The Mallincam SkyRaider DS10c offers a sensor that is 21.8mm measured diagonally and it has 10.7million pixels. The sensor in the camera supports Contrast Gain – a mechanism for boosting sensor sensitivity. Said Jack Huerkamp with Jack’s Astro, “During testing when Low Contrast Gain (LCG) was employed, Physical Gain had […]
Clearline Technology Corporation has made available a new Boot-Up Emulator for the Meade LX200 Hand Controller. When the LX200 Classic with version 3.xx software starts up, it expects a “handshake” with its hand controller. Without that conversation, the telescope will not complete its start up, and thus cannot be used […]
The special edition single-shot color ZWO ASI128MC Pro camera is ZWO’s first full-frame color astronomy camera. It utilizes a full-frame 24 megapixel CMOS Sony sensor with TEC-cooling. The ZWO ASI128MC Pro camera features the full-frame Sony IMX128 CMOS sensor with 6032×4032 resolution, 5.97-micron pixel size, 76000e full well capacity, and […]
Yes, you read that right, it’s a Revolution Imager Fine Finger Feather Focuser. At ATT, we love a cool, handy new product. And if you add alliteration to it, we are all in! All kidding aside, the team at Revolution Imager has come up with a nifty tool that provides […]
For those of you that are not familiar with Precise Parts, owner Ashley Stevens started the company in 2002 in Miami. They specialize in making precision custom adapters and one-of-a-kind telescope accessories. With their online Build-An-Adapter platform, almost any custom adapter can be designed and ordered online in just a […]
The JMI hard shell case for Celestron AVX mounts is another product that continues the unique approach that Jim Burr and JMI Telescopes created in offering novel products for the telescope industry. These innovations included Wheely Bars, the Motofocus, and others which became household words to the amateur astronomy community. […]
Warren Keller and Ron Brecher with IP4AP are teaming up again to present a three-day PixInsight workshop in Dallas, Texas on March 22-24, 2019. The workshop will be held at Spring Creek Academy, 6000 Custer Rd., Bldg. 5, Plano, TX, 75023, USA and is limited to 30 attendees. If you’re […]
The 2019 Winter Star Party “WSP” will be held at Camp Weesumkee in 2019 from February 4 – 10. The upcoming event will feature its long-awaited return to the Florida Keys as it was displaced in 2018 due to the devastating effects of Hurricane Irma. It has taken a tremendous […]
Tim DeBenedictis with Southern Stars has announced that Orbitrack, its iOS app for tracking satellites, is now updated to version 2.1. Orbitrack is a thorough rewrite of Southern Stars’ 2013 Satellite Safari app offering a brand-new, augmented-and-virtual-reality satellite tracker and spaceflight simulator. Orbitrack will tell you when spacecraft pass overhead, […]
Orion Widefield Eyepieces: If you’re ready to swap out your standard Plossl eyepieces for oculars that will take your observing game to the next level, you should check out the Orion Telescopes & Binoculars EF Widefield 1.25″ Eyepieces. The “EF” stands for Extra Flat, which means that Orion’s EF Widefield […]
Orion CT80 Compact Refractor: The Achilles’ heel of rich-field achromatic refractors is chromatic aberration, but when you goal is scooping up ultra-wide, low-magnification views of the Milky Way, who cares about chroma. Witness Orion’s versatile new f/5 CT80 80-mm Compact Refractor ($109.00US) which is designed to excel at wide-field observations […]
Fifth Star Labs’ Sky Guide app enjoys a near perfect score of 4.9 from the almost 70,000 users who have taken the time to rate it … which is, well, astonishing. There is ample reason for its popularity, though, given the WOW! factor of its thousands of breathtaking celestial images, […]