TVO Staff – Tele Vue Optics, Inc. Blog

Watch Your Back Focus!

Optical Accessories for ImagingMost telescopes produce curved image surfaces, meaning that the focus at the center of the field is

Thou silver deity of secret night,Direct my footsteps through the woodland shade;Thou conscious witness of unknown delight,The Lover’s guardian, and

The catalyst for this blog was a forum query about purchasing a super-telephoto lens versus a telescope for deep-sky astrophotography

Marc Fitkin’s Instagram wall caught our attention, with its many birding images made with the Tele Vue-76 APO refractor. We

You’ve heard of the four seasons of the year but, did you know about Galaxy Season? From early March to

Messier Marathon Second WindowThe Moon is new on March 31st and that opens a rare second observing window for the

Current solar activity has imagers busy posting their prized Hydrogen-α images to social media. Naturally, there’s a lot of Tele

By the 1970’s amateur astronomers had noticed that all 110 Messier objects (a list of notable objects in the northern

We’ve put a playlist together on YouTube called Night Vision Component Attachment that demonstrates many common setups for astronomical observation