How to attach your phone to a telescope using a saxon ScopePix
Having a telescope is awesome. You can look at all manner of things astronomical and wonder. For many people, though, just seeing the Moon isn’t enough. To quote my millennial…
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saxon AZ-EQ6 Pro Mount with Steel Tripod
saxon have released the AZ-EQ6 Pro Mount with Steel Tripod. If you have ever wanted to purchase an AZ-EQ6 Pro then now is the time. The saxon AZ-EQ6 Pro Mount…
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Sidereal Trading are happy to announce the release of the saxon FCD100 Air-Spaced ED Triplet Refractor Series. These telescopes feature Japanese Hoya FCD100 optics. Relying on technological innovation, Hoya have successfully launched…
Read MoreThe (mathematical) wonders of a solar eclipse
Eclipses have been seen as an omen by nearly every civilization. Being able accurately predict an eclipse would give a leader immense persuasive power. Ancient astrologers noticed that solar eclipses followed a pattern. Get it right and you’re in for a promotion. Get it wrong and things might not be so good.
Building a wide field deep sky imager for long exposure times
In this blog we put together a deep-sky, cooled camera and lens rig for wide-field autoguided imaging. We used components that fit together without having to drill new holes. This will go onto a go-to equatorial mount and give us long exposures with any camera lens. It also provides extra mounting points for autofocus motors, computers, or other components.
Encoders: what they are, do you need them, and if so, what type?
Now that Sidereal Trading is offering Paramount astrophotography mounts, we need to understand about the encoders that they use. Encoders are a way of telling your mount where it is pointing