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.…
Baader Planetarium offers a very well engineered adjustable mounting accessory that is ideal for attaching telescopes, guiding telescopes and heavy telephoto lenses (all up to a total payload of 7kg) safely and securely to your main telescope or mount. This mounting device is called the Baader Stronghold Tangent Assembly. It is made from hard anodised…
For the first time in what has seemed a very long while, it was clear the other night (15th Jan). As I was about to close the blinds I noticed a bright star low in the south west and thought at first it was going to be a bright ISS pass until I realised it…
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…
If you want to use a field flattener or focal reducer with your camera, the camera’s sensor will need to be accurately placed at a specific position to get the best image quality. You can use fixed-length spacers (extension tubes) to help with positioning, however the problem with these is that, depending on your configuration,…
Black Friday and Cyber Monday is over and now we’re on the run up to Christmas! We’ve put together a collection products from Baader Planetarium that may be of interest to you, as a treat to yourself, or for someone to buy you, or for you to buy someone you know who is into astronomy,…
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…
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…
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…
Lunar observing is very popular amongst a large number of amateur astronomers. For some, it has been the Moon that has been the first celestial target that they have pointed their telescope towards, and/or the original source of their astronomical curiosity and fascination that has led them to further develop their interest of “more things…
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…