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…
Do you own any Baader Planetarium products or are looking to buy some? Are you interested in “all things Baader”? Recently, we have been working on producing regular email newsletters for the range of products that David Hinds Ltd distribute and sell here in the UK – and that includes Baader Planetarium. In these newsletters…
We’re now just under a month away from Mercury’s transit across the face of our Sun on November 11th – see here for more details on this celestial event. To view or image this transit safely, Baader Planetarium offer a range of “ready made” Solar filters that use their AstroSolar ND3.8 (photographic only) and ND5.0…
Its not long before the transit of Mercury on November 11th 2019 – see our recent blog to read more on this event. To observe or image this event one must be very careful as viewing the Sun without proper safety equipment can cause permanent blindness and/or damage to photographic equipment. Baader Planetarium offer a…
Are you going away on holiday or to some dark sky site? Are you taking your DSLR with you and you want to take wide field images of the night sky? Do you not feel like taking bulky or heavy equipment with you (or maybe don’t have space in your luggage)? Baader Planetarium’s NanoTracker ultra…
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…
There is not to go before the Solar System’s innermost planet, Mercury, will cross the face of our Sun around lunchtime on Monday 11th November. Mercury’s transit will begin around 12:35h GMT. The time of greatest transit, that is when Mercury “is near the middle of Sun” is around 15:19hGMT, and the transit event ends…
A little while ago Baader Planetarium released an updated version of its popular Sky Surfer V finder scope. Originally designed for military use, the Sky Surfer V has exceptional build quality with the unit being water resistant and shockproof and the optics fog proof, all of which should make it last for many years. The…
If you have several eyepieces that will give you a range of different magnifications to look at the Moon, planets or deep sky objects with your telescope, you will have to manually take each one out and replace it with another in your telescope’s focuser. Baader Planetarium offer a different way of swapping eyepieces in…
Quite often we will write a blog suitable for clear skies….but as I sit and look at the forecast(s) for the week ahead its looking gloomy to say the least with heavy rain, thunderstorms and strong winds. So what can you do in the meantime apart from dreaming about a larger telescope, more eyepieces or…