Note: For definitions of basic eyepiece characteristics mentioned below, see Ed Ting’s A Beginner’s Guide to Telescope Eyepieces. Once you look through eyepieces with...
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Note: For definitions of basic eyepiece characteristics mentioned below, see Ed Ting’s A Beginner’s Guide to Telescope Eyepieces. Eyepieces with 100° apparent fields of...
Red light is one of the most essential astronomy tools in the field, along with a telescope, star maps and perhaps bug spray. A...
The good: Versatile, light, fine optics The bad: Needs cool-down time and near-perfect collimation Over the past five decades, the Celestron C8 has established...
The telescope bargains just keep on coming. Take, for example, the Orion Short Tube 120, a 120 mm f/5 achromatic refractor. Due to their...
Sized between the popular 4-inch and less common 5-inch refractors, the Vixen Optics ED115S ED doublet refractor is an f/7.7 instrument that uses FPL-53...
Several telescopes have been around long enough to reach iconic status – Celestron’s C8 Schmidt-Cassegrain, Questar Corp.’s 3.5″ and perhaps a few of the...
As an f/15 Maksutov-Cassegrain telescope (MCT), the Meade LX65 optical tube assembly is a viable alternative to to both the Celestron 5-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain and...
Plus: Very good main optics; the smartphone-aided pointing works! Minus: Poor Amici prism diagonal and eyepieces; somewhat shaky mount Summary: The StarSense technology provides...
Orion has introduced a new entry in the apochromat field with its EON 130mm f/7.0 ED Triplet refractor (MSRP: 2499.99). Included are a 2.5-inch...