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…