Baader Planetarium have recently released a number of new accessories. The first are three new Tilter models to go alongside their existing UFC, M68 and FCCT tilter offerings: T-2 Tilter (left top and bottom) / M48 Tilter (middle top and bottom) / M54 Tilter (right top and bottom) The next product is a 3D printed…
Baader Planetarium recently released a number of new products to their existing catalogue. The first is a simple but effective 3D printed tool – The Baader 2″ Filter Crown Tool – to make it easier to remove and install 2″ filters in their Herschel Wedge which can be hard to reach. It can also come…
The European AstroFest returned to its usual London home last weekend, the first since 2020 which took place just before the start of the global pandemic. This two day event was held at the Kensington Conference and Events Centre on Friday 3rd and Saturday 4th February. The event featured 3 floors of exhibition space showing the latest…
Baader Planetarium will be attending the UK Astro Show / International Astronomy Show that runs on Friday 14th and Saturday 15th October. We will have a stand and will have a 10Micron GM2000 on display alongside a range of Baader accessories such as ClickLock and UFC items. We look forward to seeing you there. More…
On Saturday 19th March at 9am prompt, the doors opened at the Kettering Conference Centre to welcome a long queue of eager visitors to attend the 2022 UK Practical Astronomy Show (PAS). This was the second time that this event has been run since its first outing 2019. Originally planned to be yearly, the event…
Baader Planetarium are pleased to announce a raft of new products this February. FCCT The first is their long-awaited Filter Changer and Camera Tilter (FCCT) for use on the Celestron RASA 8″ with a range of QHY cameras. This all-in-one filter holder with camera tilt mechanism has been designed to give the largest possible usable…
The effects of image tilt can ruin a great astrophoto. Image tilt (or image plane tilt) happens when an area towards the edge of the field exhibits out-of-focus or imperfect star images and is caused by the image sensor not being pefectly perpendicular to the light path. A mis-aligned focuser tube, flattener/corrector lenses, extension adaptors,…
The Celestron RASA 8″ was designed with small CCD cameras, colour astronomical CMOS cameras, and mirrorless cameras in mind. Of course one can use Mono cameras too. If you have multiple filters and want to swap between them during an imaging run, to take LRGB or narrowband (e.g. with Baader’s F/2 filters) taking the camera…
The Baader Universal Filter Changer (UFC) has has been around for a few years now and has proved to be a very popular useful accessory for astrophotography. It allows you to easily swap filters without the need of a filterwheel. Furthermore, for imaging applications where a filterwheel cannot be used – such as with the…
It may only be an adaptor but this little piece of anodised metal will let you use a range of popular astroimaging cameras with Baader’s Universal Filter Changer (UFC) on Celestron’s RASA 8″ telescope thus allowing you to swap filters quickly and easily. Unlike…
If you have a Canon EOS DSLR camera and want to connect it to a telescope, reducer/flattener, or use a lens with a T-2 male thread, you will need an EOS T-ring. However a standard T-ring uses T-2 threads but a lot of reducers/flatteners use M48 threads. Also what do you do if you also…
Astrophotography is one of the most popular activities in astronomy. To spend hours outside in the cold taking images and then later during the day (and in the warmth) processing all of your saved images to create a final masterpiece is a very rewarding experience. Apart from imaging deep sky objects, have you ever considered…
It may appear, at first glance, that the Baader Planetarium Universal Filter Changer (UFC) is for use with larger 2″/50mm sized filters. Not so! You can use popular, and more often used smaller 1.25″, 31mm unmounted or 36mm unmounted filters too. So how can the filter slider drawer made for use with larger sized filters…
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…