Introduction: What this review is and is not This lens is to be used for wide field star-scapes and sky imaging. It is not going to be used for architecture, interior spaces, wide field daylight landscapes. There are a lot of reviews on YouTube and elsewhere about this lens concerning all these subjects, but… not... Continue Reading →
Mount Type: German Equatorial Instrument Capacity: 17 kg. (37.5 pounds) Weight of equatorial head without counterweights: 16.5 kg. The EM-200 Temma 3 is the most recent update/upgrade for the Takahashi EM-200 series of mounts. Having not seen a slew of reviews on the net about it, I decided to get one done. At first glance,... Continue Reading →
Each will open in a new browser tab. Where is Webb? Updates on the project & instrument status and timeline. https://webb.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html NASA's JWST main page: https://jwst.nasa.gov/index.html JWST Blog with latest and greatest news and updates: https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/ JWST Twitter Feed: https://twitter.com/NASAWebb JWST News Posts: https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/news.html Flickr Account: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/ JWST Image Resources: https://webbtelescope.org/resource-gallery/images JWST YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/NASAWebbTelescope... Continue Reading →
It has been a while since a review. Here is a quick writeup of the Shelyak LISA Spectrograph, a product that has been available for some time now, but only within my reach this month. It has been a pleasure working with it, and it's not my first experience with Shelyak Instruments, a company based... Continue Reading →
This can get really complex, and, as you imagined, very expensive. There is this sudden realization that good scopes are pricey, and the less expensive ones are, well, to be honest, not worth the cash. They end up in closets or basements. For a first time telescope, especially for kids, I always recommend a really... Continue Reading →
