Equipment: Guides & Recommendations
SBIG for Macs
Now Macintosh users can fully utilize CCD cameras from Santa Barbara Instrument Group.
Equipment: Guides & Recommendations
Portable Pier Lift
Pier-Tech now produces a heavy-duty portable telescope pier that’s perfect for star parties and observatories alike.
Observing POD
Get the wind protection of a dome without the need to motorize rotation with SkyShed Observatories’ new POD.
Meade's mySky
Coming soon from Meade Instruments is mySky, a personal observing assistant that identifies more than 30,000 celestial objects.
Equipment: Guides & Recommendations
Solar Filters
My Solar-Spotters are white-light solar filters contained in foam-lined boxes that serve as both storage cases and integral components of the safety mechanism.
Equipment: Guides & Recommendations
3-D Galactic Road Map
Ever wonder where the globular star cluster M13 is in relation to our Sun within the Milky Way? Think Astronomy will help you put it and many other objects in perspective with its new program.
Equipment: Guides & Recommendations
Expanded Camera Control
Users of Lumenera cameras will appreciate the effort Heiko Wilkens put into developing Lucam Recorder.
Super Planetary Telescope
From Lazzarotti Optics comes the Gladio series: tubeless, long-focal-length reflectors designed with solar-system imagers in mind.
Equipment: Guides & Recommendations
Observing Paragon
TMB Optical and Burgess Optical have teamed up once again and released the Paragon 40-mm, 2-inch Orthoscopic Super-Wide eyepiece.
Equipment: Guides & Recommendations
Beefy Focuser
JMI Telescopes introduces the Event Horizon series of 2-inch modular focusers for all makes and models of telescopes.
Equipment: Guides & Recommendations
Compact Autoguider
The Trifid Nugget from Yankee Robotics is a dedicated autoguider compatible with just about any guidescope or off-axis guiding system.
Equipment: Guides & Recommendations
"Go To" Retrofit
Eclipse Telescopes now offers the Gotostar retrofit kit to computerize any Eclipse Telescopes German equatorial mount.
Equipment: Guides & Recommendations
Observatories To Go
Do you want an observatory in your yard but lack the time or ability to build it? Backyard Observatories is your solution!
Bigger APOs
William Optics expands its line of premium refractors upward with the announcement of the new FLT-132 f/7 triplet apochromatic refractor.
Equipment: Guides & Recommendations
Telescope Weather Shield
Protect your fork-mounted telescope from the elements with a Scope Armor Telescope Protector.
Equipment: Guides & Recommendations
Protect Your Skyscout
Agena AstroProducts' new ScoutCase will protect your Celestron SkyScout from dirt, moisture, and accidental drops.
Remote Control With Your Cell
Control your roll-off roof observatory from anywhere with m1 OASYS.
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!
Update on March 18th's Occultation of a Star by Pluto
The countdown has begun for this important occultation of a 15th-magnitude star by Pluto, due to occur on Sunday morning, March 18, 2007.
New Reconnaissance of Mars Well Under Way
Last week planetary scientists from around the world gathered in Houston, Texas, to see the first science results from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. They weren't disappointed.
