The Williams Optics WIFD GT81 APO is the first offering from William Optics featuring a new Internal Focus Design (WIFD) Apochromatic Series of telescopes. As the William Optics team notes, “The Internal Focus Design (WIFD) Apochromatic Series offers an innovative and revolutionary design which combines a precision (Patented) internal focusing […]
The OGMA AP26 astrophotography cameras are an offering from a new company headquartered in the US in Raleigh, North Carolina. As the OGMA team notes, “OGMA is the name of a yellow subgiant star orbited by a hot exoplanet. It’s also the brand name of carefully sourced astronomy equipment brought […]
We reported earlier this year on the release of the Founder Optics Bino-One 72 and the company has also released the Founder Optics Bino-One 80, a spotting scope with a divergent binoviewer with two 80mm eyepieces designed for 3D views. The innovative, built-in binocular viewer includes two 12.5 mm eyepieces […]
Two new Player One Artemis Cameras have been released, the Artemis-C Pro and the Artemis-M Pro. Both are cooled cameras and are designed for DSO imaging. The Artemis-C Pro utilizes the Sony IMX294 4/3″ format color sensor. The 4.63um pixel size accommodates a well depth of 65.8Ke with a total […]
The 2023 Astronomical League Convention – ALCon 2023 – will be held in Baton Rouge, Louisiana from July 26th to 29th. The event will be located at the Hilton Baton Rouge Capitol Center. The Astronomical League has announced the theme for the conference will be “Astronomical Gumbo,” which represents the blend of […]
The next Masters of PixInsight Workshop is titled “Photons to Photos #12” and will be hosted virtually on April 11, 2023 at 7 PM EDT by Warren Keller and Dr. Ron Brecher who will demonstrate a complete image workflow from beginning to end. Attendees will be supplied with the Data […]
Women in amateur astronomy will continue as part of a month long series on the Sky-Watcher What’s Up? Webcast. During the webcast the Sky-Watcher team will discuss how women in amateur astronomy are making an imprint in the industry as they sit down with Ashley Northcotte of AstroBackyard to discuss […]
The latest version of the StarAid Revolution Standalone Autoguider is the Rev C which replaces the Rev. B. One notable change to the new Rev C version is the power supply and data transmission is now facilitated exclusively via the USB-C port with USB (5.0 V) on the StarAid itself […]
In this issue Matt Harmston and Jack Huerkamp take the new MallinCam SkyRaider SolarCam through its paces for solar system viewing; Dr. James Dire shows that the Unistellar eVscope 2 can offer pleasing views that rival looking through an eyepiece; Matt Harmston does double duty as he demonstrates that doing […]
The new QHY461 PH Camera is a monochrome BSI CMOS camera with 102 megapixels, 16bit AD conversion, offering the highest quantum efficiency with extremely low readout noise. It is a complete redesign of the larger, scientific camera – the QHY 461M Pro monochrome model -providing a new, more compact housing. […]
The Avalon EVO-ZERO T-POD 70 Extender 130 provides the ability to raise the Avalon EVO-zero mount when mated with the Avalon T-pod 70 tripod to 130 mm, providing the capability to achieve clearance when needed from the tripod during tracking. The compact Avalon EVO Zero Mount offers Avalons’ unique belt […]
The ImPPG Image Post Processing Software performs Lucy-Richardson deconvolution, unsharp masking, brightness normalization and tone curve adjustment. It can also apply previously specified processing settings to multiple images. All operations are performed using 32-bitfloating-point arithmetic. A new version of the software, V1.9.0-beta, has recently been released with new features including […]
