
First Look: Meade's MySky, 20-inch RCX
At the Northeast Astronomy Forum, Meade unveiled a working prototype of their portable planetarium, mySKY. Read our first look now.

First Look: Handcrafted Wooden Dobs
A prize-winning amateur telescope maker goes professional.

First Look: Tele Vue Ethos and New Astro-Physics Refractors
During the next week, we'll be highlighting some interesting telescopes, gadgets, and useful accessories that caught our eye at the Northeast Astronomy Forum & Telescope Show. Check back often for more updates.

Autoguiding Interface
Keeping pace with modern technology, Shoestring Astronomy now produces a series of adapters to connect your computer to your telescope mount.

Observing POD
Get the wind protection of a dome without the need to motorize rotation with SkyShed Observatories’ new POD.
Hot New Products for 2007
One of the most popular features we publish in Sky & Telescope is our annual Hot Products roundup, in which we call special attention to noteworthy astronomy products introduced into the marketplace during the past year.
Meade's mySky
Coming soon from Meade Instruments is mySky, a personal observing assistant that identifies more than 30,000 celestial objects.
Compact Autoguider
The Trifid Nugget from Yankee Robotics is a dedicated autoguider compatible with just about any guidescope or off-axis guiding system.

Compact Cameras
New to the amateur community but a veteran in the professional arena, Quantum Scientific Imaging (QSI) now offers a series of competitively priced, thermoelectrically cooled CCD cameras.

Super Planetary Telescope
From Lazzarotti Optics comes the Gladio series: tubeless, long-focal-length reflectors designed with solar-system imagers in mind.

Bigger APOs
William Optics expands its line of premium refractors upward with the announcement of the new FLT-132 f/7 triplet apochromatic refractor.
Remote Control With Your Cell
Control your roll-off roof observatory from anywhere with m1 OASYS.

Lightweight Observatory
Smart Astronomy has introduced the Clear-View Portable Observatory Tent, a lightweight and effective means for you to observe in comfort, free from wind and annoying stray light.

Clear-Sky Gadget
If you live in North America and have a PC running Windows Vista, you can have Attilla Danko's Clear Sky Clock (CSC) on your desktop 24 hours a day.

Apo Bargain
Another good deal from Orion Telescopes & Binoculars comes in the form of its new Orion Premium 102mm F/7 ED Refractor.

Extra Narrowband Hydrogen-Alpha Imaging Filter
Orion Telescopes & Binoculars' new Extra Narrowband Hydrogen-Alpha Imaging Filter lets you shoot high-contrast views of emission nebulae even from light-polluted locations.
Affordable Active Optics
Santa Barbara Instrument Group, pioneer of the first commercially available active-optics for amateur telescopes, has developed the AO-8 for their popular ST series of self-guiding USB cameras.

Economical "Go To"
With the overwhelming popularity of Go To telescopes, it's surprising that a product like the Cube from iOptron hasn't come along before now.

Multipurpose Spectograph
You can view the solar spectrum or split spectroscopic binary stars with Shelyak Instruments Lhires III Spectrograph.
Cloud Control
Diffraction Limited's new Boltwood Portable Cloud Sensor enables you to sleep when conditions are astronomically poor, and then alerts you with an alarm when the skies clear.