Reviews
The Orion StarBlast: Silly Little Telescopes Need Love Too
<i>How did this Silly Little Scope perform under the summer Milky Way? What’s the verdict, cutting-to-the-chase-wise?</i>
Orion’s LaserMate™ Deluxe Laser Collimator
Collimating your Newtonian lickety-split!
Celestron Power Tank
A hot shot for a low price...
Lunar and Other Adventures With An Orion ST80
The little guy sometimes just doesn't get enough credit for being a viable precence on the "real" telescope scene. Well I set out to try and see if all those nasty things I had heard about that cute short little scope were true with a vigorus work out that had us both......
Review of the Orion by Vixen 102 Telescope OTA
Why are 4" achromatic refractors such wonderful telescopes, and what can you expect from an excellent one.
The Riddle of the Sphinx
You’ve seen the ads in the magazines or on the Web for Vixen’s latest mount, the Sphinx. It’s a Go-to mount with a hand controller that doubles as a computerized star chart. Is it a step forward or a gimmick? Does it work, and if so, how well? Click the link and see…
Wild Card 003.1 About the System(?) Strehl Ratio
Telescope designer Rick Shaffer sharpens up his pencil and points out how you can use the Strehl Ratio as a way of analyzing the perfomance of an entire optical system.
AstroPro JMI Wheely Bar Stability Modification Project
If You Use Wheely Bars...You'll Love This Simple Modification!
From a newbie to a newbie
Before you buy
LX90 will stay aligned for two weeks
Why don't they tell us this stuff!
Regreasing the Giro mount
Your Giro becomes less smooth than before? Read on to see how to fix it.
Matching a CCD Camera to a Telescope
This article is the first installation in a series of articles about CCD imaging and setting up a CCD imaging system. During the course of the year I travel and speak on CCD imaging and people frequently ask about how to get started and how to choose the components of an imaging system. In this series of articles I will address the most common questions. This first article talks about pixel size.
Celestron Accessory Kit! Best accessory purchase ever!
Out of the blue my eleven-pound counterweight was heading right for my Celestron accessory kit. The case hardly even felt the impact, and its contents were never in danger. Now I have a small dent in the case, but I know that the incredible bunch of accessories inside is in good hands.
Performance of the Pentax XW 10mm eyepiece
Can this new Pentax eyepiece compare with the best TeleVue has to offer ?
What Do You See When You See Seeing?
What is atmospheric seeing, and how does it limit your telescope? Learn about the mythical seeing cell, and explore the legend of the small telescope that trumps its larger neighbors when the seeing is poor. In this article we look at how the atmosphere distorts starlight and how simple models can help us understand what we see in different telescopes.
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