When thinking about the GSO Eight Cassegrain telescope, its worthwhile to look back to Laurent Cassegrain who was a 17th century French Roman Catholic priest and is given credit for inventing the telescope design that carries his name. Cassegrain telescopes use a parabolic primary mirror with a hyperbolic secondary mirror. […]
I have been involved with astronomy for a number of years and building my own artificial star came naturally. As in so many hobbies, there are countless gadgets and doodads that can make your astronomy setup, alignment, and viewing much more enjoyable. Unfortunately for most of us, without the benefit […]
SBS SM-2 Seeing Monitor : Santa Barbara Scientific, a company formed by one of the original founders of SBIG (now part of Diffraction Limited), offers a unique product that allows amateur astronomers to measure the true seeing conditions in the areas they practice astronomical viewing and imaging. The SBS SM-2 […]