Hot New Products for 2011
Our 13th annual roundup of Hot Products highlights the most intriguing new astronomy gear in the worldwide market.
Digital SCT Focuser
Add a precision focuser with digital readout to your Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope
SkyWire iPad accessory
Use your iPod or iPad as a powerful Go To computer for your telescope.
Choosing Your Astronomy Equipment
SkyScanner 100 vs. 4.5-inch StarBlast
How does the little $100 scope stack up against its venerable bigger brother?
Choosing Your Astronomy Equipment
The Joy of Small Instruments
No photograph can compare with the experience of viewing Saturn directly — something that's possible with even the smallest telescopes.
Choosing Your Astronomy Equipment
Three Great, Small Reflectors
Orion Telescopes & Binoculars's XT4.5 and StarBlast 4.5 and Edmund Scientific's Astroscan set the standard of excellence for small, inexpensive, easy-to-use telescopes.
iPhone Astronomy
Southern Stars SkySafari brings a powerful planetarium to your iPhone
Hot New Products for 2010
Our 12th annual roundup of Hot Products highlights the most intriguing new astronomy gear in the worldwide market.
Choosing Your Astronomy Equipment
Travel Scopes
It's tough to reconcile all the different constraints placed on a telescope for the airplane-traveling stargazer.
Product Videos & Demonstrations
Meade Instruments at NEAF 2010
Tony Flanders Watch S&T senior editor Dennis di Cicco and Meade Instruments's Greg Bragg discuss two revolutionary new telescopes: the fully automated LS-8 and the 20-inch Max Mount, Meade's largest. Click here to return to our Product Videos page.
Product Videos & Demonstrations
Apogee Instruments at NEAF 2010
Stephen Singer Watch S&T senior editor Dennis di Cicco discuss Apogee Instruments's latest cameras and filter wheels with Apogee's Tim Puckett. Click here to return to our Product Videos page.
An Astro-Blast at NEAF 2010
Amateurs gathered in Suffern, New York, to check out the latest gear at the 19th annual Northeast Astronomy Forum.
Astronomical Observing by Internet
Do you want the power of a serious telescope without the expense and headaches? Find out how to rent time on a remote telescope and access it over the internet.
Choosing Your Astronomy Equipment
Binocular Blogs
Binocular stargazing has a peaceful, organic quality that's hard to achieve through a telescope. Here's a list of some blogs the author has written on this subject.
Product Videos & Demonstrations
ASA Astrosysteme Austria at AIC 2009
Tony Flanders Egon Döberl discusses ASA Astrosysteme Austria's line of fast Newtonian astrographs and ultrahigh-quality mounts. Click here to see additional videos from the 2009 Advanced Imaging Conference in San Jose, California. Click here to return to our Product Videos page.
Product Videos & Demonstrations
DC3 Dreams at AIC 2009
Tony Flanders Robert Denny of DC3 Dreams has developed software that can make your remote observatory fully autonomous. It can even receive notice of new discoveries like supernovae over the internet and start follow-up observations while you're asleep or at work! Click here to see additional videos from the…
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Celestron at AIC 2009
Stephen Singer Jason Fournier discusses Celestron's new EdgeHD imaging telescopes and the CGE Pro mount. Click here to see additional videos from the 2009 Advanced Imaging Conference in San Jose, California. Click here to return to our Product Videos page.
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Astro-Physics at AIC 2009
Tony Flanders Astro-Physics' Roland Christen discusses his monumental el Capitan equatorial mount and a new 305-mm f/3.8 astrograph with a flat, 70-mm-wide imaging circle that's diffraction-limited to the edge. Click here to see additional videos from the 2009 Advanced Imaging Conference in San Jose, California. Click here…
