The Frosty Drew Observatory Astronomy Team replaced the Observatory’s aging Meade LX200 16” Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope with a new PlaneWave CDK600 Corrected Dall-Kirkham telescope. Shown is the timelapse of the entire replacement project. Enjoy!
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PlaneWave Instruments CDK600
A PlaneWave Instruments CDK600 was installed for Brigham Young University. The company has shared a video instillation where they install a PlaneWave Instruments CDK600 observatory telescope package on an equatorial wedge. The CDK600 package from PlaneWave includes a CDK24 telescope and L-600 direct drive mount. This system is great for […]
Solar Imaging By NASA Results in Amazing Video
Solar imaging by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SD0) of the Sun has been going non-stop for over a full decade. From its orbit in space around Earth, SDO has gathered 425 million high-resolution images of the Sun, amassing 20 million gigabytes of data over the past 10 years. This information […]
New Our Galaxy App Released to Help Telescope and Non Telescope Users to Uniquely Visualize Deep Sky Objects
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 […]
StarNet++ Software Program Provides the Ability for Any Astrophotographer to Remove Stars from Astro Images
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 […]
Sneak Peek of Attachment for TeleVue 55mm Plössl Telescope Eyepieces
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 […]
SkyTools 4 Visual Sneak Preview
In its release last year of SkyTools 4 Imaging, Skyhound introduced a major update to it’s a platform offering a powerful tool for astro imagers. Now Skyhound is putting the finishing touches on its SkyTools 4 Visual, which distills the most sophisticated astronomical calculations into a remarkably simple interface that […]
Huge 50″ Newtonian Telescope Installed in New Jersey
Normand Fullum of Canadian based Optiques Fullum traveled to New Jersey to install and deliver an insanely large modified Fullum-Folded Newtonian Telescope with a 50” primary mirror, a focal ratio of 3.5 and a fully motorized guiding system. They video’d the one day instillation. Its truly amazing to watch, check […]
US Naval Observatory Receives PlaneWave Instruments CDK1000 Telescope
The US Naval Observatory has had PlaneWave Instruments install a PlaneWave 1-Meter telescope (CDK1000) high atop the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. The high elevation and stable atmospheric conditions make Chile the perfect location for large aperture research telescopes. The US Naval Observatory funded install took 10 hours from […]
Hubble Optics UL16 Dobsonian Telescope Review
The Hubble Optics UL16 Dobsonian telescope features a premium, light, compact and portable design offering about half the weight of traditional Dobsonian telescopes. The Hubble Optics UL16 and each of the line of UL Series telescopes offers Hubble’s custom lightweight sandwich mirrors with an optimized thermal design that cools up […]
Check Out This Video on How Explore Scientific Makes Its Telescope Optics
Have you ever wondered how the telescope optics are made in amateur telescopes? Even is the answer is no, you might want reconsider that answer and take a peek at this video where Explore Scientific’s Scott Roberts provides an inside look at the telescope optic’s manufacturing process. It’s a short […]
John Dobson Dobsonian Telescope
It’s hard to deny the impact that John Dobson had on the amateur astronomy hobby. His introduction of the Dobsonian telescope to the world in the late 60’s in combination with his grassroot outreach efforts through the creation of the Sidewalk Astronomers forever changed the landscape of our hobby. Below […]