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Cooled CCD
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£999.00
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The Opticstar DS-616C XL uses the Sony ICX413AQ,
6.1 mega pixel colour CCD (1.8").
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Meade LX90 ACF 12" UHTC
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£3100.00
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The Meade LX90 ACF 12 UHTC is a 12" advanced
catadioptric with a computerised fork mount.
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Altair 8" RC Astrograph
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£1099.00
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The Altair 8" F8 Ritchey Chretien
is a true astrograph with a carbon fibre optical tube and two dovetail plates.
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Skyliner-300P FlexTube
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£849.00
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The Skyliner-300P FlexTube feature retactable
optical tubes, making them easy to transport and store offering the
ultimate flexibility...
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Sky-Watcher NEQ6 PRO
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£959.00
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NEQ6 PRO (EQ6 PRO) is the extra heavy duty,
computerised mount from Sky-Watcher with a load capacity of 25kg.
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Ascension 80ED Triplet
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£745.00
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The Ascension 80ED Triplet APO from the premium
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Meade LT 6 ACF
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£1066.00
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The Meade LT 6 ACF with Advanced Coma Free optics
sets a new high performance standard for its price range.
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Opticstar LRGbB
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£39.95
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The Opticstar LRGbB
filters. A set of 5 1.25" filters for imaging.
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Cooled CCD
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£995.00
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The Opticstar DS-145C ICE uses the highly sensitive
Sony ICX285, 1.4 mega pixel colour CCD with 62% QE.
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Opticstar ED80S Gold
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£449.00
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The Opticstar ED80S Gold with dual speed Crayford
focuser and apochromatic fluorite doublet
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FPL-53 objective. Durable all-metal construction...
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Auto-Guider Kits
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£79.80
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Elegant, low-cost Auto-Guider
connectivity kits from Shoestring Astronomy.
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SXVR-H36 (SXVF-H36)
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£4349.00
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The Starlight Xpress SXVR-H36 is the 16
mega pixel camera with fast USB 2.0 interface.
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The Imaging Source
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£274.00
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The DMK / DFK / DBK series of CCD video
cameras from The Imaging
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Source feature a FireWire or USB 2.0 computer interface.
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Ascension Accessories
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£90.00
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The Ascension 8x50 LED Finder Scope
incorporates a cemented doublet achromatic 50mm
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objective with blue coatings, precisely machined body and integrated
adjustable illuminated cross-hair...
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Willmann Bell
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Willmann Bell section last updated: 20th April 2013
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Willmann Bell is the leading publisher of astronomical books, serving astronomers worldwide
since 1973.
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Telescope Design and Testing
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[NEW] Telescopes, Eyepieces, Astrographs.
Design, Analysis and Performance of Modern Astronomical Optics is about
every optical element between your eye or your imaging sensor and the night sky.
This book covers optimized designs found in today’s astronomy market, explores
the origins of different systems, analyzes their optical properties and assesses
their performance.
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Star Testing Astronomical Telescopes - 2nd edition.
Many observers harbour misgivings about their telescope. The manufacturer
may have guaranteed accuracy to "one-quarter wavelength" or as
"diffraction-limited" but most telescope users have, at best, only a
hazy idea of how to personally verifying such claims.
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Telescope Optics.
This book will both arouse your curiosity and answer your questions.
Why are there so many different kinds of telescopes? What does each
type have to offer? What makes one telescope better than another?
Which are best? Why? What are the tradeoffs? As a telescope buyer,
you will be better informed; as a telescope maker, you will be able
to design custom optics.
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Making A Refractor Telescope.
With this book, you will learn that making a lens involves the same
simple practices and common tools involved in making a mirror. You will
find there is nothing mysterious or unique. Yes, there are more surfaces
to finish, but all are spherical. The author adopts the role of coach
and guides the reader, step by step.
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The Dobsonian Telescope.
This book tells how you can build a state-of-the-art Dobsonian telescope
using readily available materials and supplies. Every step of construction
is detailed in photographs and diagrams, and the underlying ideas are
carefully explained. This is the result of a three-year collaboration between
authors David Kriege and Richard Berry, two experienced and well-known telescope
makers.
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[NEW] Amateur Telescope Making. All aspects of building a telescope
are covered in this series of books across three volumes including mirror making, optical
testing, refractor telescopes, telescope mechanics, telescope adjustments, binoculars,
Schmidt cameras, optical flats, eyepieces, small lenses, optical coatings, coating equipment,
mirror making, optical testing, workshop wisdom and much more.
