The Baader Steeldrive II Motor Focuser with Controller was released earlier this year and is proving very popular. Baader Planetarium have already provided the necessary data to software developers so they can write plugin applications for their own programs. Baader are pleased to announce that two plugins are now available: TheSkyX A plugin for the…
Lunar observing is very popular amongst a large number of amateur astronomers. For some, it has been the Moon that has been the first celestial target that they have pointed their telescope towards, and/or the original source of their astronomical curiosity and fascination that has led them to further develop their interest of “more things…
It has been a long time coming, but the Steeldrive II motor focuser units are now available from your astronomy dealer (see here). The final prototype was shown in Germany in September 2018 and we were very happy and privileged to be able to show it at the European AstroFest and Practical Astronomy Show events…
Last week I was out with the Celestron RASA 8″ (under very poor skies unfortunately) and whilst setting up the whole telescope and camera system, I misplaced the camera nosepiece and its dust cap. At the time, to stop dust getting onto the sensor optical window (causing nasty black spots or dust doughnuts) I simply…
We thought we would just tell you about an exciting new product coming from Baader Planetarium this Summer – their Flip Mirror II (BFM II) as a little more about it, and some new product photos, have been released. We will look at this unit in more detail in another future blog, but for the moment…
Its not long now before its the Summer Solstice (Fri 21st June), and not long after that there is a total Solar eclipse visible over the South Pacific ocean and over Chile. For those travelling to see this eclipse we wish you clear skies! Hopefully we will get a summer here in the UK so we…