Orion RedBeam LED Headlamp with“Motion Sensing,” means, no more fumbling in the dark for a tiny switch. You wear a headlamp to keep both hands free, but how free is your dominant hand when its priority is turning your headlamp on when needed and off when not. In addition to […]
Orion Magnetic Dobsonian Counterweight: If you’ve got a Dob, you’ve likely done it – resorted to zip bags of lead fishing sinkers or ankle weights duct-taped to your OTA. Well, you can stop with the ugly tape residue. There’s now a practical, versatile counterweight solution for fine balance of your […]
Rigel Systems recently introduced the PulsGuide Jr ($39.95US), a shorter (by 1/2 inch) version of its popular PulsGuide guiding telescope eyepiece illuminator for finders. Both illuminators are designed to attach onto the illuminator port of an eyepiece equipped with crosshair or micrometer reticle. These eyepieces are used for guiding during […]
The Orion Pentaprism 90-Degree Diagonal ($199.99US) is a non-inverting, non-reversing 1.25-inch diagonal. Unlike typical star diagonals, the Orion Pentaprism Diagonal does not produce a mirror-reversed image, which can make navigation and referring to star maps difficult while observing with your telescope. But unlike common correct-image diagonals, there is no image […]
The Orion Linear BinoViewer ($499.99US) is so named because it employs a sliding linear housing for adjusting the interpupillary distance (IPD) instead of the traditional folding body. That matters, because the folding types are more prone to collimation problems, whereby the two barrels of the binoviewer become misaligned, causing double […]
The SkEye Planetarium App is an advanced Planetarium app that can also be used as a PUSHTO guide for telescopes. We’ve been enjoying the free SkEye Android planetarium app for years but only recently discovered that it is also available in a much-upgraded “pro” version. Indeed, SkEye Planetarium App basic […]
Orion GiantView ED Binoculars: Serious amateur astronomers looking for the best and brightest wide-field binocular images of the night sky will appreciate Orion Telescopes & Binoculars’ ED GiantView binos. These Orion iantView ED Binoculars combine a large 80-mm aperture with extra-low dispersion (ED) glass lenses for bright, exceptionally clear, true-color […]
Odds are there is a smartphone within reach as your read this, and much of what defines it as “smart” has to do with its sophisticated integration of camera sensors. We use those cameras to capture, well, everything, but because our smartphone-camera focus is overwhelmingly on scenes our eyes can […]
With its huge 155 watt-hour capacity, the Orion Dynamo Pro Lithium Power Supply ($159.99US) will keep your astronomy gear powered up all night long. It features three USB outputs, three 180-watt DC outputs, and one 100-watt AC output. And it even includes a red LED spotlight. No matter what type […]
Catseye Infinity XLKP Autocollimator Collimation Tool: Newtonian astrograph telescope users can now confidently take autocollimator focuser-axis alignment to the next level of precision without the need of a focuser drawtube extension. By design, Newtonian astrographs incorporate a “back-focus” position of the primary mirror’s native focal plane to facilitate image focus […]
Astronomic’s Astro-Tech 152EDT f/8 triplet apo refractor ($3999US) features a massive 3-inch rack-and-pinion focuser with a built-in camera-angle adjuster. The triplet objective includes a low-dispersion FK-61 ED element, as well as a Lanthanum element. The Astro-Tech 152EDT OTA (with rings and both dovetails) weighs 29 pounds (13.1 kilograms). The focus […]
Since 1985, Astronomy Shoppe owner Anthony Costanzo has been in the business of repairing telescopes of all designs and brands. Indeed, for years he has been our go-to guy for repair of arcane telescope electronic systems, especially those treasured scopes for which manufacturer support lapsed long ago. With more than […]