Equipment: Guides & Recommendations
Expanded Camera Control
Users of Lumenera cameras will appreciate the effort Heiko Wilkens put into developing Lucam Recorder.
Equipment: Guides & Recommendations
S&T Test Report: Two New Apos from the Same Tree
S&T: Dennis di Cicco Rapidly earning a reputation for quality optics at reasonable prices, William Optics adds two new scopes to its refractor lineup. Inside the May issue of Sky & Telescope. On newsstands April 3rd!
Lightbridge Knobs
The Astronomy-Shoppe now offers the Meade Rescue Kit — a hardware upgrade for the collimation adjustments on Meade's LightBridge Dobsonian telescopes.
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.
Multipurpose Spectograph
You can view the solar spectrum or split spectroscopic binary stars with Shelyak Instruments Lhires III Spectrograph.
Portable Tracking
Orion Telescopes & Binoculars now offers the TeleTrack, an ultra-portable mount built for small telescopes and cameras with telephoto lenses.
Canon DSLR Filters
If you own a Canon digital SLRcamera, you’ll soon be able to protect its sensor from dust during long exposures with Astronomik’s new EOS Filter Clip System.
Shooting Stars
Shooting Stars — and anything else that requires long exposures — is within your reach with Orion Telescope & Binoculars new StarShoot Deep Space Color Imager II.
Affordable Narrowband
Baader Planetarium, long a source of premium astronomy accessories, now expands its line of imaging filters to include a set of four narrowband filters.
Smart Eyepieces
Smart Astronomy has introduced an affordable line of high-power eyepieces.
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.
Equipment: Guides & Recommendations
Stellar Apo
Stellarvue adds a new affordable 4-inch apochromat to its line of premium-quality refractors.
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.
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.
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.
Apo Bargain
Another good deal from Orion Telescopes & Binoculars comes in the form of its new Orion Premium 102mm F/7 ED Refractor.
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.
Omega Optical Launches Astrofilters Website
Filter manufacturer Omega Optical, a supplier of filters to NASA, has entered the consumer market. They are now offering filters to the amateur astronomy community.
SkyScout is Hot Stuff!
It comes as little surprise that Celestron's SkyScout, the unique hand-held device that identifies any naked-eye celestial object centered in its sighting tube, is flying off the shelves this holiday season.
Equipment: Guides & Recommendations
Hot New Products for 2007
What's the coolest new stuff entering the astronomical market? That's the question that Sky & Telescope editors wrestle with as they make their annual selection of Hot New Products.
