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Questar is gone: The fate of the world's most famous compact telescope
Friday, July 3, 2026 by Richard Harris
Like a lot of amateur astronomers, I can still remember flipping through Astronomy magazine in the 1980s and stopping on those Questar ads. There it was, this small, polished, precision telescope photographed like a fine instrument, not just another piece of astronomy gear. I wanted one pretty bad b...
RASA telescope design technology
Tuesday, November 25, 2025 by Richard Harris
The Rowe-Ackermann Schmidt Astrograph isn't your typical telescope, it’s a high-speed astrophotography machine that you can't actually "look through" - you have to use a camera to see the fruits of it's optics. Think of it as the “mothership” of aperture and s...
How to buy the Tele Vue 24 Delos
Wednesday, October 22, 2025 by Richard Harris
There is a moment, under a steady sky (rare I know), when your eye and the eyepiece feel like one instrument, and the telescope simply fades away. The Tele Vue 24mm Delos is designed for exactly that moment. It pairs a comfortably long 20 millimeters of eye relief with a wide apparent field of 72 de...
Farpoint collimation tools on sale
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 by Richard Harris
A sale offering discounted prices on collimation tools for telescopes is underway at Farpoint. The promotion features laser collimators, Cheshire collimators, and autocollimators, aimed at users with Newtonian or Dobsonian telescopes. The sale includes a range of products designed to improve optical...