SVBONY is having a special live-streaming event, today, July 11th. During the live stream, SVBONY will be offering their best discounts...

This SvBony SV225 mount is an easy to use telescope mount for small and medium size telescopes that won’t break the bank. This a great budget option for visual use when you don’t want a computerized mount and can even work with some planetary or solar photography. Obviously this mount won’t be an option if you want to do deep sky astrophotography since it lacks motorized tracking. SvBony 225 Mount (US link): https://amzn.to/3CqJB48 SvBony 225 Mount (UK link): https://www.amaz

If you want to get just a little bit more performance out of your SeeStar telescope when imaging the sun, try upgrading the included solar filter with Baader solar filter film. It is a fairly inexpensive upgrade and will give you a natural white sun and slightly more detail in the images. If you convert the orange colored solar image when using the stock SeeStar solar filter to black and white and adust the exposure to roughly match that when using the Baader filter film, the

If you want wide field views of the night sky and you like to build things, the Magic binocular telescope from Analog Sky might be a...

Beryl took advantage of unusually warm ocean water and low wind shear to become the earliest Category 5 hurricane on record. The video...

The video at the bottom of the post looks at historical cloud cover trends for April 8th and some sources for cloud forecast data. LINKS:...

I was able to finally get out and capture some imagery of Jupiter around 3:00 UTC on the 6th of November, 2023. Seeing was above average...

I was lucky enough to find one of these great sun tracking mounts recently on Amazon (https://amzn.to/45LZomL) but at the time of this writing, most stores, including Amazon, are sold out of this SkyWatcher mount. They should be back in stock soon, and if you are looking for an incredibly easy to use mount for solar observing, this can be a great option. Since the mount has a built-in camera to track the sun, along with GPS so the telescope knows both where it is and where th

In the video below, I take a look at the APEXEL 12X50 Monocular. If you are in the market for a moderately priced monocular, this is one...

In the video below I take a look at the Celestron Motorized Focuser. This focuser makes it much easier to focus my Celestron 8" SCT on a Celestron Evolution mount. While that mount is a great mount for visual use because it is so easy to carry around and transport, it isn't as stable during high-magnification planetary imaging. So, the image can really bounce around when trying to focus manually. The motorized focuser causes no shaking or vibration on the mount when focusing,

I put together a video on how you can correct field rotation in planetary animations to get a perfectly smooth final result like the one...

So far in 2022, all my planetary imaging has once again been with my Celestron 8" EdgeHD SCT on a Celestron Evolution mount. I've mostly...