The Rockland Astronomy Club (RAC) has announced they are rescheduling the NEAF event and the NEAIC imaging conference date to September 14-15, 2020. Instead they will be hosting “NEAF: The Virtual Experience” on April 4. Here is the NEAF organizational team’s announcement: Due to the Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic, Rockland Community […]
Xerxes Scientific launched last year with the purpose of creating semi-custom telescope mounts and control systems for astronomical imaging. Their initial product designs were the D11 and D21 direct drive modules which are part of their modular telescope mount system, which can either be incorporated into custom telescope mounts or […]
Telescopi Italiani has announced the availability of its TI35 f/3.5 Astrograph Telescope in a f/3.5 figuration. The TI 35 (350 mm of clear aperture) is based on the same Modified Harmer Wynne optical configuration as Telescopi Italiani’s TI35 f/5 system. The TI 35 offers a very compact, light-weight, high-end performance […]
Lunático Astronomía has released the Seletek Limpet, a new streamlined focuser controller that will drive most motors in the market and attach to most focusers. With a small 12V battery and a WiFi interface there are no cables coming out of the telescope. Offering the same functionality of other Lunático […]
Lunático Astronomia’s new Lunático Last Line of Defense Observatory (LLLOD) software is designed to be there, hidden, in your observatory computer, waiting to take action if anything goes wrong. In a nutshell, it will monitor certain elements, periodically, and take control of and close the observatory if the circumstances become […]
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 – the APT AstroPhotography Tool has the right tool for planning, collimating, aligning, focusing, framing, controlling/tethering, imaging, […]
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 TeleVue 55mm Plössl eyepiece. The new accessory will be introduced later this year and converts the TeleVue 55mm Plössl to a 67mm focal length […]