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Choosing a Beginner Telescope
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Choosing a Beginner Telescope

“I tell people that when choosing a beginner telescope, with a small investment in a simple first telescope, they can test drive the hobby without breaking the bank, and upgrade later when they have more experience and knowledge about the hobby!” Having been an astronomy professor for several decades, an […]

Dobsonian Bearing Upgrade Kit
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Dobsonian Bearing Upgrade Kit

AstroGoods is now offering a Dobsonian Bearing Upgrade Kit for Dobsonian telescope owners who have small 5″ or 5.5″ factory installed altitude bearings and want larger ones without the need for making new cutouts in the side boards of their mount. These new replacement 12-inch bearings offer a virtually drop […]

Figure 6. The straw that broke the camel’s back. This is a two-frame mosaic of the Veil nebula in Cygnus including narrowband H-alpha and OIII data. This image required over 30-hours of total imaging time.
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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 […]

Astrozap Telescope Dust Covers
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Astrozap Telescope Dust Covers

Astrozap Telescope Dust Covers: Astronomers can get pretty finicky about cleanliness, especially when it comes to their telescope optics. The reality is that dust is everywhere and it is next to impossible to keep it entirely off a telescope’s optics. However, you don’t have to allow dust to settle on […]

Sky-Watcher Stargate Dobsonian
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Sky-Watcher Stargate Dobsonian

Sky-Watcher Stargate Dobsonian is a truss-tube Dobsonian telescope that offer serious aperture for those looking to sail farther into the depths of the cosmos in big – and even bigger – deep-sky-gobbling apertures of 18 and 20 inches. For those stepping up from the 12-inch instruments, the 18-inch Sky-Watcher Stargate […]

Sky-Watcher Stargate Dobsonian
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Sky-Watcher Stargate Dobsonian

The Sky-Watcher Stargate Dobsonian telescopes offer serious aperture for those looking to sail farther into the depths of the cosmos in big deep-sky-gobbling apertures of 18 and 20 inches. For those stepping up from the 12-inch instruments, the 18-inch Stargate captures more than twice the light, and for those graduating […]