The Orion GiantView BT-120 90° Binocular Telescope is the company’s largest binocular to date, and delivers an incredibly bright image and immersive field of view. Using two eyes instead of one eye provides a much more natural observing experience, and with the large 120mm aperture, these binoculars gather 44% more […]
Tele Vue recently announced a number of product anniversaries, providing a glimpse all the way back the mid 70’s. Here is a rundown of those products. 1977 Tele Vue built and sold a 6.1″ aperture, 279mm focal length, f/1.8 objective way as well as a 5.2″ aperture, 343mm focal length, […]
Sky-Watcher Dobsonian telescopes will be the subject this week on the Sky-Watcher What’s Up? Webcast. Sky-Watcher Dobsonian telescopes blend aperture and affordability into an easy to use package. Sky-Watcher will take a deep dive into the differences and details of every scope in the their telescope lineup. The Sky-Watcher What’s […]
An AstroCAT Imaging Contest has been launched providing a chance to win some unique digital prizes. AstroCAT is the first astrophotographers token on the Chia blockchain. There are 13957 deep-sky objects in the universe as compiled by the latest RNGC/IC astronomical catalog and equal $ASTR tokens minted. Tokens are distributed […]
Astromods is offering custom single row eyepiece boxes. The custom single row eyepiece boxes provide the ability to safely lock/unlock all of your eyepieces in place with the twist of a knob. When locked, eyepieces cannot be shaken from their holes. The Lid folds forwards to form a tray for […]
Astro-Smart is offering custom Tri-Bahtinov Masks made to order. The company offers a variety of optical masks including Tri-Bahtinov which can be made to order for focusing and collimation of refractors and SCTs. Sizes are available from 4-inch to 16-inch apertures. As the Astro-Smart team notes about the custom Tri-Bahtinov […]
The creators of the MOAP telescope piers has developed a new publication, “Telescope Piers: High Performance DIY Piers and Foundations” which is now available as an e-book. The Telescope Piers book was created on the author’s experience with over 550 building projects across four continents. It is more specifically based […]
The CCD Guide 2022 is now available. Every year since 1997, the Astronomischer Arbeitskreis Salzkammergut astronomy club in Austria has published the CCD-Guide in DVD format, which assists astrophotographers in planning their imaging projects. Besides a huge number of reference images, the CCD-Guide contains software to find images, to view […]
The creator of the HNSKY planetarium program has announced the platform has been compiled and released as a beta version for the macOS operating system. Previously available only for MS-Windows and Linux, the HNSKY planetarium program can control your telescope via the ASCOM or INDI interface, has a comprehensive and […]
The new iOptron iCam family of astronomical imaging cameras consist of two color and one monochrome model using Sony IM X sensors. The iCams deliver high sensitivity with low read out noise and each version utilizes a unique DPS (dead pixel suppression) technology and HCG ( high conversion gain) mode […]
The Astrocartica Interstellar Chart is a new astronomy tool offered by Astrocartics Lab, the brainchild of Kevin Wall who hopes to bring new and unique styles of mapping to the cartography of outer space. “Astrocartics” is a word that he created to refer to maps of objects in 3D outer […]
The Askar 107PHQ is the latest product release from Sharpstar Optics. Designed for widefield astrophotography, the Askar 107PHQ is a F/7 Quadruplet Flatfield Super APO Astrograph. The Askar 107PHQ offers a four-element Petzval design which includes a color-corrected triplet objective and a corrector lens built into the optical tube, eliminating […]