Jupiter with Celestron 114mm PowerSeeker Newtonian Reflector Telescope

. The *Celestron PowerSeeker PS 114* EQ was given to me as a gift about eight years ago, at the time it was $105 on Amazon. This one is *not* a Bird Jones design (no corrector lens in the focuser, unlike the utterly dreadful PS 127 EQ, as well as the newer Astromaster 114EQ) and comes with a good quality spherical mirror. The focuser is a bit sloppy, but I rake it almost all the way in, and my Sony IMX290 camera is quite small and lightweight. Note that the PS 114 EQ optical tube is often described as cheap junk, by self appointed internet telescope experts. And in a feature article on USA Today this week : Dr. Herbert W. Hamber, Ph.D. is professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Irvine. His fields of research cover quantum field theory, particle physics, computation, gravitation, and quantum cosmology. He is, among other things, a former staff member in the Theoretical Physics (Th) division at CERN, the European Center for Nuclear Research, and a member of the Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS) in Princeton NJ. He is the author of two physics textbooks, ‘Quantum Gravitation: The Feynman Path Integral Approach’ and ‘Nonpertubative Methods in Quantum Field Theory’. In his spare time, he enjoys photography, driving fast cars, attending airshows and practicing deep sky astrophotography. More information can be found at www.researchgate.net/profile/Herbert_Hamber Theoretical diffraction-limited resolution for the PS 114 EQ is 1.18 arcseconds...