Baader Planetarium’s new MaxBright II Binoviewer incorporates Baader’s vast experience acquired during thirty years of building astronomical binoviewers. The company builds its binoviewers to be utilized with a compliment of accessories to offer complete system solutions. The new MaxBright II was conceived as a more compact and lighter option to Baader’s flagship […]
The Orion Linear BinoViewer ($499.99US) is so named because it employs a sliding linear housing for adjusting the interpupillary distance (IPD) instead of the traditional folding body. That matters, because the folding types are more prone to collimation problems, whereby the two barrels of the binoviewer become misaligned, causing double […]
Astronomic’s Astro-Tech 152EDT f/8 triplet apo refractor ($3999US) features a massive 3-inch rack-and-pinion focuser with a built-in camera-angle adjuster. The triplet objective includes a low-dispersion FK-61 ED element, as well as a Lanthanum element. The Astro-Tech 152EDT OTA (with rings and both dovetails) weighs 29 pounds (13.1 kilograms). The focus […]
Baader Planetarium’s famed Hyperion 8-24 mm Zoom eyepiece, now in its fourth generation as the Hyperion Zoom Mark IV Eyepiece, continues the line’s High Quality Phantom Coating Group Multicoatings, for revealing faintest objects at maximum contrast with total freedom from reflections. The Hyperion Zoom Mark IV Eyepiece click-stop action – […]