On April 3rd, 4th and 5th Woodland Hills Camera and Telescopes will offer a free online lecture series featuring Tim Russ, Christopher Go, Adam Block and Richard Wright. The event will be live on the Woodland Hills’ YouTube channel starting at 12:30pm on Friday, April 3. This is your chance to […]
The newest camera line in the Atik portfolio is the Atik 7.1 Advanced CMOS Astro Imaging Camera which follows on the success of ATIK’s CMOS Horizon cameras. The first camera offered in the ACIS CMOS line is Atik 7.1 Advanced CMOS Astro Imaging Camera which is Atik’s fastest camera ever […]
In December 2019, Atik Camera’s announced the introduction of the Atik Horizon II, which is the follow up to the company’s first ever CMOS Camera. The company has announced the camera is now available to purchase in mono and color models. With extensive experience in both hardware and software design, […]
While Astro-Physics is well known for its incredibly built mounts and telescopes, the company also offers a number of accessories built with the same dedication to quality. This includes SLR Camera Adapters. Astro-Physics now offers several different camera adapters for use with a number of camera manufacturers in combination with […]
SkyTools 4 is now two products, SkyTools Imaging, which comes in a single edition, and the newly introduced SkyTools Visual, which is a comprehensive software platform dedicated to every aspect of visual observing including planning, finder charts, controlling a telescope and logging observations. SkyTools Visual comes in three editions: Standard, […]
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 […]
Pegasus Astro has introduced a new USB Control Hub for the astrophotography market. One of the unique features of the hub is that it is certified to work from −40°C to +85°C and offers electronics has been selected to support Industrial grade temperature ranges. The hub also has the ability […]
The ‘swiss army knife’ of star diagonals, the Baader FlipMirror II Star Diagonal (BFM II) offers 3 adjustable configurable output ports and a high-quality flip mirror. Its multitude of adaptations give the imager and visual astronomer practically limitless ways to couple and operate multiple instruments, cameras, guiders, off axis guider, […]
Astro Imaging History has evolved so much in the last few years. We recently received our latest newsletter from the team at iOptron and it included a nice overview on the history of astro imaging. We enjoyed the article and thought you would as well. Early in astro imaging histroy, […]
APM Jena is a telescope manufacturer located in Jena, Germany. Its owner and founder, Norbert Stroemich, is a mechanical engineer and former employee of over 14 years at Carl Zeiss Jena. The APM Jena initial offering is a Fluorite Quadruplet Polychromat 150/1200, offering a premium refractor for both visual and […]
StarTools has announced that the astrophotography processing software application can now create plausible depth information from 2D images, for use by various 3D media and Virtual Reality. New as of StarTools 1.6 beta, the Stereo 3D module can be used to synthesize depth information based on an astronomical image feature […]
Starizona Night Owl offers a 0.4x SCT Reducer/Corrector with a 4-element reducer design to provide a wide field of view and fast focal ratio for deep-sky imaging, especially for real-time imaging, “electronically-assisted astronomy” or EAA. The Starizona Night Owl works with standard Schmidt-Cassegrain telescopes (not EdgeHD or ACF models). The […]