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Night Vision Astronomy from Bortle 9 & 4 Skies!

This week we feature the stories of two amateur astronomers delving into night vision astronomy: one from a built-up urban

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

Solar activity continues to increase ahead of the prediction curve and solar imagers are loving it! In this gallery blog,

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

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

It’s time to revisit the Sun! This nearby yellow-dwarf star is entering middle-age and is showing some spots! Here we

In this installment, we travel to Kitt Peak in the Arizona-Sonoran Desert to “speckle” binary stars and finally learn what

In the last blog, we covered the history of the Newtonian reflector, its inherent aberrations, and how Tele Vue’s

Invented from lenses used to make eyeglasses, refractors were the first telescopes when introduced in the 1600s. However, the early

In the last installment, our scientific path went from “polar to solar.” (If you missed it, please go back and