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Astrophotography and Photometry
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Photoshop Astronomy - 2nd editon.
Among the myriad computer programs used by astrophotographers, none is as popular
or versatile as Adobe Photoshop. However, to take full advantage of the program's
capabilities requires vast amounts of time. If a shortcut exists for mastering the
tools and techniques needed to properly massage an astrophoto, R. Scott Ireland's
book Photoshop Astronomy is it.
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Introduction to Digital Astrophotography - 2nd edition.
This book is a 400+ page comprehensive, nuts-and-bolts introduction to digital
astro-imaging written by Robert Reeves, an accomplished author and film imager
with nearly 50 years of experience who has enthusiastically made the transition
to digital imaging. Robert describes how the family digital camera you probably
already own can be used to take spectacular pictures of the night sky.
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[NEW] Webcam Astrophotography.
In the last few years video astrophotography has exploded onto the astronomy scene.
It has rapidly evolved from short exposure six-bit black-and-white imagery into
long-exposure full-colour 16-bit per channel imagery of such quality that it rivals
"conventional" means of astrophotography.
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[NEW] Observing and Photographing the Solar System.
Covers amateur observation and photography of the planets. Several hundred photographs
and line drawings of exceptional quality compliment the clearly written text.
Unlike deep-sky observing, meaningful observations can be made in your own backyard.
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Astronomical Photometry.
Photometry, the measurement of light flux, is one of the most fundamental and
oldest research techniques employed in astronomy. It is also an area where valuable
contributions can be made by amateur astronomers using small telescopes. Most people
who do photometry have learned the hard way, because how-to books in this field are
very few and often incomplete.This book fills the gap for both amateur and professional
astronomers who wish to learn the techniques of photoelectric photometry.
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Handbooks for Astronomy
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Solar Astronomy Handbook.
This book is not so much about the Sun, but about the opportunities for amateur
astronomers to observe the Sun. This book was conceived and written by a group
of German amateur observers. Each section was the responsibility of the amateur
who had made that aspect of solar astronomy his specialty. The emphasis was on
the practical and covers the kind of solar astronomy within the reach of most
amateurs.
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Charts and Guides
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The Year-Round Messier Marathon Field Guide.
This "guide" is really much more than the title might suggest. It is part
star atlas, part descriptive text, part telescope primer, and part strategy
session, all held together with the infectious enthusiasm of its author. The
whole first third of the book is chock full of practical information on
telescopes and observing.
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[NEW] The Arp Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies.
In 1966, astronomer Halton Arp compiled his Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies,
which featured 338 images of some of the strangest looking galaxies and
galaxy groups then known to exist. The purpose of the Atlas was to
graphically present structural peculiarities in galaxies.
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[NEW] Men, Monsters and the Modern Universe.
A book of three parts: first, a complete old-time star atlas; second, a set of universal seasonal star
finder charts and; finally, a modern star atlas with a catalog of selected objects suitable for naked
eye or small telescope observing.
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Uranometria 2000.
The stunning "Next Edition" of the world-famous Uranometria 2000.0. The most
comprehensive stellar/deep sky atlas and data resource we have seen, the
three volumes of Uranometria 2000.0 are so much more than a "Second Edition,"
they can only be considered the fulfillment of that process to which the first
edition was but prologue. Years in development, this massive achievement
affords astronomers, astrophotographers and CCD imagers.
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The Night Sky Observer's Guide.
A subtitle to the three-volume Night Sky Observer’s Guide could have been Burnham's
Celestial Handbook: The Next Generation... (it is) a bible of very deep-sky observing,
taking objects constellation by constellation with full page charts and numerous
smaller finder charts and drawings. Tables list variable and double stars, and a
few individual stars are highlighted.
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Imaging Brochure
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Sample Images
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Opticstar PL-130M CoolAir
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posted: 10th February 2009
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An impressive 9.4 megapixel mosaic of the Moon by Herwig Sulzbacher with
the Opticstar PL-130M.
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Pixel Response Effects On CCD Gain Calibration
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A&M 152mm f/8 Review
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"Fantastic Performance" "Beauty of a Ferrari"
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updated: 25th March 2009
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Read the latest review about the A&M 152mm f/8 A&M/TMB on
Cloudy Nights.
According to the review this telescope combines the "beauty of a Ferrari" with
"fantastic performance". The review also states that "the manufacturer's claims are valid".
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