The Oberwerk BT-127XL-SD Binocular Telescope is the company’s newest and largest XL Series Binocular Telescope. It features 5″ apochromatic (FCD100 / FK-61 triplet) objectives, with a relatively-short 650mm focal length. As the Oberwerk team notes, “The BT-127XL-SD was designed to be the highest-performing production binocular on the market, without regard […]
Orion Telescopes and Binocular has released the Orion 0.8x Reducer-Flattener for the Orion EON 115mm and EON 130mm ED Triplet Refractors which can help ensure sharp photographs edge to edge when used with Orion’s premium EON Apos. All refractors produce some amount of field curvature, which results in elongation of […]
Last year the amateur astronomy community got a new resource for “simple and practical” items. Joel Short, an astroimaging enthusiast located in Northern Indiana, opened the Buckeyestargazer Shop to make available items he has developed to offer affordable and uncomplicated accessories. As Short comments, “These are simple and practical items […]
Bob Schalck is an amateur astronomer who is now offering engraved wood observatory plaques. According to Bob, “A few folks asked if I could laser engrave a wood plaque for their observatory with the type of telescope they are using. So I designed and made several. These will make wonderful […]
Bill Tschumy, formerly with Simulation Curriculum (the SkySafari app), has released Windows and Android versions of the Our Galaxy app in his Beta 2.0 release. The app is designed to help users visualize the locations and physical properties of deep sky objects in and around our Galaxy. The app first […]
With 50 square feet of total space, and five-foot high walls matched with six-foot high wind break walls of the Explore Scientific Two-Room Pop-Up Observatory Tent, you can set up your computer gear in one room with the telescope in the other, or set up two complete telescope systems. Each […]
The Sky-Watcher USA series of Quattro f/4 imaging Newtonians will be the subject this week on the What’s Up? Webcast. The Quattro series of Newtonians offers three larger aperture telescopes for deep sky imaging work. In this episode the Sky-Watcher team will take a dive into the Quattro series and […]
Knightware has announced the release of a free update to its SQM Reader Pro 3 software. The update contains both a significant enhancement and a new feature. The enhancement adds support for high resolution monitors. The support works best on Windows 8.1 and 10 although it also runs on Windows […]
With exceptional optics, top-notch features and beautiful fit and finish, the Orion EON 115mm ED Triplet refractor telescope offers wide-field observers and astrophotographers a well-crafted, true-color instrument at a great price. Orion has updated the previous design with a more robust focuser, and streamlined the tube rings and dovetail bar. […]
The crew at Orion are obviously feeling awesome about this new product as they have announced, “We’ve got a new, better solution for your deep space astrophotography autoguiding needs: the Orion Awesome Autoguider Deluxe Refractor Telescope Package!” The recently introduced package combines the newly reissued Orion ShortTube 80 refractor with […]
The Orion 7.2-21.6mm Zoom Eyepiece has been a popular accessory as part of the Orion GrandView ED line of spotting scopes. The company is now making the eyepiece available as a standalone offering. Having multiple magnifications all built into one eyepiece allows the observer to quickly zoom to the right […]
ImPPG is an image post processing 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 been released. ImPPG Supports input […]