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Sky-Watcher USA EQM-35 Mount
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Sky-Watcher USA EQM-35 Mount

The Sky-Watcher USA EQM-35 go-to mount provides a convenient, stable go-to platform for refractors up to 100 mm or up to 127-mm Maksutovs. Designed as an imaging system, it also works well for visual use. This mount is perfect for the beginner as well as the more advanced astronomer. The […]

IP4AP Announces Three-Day Workshop for PixInsight Image Processing Software for Astrophotography
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IP4AP Announces Three-Day Workshop for PixInsight Image Processing Software for Astrophotography

Warren Keller and Ron Brecher with IP4AP are teaming up again to present a three-day PixInsight workshop in Mesa, Arizona, September 21-23, 2018 and in Lake Forest, California September 28-30, 2018. If you’re new to image processing, PixInsight is a very powerful and much less expensive alternative to Photoshop. It is […]

iOptron Tri-Pier 360
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iOptron Tri-Pier 360

Recognizing that many observers and imagers alike are choosing to take larger and more capable instruments to “darker skies,” iOptron designers created the iOptron Tri-Pier 360 to serve as a portable support for their equipment. A rugged, dependable, portable pier, the Tri-Pier 360, so named because it is engineered to […]

Explore Scientific Wins Arkansas BBB’s Torch Award for Ethics
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Explore Scientific Wins Arkansas BBB’s Torch Award for Ethics

Explore Scientific, an international concern based in Springdale, Arkansas, has received the Better Business Bureau of Arkansas’ 2018 Torch Award for Ethics. The national award-winning “educate and recognize” Torch Award program is the premier public recognition of organizations that intentionally pursue the Six Principles of TRUST, upon which the BBB […]

Image 2: A new 10-inch Dovetail Saddle for both D-Style and V-Style Plates.
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Astro-Physics Dovetail Plate

Astro-Physics Dovetail Plate includes the 15-inch Vixen-style Dovetail Plate The V-style Dovetail has taken a major step forward: Astro-Physics is now offering a 15-inch Vixen-style Dovetail Plate (SBV15 – $58US). This is no run-of-the-mill V-style plate; this Astro-Physics Dovetail Plate is a robust, wide plate that allows attaching our scope […]

Astronomik CLS XT Clip Filter for EOS.
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Astronomik XT Clip Filters for DSLR Cameras

The Astronomik XT Clip Filters are specifically designed to deliver widefield images with crisp and sharp stars right to the edge of the field. Astronomik’s popular original Clip Filters are well known tools among astrophotographers worldwide, but unfortunately, their effectiveness does not fully extend to the very short focal lengths […]

Volume 12 Issue 2
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Volume 12 Issue 2

In this issue Editor Gary Parkerson talks about the new focus of the magazine as well as his experience creating an ultra-portable astro-travel kit; Dr. James R. Dire test drives the William Optics 20th Anniversary Flourorstar 123-mm Refractor; Mark Zaslove shows how the Unified Software Theory Prism v10 is a […]

Polar Aligning a Mount
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Polar Aligning a Mount

Polar Aligning a Mount: This Astro Tip was snagged as one of the many great ideas shared by Astronomy Technology Today reader Paul Chasse. It focuses on helping to make polar alignment a smooth process. Pay attention, because this may save you some time and frustration down the road. When […]

PrimaLuceLab SPIDER230c Radio Telescope
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PrimaLuceLab SPIDER230c Radio Telescope

PrimaLuceLab offers a unique opportunity to enjoy the cosmos and beyond with the SPIDER230c radio telescope that combines radio technologies with that of amateur astronomy, packaged in a powerful, modular and easy-to-use system. The SPIDER230c radio telescope uses a WEB230-5 antenna – a mesh 2.3-meter diameter parabolic antenna designed to […]