IAS

International Astronomy Show 2024

This weekend sees the welcome return of the UK’s International Astronomy Show (IAS). This event brings together a large selection of astronomy suppliers, vendors and enthusiasts all under one roof. We are pleased to announce that we will have a presence where a good selection of our products will be on display.  This one-day based…

New products from Baader Planetarium

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…

Practical Astronomy Show (UK) March 11th 2023

Making its comeback after another successful one-day event last year (its first run after the break due to COVID), the Practical Astronomy Show will take place on Saturday March 11th between 9am to 5pm at the Kettering Conference and Exhibition Centre near Kettering in Northamptonshire UK. The event brings together a good selection of leading…

European AstroFest 2023 in London

This year marks the first European AstroFest event since 2020. The pandemic meant that the event could not take place until now. AstroFest 2023 will take place on Friday 3rd and Saturday 4th February at the Kensington Conference and Events Centre London and will feature 16 talks from leading astronomers and scientists and 3 floors…

Baader Hyperion Offer

Until December 31st 2022 there is a special 20% off offer on the highly regarded and popular Hyperion eyepieces. Included in this offer are: 5mm, 8mm, 13mm, 17mm, 21mm and 24mm fixed focal length 68-degree AFOV eyepieces 31m and 36mm Hyperion Aspheric 72-degree AFOV eyepieces 8-24mm MK IV Hyperion Zoom 8-24mm MK IV Hyperion Zoom…

New Solar Continuum Filter

Baader Planetarium have released a new Solar Continuum Filter in 1.25″ and 2″ variants. This new model has a half-band-width of 7.5nm (compared to 10nm for the previous version) which increases the contrast even more. This new single filter is so good that stacking is no longer necessary. To see how good the new filter is…

Practical Astronomy Show 2022

The first Practical Astronomy Show (PAS) was held in 2019 and was a great success with lots of attendees as well as exhibitors. Due to Covid, the 2020 and 2021 events were postponed…but the good news is that PAS 2022 is going ahead. Baader Planetarium will have their UK representative at the show with a…

Baader’s new UFC and M68 Tilter Adaptors

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 June 10th 2021 Solar Eclipse

In just over a week, an annular Solar eclipse will take place on the morning of Thursday June 10th. An annular eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Earth and the Sun but the Moon’s apparent diameter is smaller than that of the Sun’s due to the Moon’s orbit being elliptical and it being…

Here comes Venus….

Its hard to believe that a year has gone by since Venus seemed to be around for ages and was riding high in our evening sky during the late winter and spring months. This year, after its superior conjunction on March 25th 2021, Venus will once again start to become part of our evening sky…