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
Read moreThis week we feature the stories of two amateur astronomers delving into night vision astronomy: one from a built-up urban
Read moreOptical Accessories for ImagingMost telescopes produce curved image surfaces, meaning that the focus at the center of the field is
Read moreSolar activity continues to increase ahead of the prediction curve and solar imagers are loving it! In this gallery blog,
Read moreCurrent solar activity has imagers busy posting their prized Hydrogen-α images to social media. Naturally, there’s a lot of Tele
Read moreWe’ve put a playlist together on YouTube called Night Vision Component Attachment that demonstrates many common setups for astronomical observation
Read moreIt’s time to revisit the Sun! This nearby yellow-dwarf star is entering middle-age and is showing some spots! Here we
Read moreIn this installment, we travel to Kitt Peak in the Arizona-Sonoran Desert to “speckle” binary stars and finally learn what
Read moreIn the last blog, we covered the history of the Newtonian reflector, its inherent aberrations, and how Tele Vue’s
Read moreInvented from lenses used to make eyeglasses, refractors were the first telescopes when introduced in the 1600s. However, the early
Read moreIn the last installment, our scientific path went from “polar to solar.” (If you missed it, please go back and
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