Volume 8, Issue 4

In this issue editor Gary Parkerson discusses :Labors of Love: Astronomy Star Products:; Dr. James Dire shows how William Optics has done it again with the William Optics Star 71 Refractor; Sean Melehan demonstrates how the Gondwana Telescopes Marana is a big-aperture cure for fat lips and slip discs; Larry Alvarez shows how to deliver unmatched solar views and images with the Lunt 230 H-alpha Solar Telescope; Greg Marshall examines the question “Can AO be useful to the amateur astro-photographer?”; Robert E. Majewski provides the know-how to improving imagery of low-lying planets by building an easy to use atmospheric dispersion corrector; Austin Grants tip on smoothing azimuth, industry news, new products and more!