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Back to the Moon
Saturday, April 4, 2026 by Richard Harris
I never get tired of the Moon. Not because it is mysterious or because it needs a story to make it worth looking at. I get tired of plenty of things. The Moon is not one of them. If you have ever pointed a telescope at the terminator line and watched craters snap into contrast, you already know w...
How to use a telescope
Saturday, March 7, 2026 by Richard Harris
So you’ve just unboxed your brand-new telescope. Maybe it’s a sleek refractor, a sturdy Dobsonian, or one of those smart telescopes that runs on an app. Now you’re standing there asking what just about everyone asks the first time they look at a telescope and think seriously about ...
Super fast hyperbolic newton astrograph by Telescopi Italiani
Thursday, January 22, 2026 by Richard Harris
There is a certain kind of telescope that tells you exactly what it is trying to do. The TIn series from Telescopi Italiani is built for one job: produce a very wide, very well corrected imaging field at extremely fast focal ratios, and do it in a package that can live in a remote observatory withou...
Collimate your scope with an Aline iPhone iPad method
Friday, November 21, 2025 by Richard Harris
That dirty little word we all love to hate - collimation. I’ve met plenty of astronomers who never truly learn to collimate their scopes, choosing instead to live with the subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) artifacts of misaligned optics. Yet collimation remains one of the most critical step...