A change to the Vernonscope Dakin Barlows has been announced by the company as it has updated its 2” 2.4X Dakin Barlow design. The 2″ Vernonscope 2.4X Dakin Barlow can be used with telescopes that accept 2” eyepieces. This Barlow is made with very high quality glass lens that gives […]
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Pegasus Astro NYX-101 Harmonic Gear Mount
The Pegasus Astro NYX-101 Harmonic Gear Mount is a portable EQ/ALT-AZ mount that incorporates high precision strain wave (harmonic) gears. The company is in final development of the mount and will be displaying the mount at the Advanced Imaging Conference 2022. The Nyx-101 mount weights 6.2Kg and is capable of […]
Askar Universal Dovetail Rails
Askar universal dovetail rails in Vixen and Losmondy styles are now available. Many dovetail plates have only a few holes and slots for attaching your astronomy accessories. But these high-quality dovetail plates from Askar include plenty of connection points and give you many options to securely attach your tube rings, […]
Berlebach Tripod Releases
Among the Berlebach tripod releases include the Report Anniversary Edition Tripod and Graviton Tripod. Report Anniversary Edition Tripod On the occasion of Berlebach’s 120th anniversary, the company has produced a limited edition of 120 of this high-grade tripod made of high-quality walnut wood and hand-polished brass fittings. The tripod has […]
ZWO ASI533MM Pro
The ZWO ASI533MM Pro is a cooled monochrome camera that comes with an impressive full well of 50,000e and a large 9.05MP sensor. The size of the sensor gives this camera a 14 bit dynamic range and provides astrophotographers with crisp clear images. This camera offers high-quality features like high […]
Askar FRA300 Pro
The Askar FRA300 Pro is the latest in the Askar FRA line of short focal ratio astrographs. The Askar FRA300 Pro, is the smallest 60mm F/5 Petzval astrograph with the fastest native focal ratio in the FRA series with a focal length of 300mm. At the center of its field […]
Orion EON 90mm ED Triplet
The Orion EON 90mm ED Triplet Apochromatic Carbon Fiber Refractor is the newest in the company’s line popular EON “apo” refractors. The fully multi-coated 90mm (3.5″) triplet lens assembly has a focal length of 540mm, for a f/6 focal ratio. One lens element is made from FCD-100 extra low dispersion […]
ImPPG Image Post Processing Software
ImPPG Image Post Processing Software is an astronomy image post processoring program that 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 has recently […]
nPAE Ruby Eyepiece Turret
The new nPAE Ruby Eyepiece Turret holds six 1.25” accessories. The Ruby Turret offers parfocal locks that keeps all the eyepieces in the same focal plane. Each lock has parfocal ring that can be adjusted to add between 0 to 6mm of additional backfocus, or the parfocal ring can detached […]
Celestron StarSense Explorer Dobsonians
Celestron is expanding their smartphone-compatible telescopes with the new Celestron StarSense Explorer Dobsonians. Joining the StarSense Explorer LT and DX telescopes are 8” and 10” Dobsonians which are the ideal option for anyone interested in exploring amateur astronomy. Thanks to the Celestron’s StarSense app’s user-friendly interface and detailed tutorials and […]
Valley Vista Getaway Astronomy Vacations
Valley Vista Getaway Astronomy Vacations in southwestern New Mexico caters to amateur astronomers providing a vacation getaway to view or image the night skies, for birdwatchers and hikers to base out of when visiting Cave Creek Canyon, for digital nomads to work remotely, for rockhounds to base from and for […]
QHY533 Camera
The QHY533 Camera is a new generation of back-illuminated CMOS cameras with 3.76um pixels in the same family as the sensors used in the company’s flagship models QHY600 and QHY268, featuring zero amplifier glow, low noise and high sensitivity. The IMX533 sensor is a 9-megapixel, 15.97 mm diagonal (11.29 mm […]