal without post-processing.

Image Editing & Enhancement

• 00:03:42 Despite the star shape flaws, the telescope's captured images can be significantly enhanced through the use of a deconvolution tool called BlurXTerminator. This tool effectively removes blurring from images caused by poor optics and atmospheric conditions, transforming otherwise flawed photos into works of art.

Reasons for Unreleased Status

• 00:06:25 The Skywatcher HAC125 telescope's finicky nature, including the use of restrictive 'lipstick' cameras and difficulties in adjusting the primary mirror, are reasons for its failure to reach the market. The telescope is also very susceptible to the buildup of dew on the secondary mirror, leading to further complications with achieving a uniform image.

Observatory Setup & Future Videos

• 00:07:06 The presenter plans to showcase their observatory setup, including how they use the HAC125 telescope for a unique sequence of sky targets. This setup utilizes two rigs: one for astrophotography and the other for live viewing. Future videos will delve further into this custom setup and showcase how to optimize it for a stellar stargazing experience.