The Buckeyestargazer Shop is now offering a number of new products including a new Raspberry Pi 4b Case and HighPi case bracket. Joel Short, an astroimaging enthusiast located in Northern Indiana and owner of the Buckeyestargazer Shop says, “I have custom designed a case for the Pi 4 that accepts […]
A new Scopetech Mount Zero GoTo Kit is now available for the Scopetech Mount Zero, an ultra-portable, single arm fork mount. With a 7kg payload it is a deceptively simple alt-azimuth mount that features a ball bearing plus worm gear and wheel on each axis rather than a basic clutch […]
The IDAS NBX Nebula Filter is a dual band filter that excels with nebula photography using fast optics, like the Celestron RASA. The NBX is a dual filter which specifically focuses on OIII and H-alpha lines and, like the existing IDAS (Astro Hutech) nebula filters, the new NBX is of […]
The StarAid Revolution Autoguider is a stand-alone autoguider with camera shutter control, dithering, automatic polar alignment and built-in plate solving. There are a multitude of cameras available for autoguiding, however they can require a laptop or PC and suitable software. Now, standalone solutions are coming out which do not require […]
The Omegon Pro Apochromats lineup has been supplemented and enhanced new generation of equally stylish and powerful apochromats that offer extremely high performance. Omegon’s new apochromats were developed for ambitious astrophotographers who want to take brilliantly-sharp photographs of the universe. These Omegon Pro Apochromats deliver superb image sharpness and wonderful […]
The MaxFR Astronomik Filters photographic narrowband-emission line filters were designed for ultra-fast telescope optical systems as there is an ever growing demand for filters suitable for extremely fast optical systems like Celestron´s RASA and the Epsilon Astrographs made by Takahashi. The MaxFR Astronomik Filters emission line filters are suitable up […]
The new Omegon Pro Astrographs are telescopes specifically designed for full-frame cameras, and offer high light-gathering capabilities. With the ultra-fast aperture ratio from f/2.8 to f/3.2, you can take astronomy photos with extremely short exposure times. These compact and portable Newtonian astrographs has been developed for the dedicated astrophotographer who […]
May Skies for astronomy will be the subject this week on the SkyWatcher USA What’s Up? Webcast. In this episode the SkyWatcher Team checks out the night skies of May from the full moon, comets, meteor showers to a selection of deep sky targets to image and observe. The Sky-Watcher […]
Taurus Dobsonian telescopes are offered from Taurus Telescopes, a Polish telescope manufacturer of ultralight, compact Dobsonian telescopes from 14” – 24”. Taurus is now offering digital setting circles (DSCs) for their line of Dobsonian telescopes. This accessory provides the telescope with constant information about the position of its axes. Simply […]
The Oberwerk BT-127XL-SD Binocular Telescope is the company’s newest and largest XL Series Binocular Telescope. It features 5″ apochromatic (FCD100 / FK-61 triplet) objectives, with a relatively-short 650mm focal length. As the Oberwerk team notes, “The BT-127XL-SD was designed to be the highest-performing production binocular on the market, without regard […]
Orion Telescopes and Binocular has released the Orion 0.8x Reducer-Flattener for the Orion EON 115mm and EON 130mm ED Triplet Refractors which can help ensure sharp photographs edge to edge when used with Orion’s premium EON Apos. All refractors produce some amount of field curvature, which results in elongation of […]
Last year the amateur astronomy community got a new resource for “simple and practical” items. Joel Short, an astroimaging enthusiast located in Northern Indiana, opened the Buckeyestargazer Shop to make available items he has developed to offer affordable and uncomplicated accessories. As Short comments, “These are simple and practical items […]