APT stands for “AstroPhotography Tool” and it is like Swiss army knife for your astro imaging sessions. No matter what you are imaging with – Canon EOS, Nikon, CCD or CMOS astro camera – APT has the right tool for planning, collimating, aligning, focusing, framing, controlling/tethering, imaging, synchronizing, scheduling, meridian […]
The Second Annual David H. Levy Arizona Dark Sky Star Party (ADSSP) event will be held on May 20th – 24th 2020, featuring the legendary Comet Discoverer David H. Levy, as well as other prominent astronomers and astrophotographers. The event is located at Arizona’s Kartchner Caverns Dark Sky Park, a […]
Explore Scientific will be hosting an OpenGOTO Community Event focusing on the PMC-Eight Platform and Mount Systems on April 1, 2020 – one day before the North East Astro Imaging Conference (NEAIC 2020) and the North East Astronomy Forum (NEAF 2020) being held from April 2-5, 2020. This event will […]
Bill Tschumy, formerly with Simulation Curriculum (the SkySafari app), has released the “Our Galaxy” app that helps users visualize the locations and physical properties of deep sky objects in and around our Galaxy. The Our Galaxy app serves as a reference to turn to when you read about an object […]
Nikita Misiura is an astrophotographer and software developer who created the StarNet++ software system which provides the ability to remove stars from astrophotography images. As Misiura notes, “StarNet++ is neural network-based software that can make star removal from images simpler. The idea was to train a neural network that can […]
Sirius Astro Products owner Bill Beers has announced that he is retiring and closing his astronomy products business. He will be selling out his remaining inventory until it is gone. Beers recently commented, “After 14 years of supplying our red screen products world-wide to our astronomy community, we will be […]
At this year’s Winter Star Party, TeleVue founder Al Nagler gave attendees a preview of a special accessory attachment for late models of the company’s popular 55mm Plössl eyepiece. The new accessory will be introduced later this year and converts the telescope eyepiece to a 67mm focal length with a […]
Pegasus Astro has introduced a new USB Control Hub for the astrophotography market. One of the unique features of the hub is that it is certified to work from −40°C to +85°C and offers electronics has been selected to support Industrial grade temperature ranges. The hub also has the ability […]
The team at Backyard Observatories has announced they are building a new remote telescope hosting facility in Northern Ohio. The “NORTH” (Northern Ohio Remote Telescope Hosting) observatory complex will be ready to host telescopes later this year in Chatham Township, Medina County Ohio located on the edge of Amish country. […]
The ‘swiss army knife’ of star diagonals, the Baader FlipMirror II Star Diagonal (BFM II) offers 3 adjustable configurable output ports and a high-quality flip mirror. Its multitude of adaptations give the imager and visual astronomer practically limitless ways to couple and operate multiple instruments, cameras, guiders, off axis guider, […]
Clearline Technology Corporation uses modern materials, components, and processes to create replacement parts for the venerable Meade Instruments LX-200 telescope. Among its current lineup are the Motor Encoder Board – LX200 Classic/LXD650/LXD750; Calibration Tool for LX200 Motor Encoder Board; and a Boot-Up Emulator for the Meade LX200 Hand Controller. They have now […]
The Sky-Watcher SolarQuest offers a highly portable and easy to use mount for Solar observers and eclipse chasers. You no longer need to worry about aligning your equipment the night before or the early morning. The SolarQuest mount is designed to automatically align itself to the Sun with only the […]