Its not long now – under a month – before we attend the next exhibition in our astronomy event calendar. This time it is the Practical Astronomy Show (PAS) that is held at the Kettering Conference Centre near (by the name you will have guessed already)….Kettering! The event takes place on Saturday 21st March, but…
The Baader Sky Surfer V is a very well designed and built zero power red dot finder which was originally for military use, but it is a very popular accessory upgrade for astronomy. It features fully multi-coated lenses which provides increased light transmission for a brighter image, a bright and highly visible illuminated red dot…
Question: Do you have difficulty getting your telescope finely balanced in Alt (for Alt-Az scopes) or Dec (for German EQ scopes)? Answer: Baader Planetarium’s Levelling Counterweight and Clamp can help! Easy to use – simply screw the counterweight to the dovetail clamp. Then slide the dovetail clamp, with counterweight attached, onto your telescope’s dovetail bar.…
We’re now back from last weekend’s AstroFest 2020 event which was a great event. There was lot of interest and good discussions about all the telescopes, mounts and accessories we had brought to exhibit on our booth. You can read a report on our time at AstroFest and what we brought to display, along with…