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Unistellar Evoscope eQuinox – the new SMART telescope.

April 3rd, 2024 – 10:22 am
Exploring the night sky has never been easier with the birth of the Unistellar Evscope eQuinox telescope (Unistellar), the worlds newest and most powerful, portable, digital smart telescope. You can enjoy the beauty of deep space, protect the planet against near earth asteroids, conduct hands on science and so much more.… Read more »
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The new SMART telescope from ZWO. The Seestar s50

April 2nd, 2024 – 5:59 pm
ZWO have been at the forefront of planetary and deep sky astrophotography cameras for many years. Their new contribution to the SMART telescope range offers an excellent all in one value for money (retailing at £539 at 365 Astronomy), light weight design (weighing 2.5g), extremely transportable and versatile deep sky imaging set up.… Read more »
By Andrew Spencer | Also posted in Astro Photography | Comments (0)

A Comparative Review of TeleVue Nagler, Delite and Delos short Focal-Length Eyepieces

February 2nd, 2019 – 9:16 pm
Review by Steve Miles, in association with ‘365Astronomy’ 18/01/2019 Preamble Having owned and used most of the popular amateur telescope types, in varying f-ratios and apertures, I have ended up following a now well-trodden path back to using refractors (though not to the exclusion of the others, all of which of course have their uses).… Read more »
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How to choose a telescope

April 3rd, 2015 – 8:56 pm
How to choose a telescope We hear this question frequently from our customers: “This will be my first telescope, but there are so many to choose from, so I would need some advise about how to choose a telescope…” Then I would ask couple of questions to make sure we go into the correct direction… The question, “what sort of budget you have” or “how much were you planning to spend” might be not that easy to answer, once you know that some telescopes might not serve you as well as others for a certain purpose…, never-the-less it’ll give me an idea about what types of telescopes to discuss with you… Another important question is whether you want to do any astro photography or not.… Read more »
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How to put together a medium value telescope package for a beginner amateur astronomer

January 23rd, 2014 – 12:22 am
How to put together a medium value telescope package for a beginner amateur astronomer This article came together when I helped one of our customers to answer the question of how to put together a medium value telescope package for him who was a beginner amateur astronomer.… Read more »
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