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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...
Moon Exploration Geology And How Artemis III Unlocks Habitable Worlds
Monday, June 15, 2026 by Trey Abbe
I think the Moon still has a lot to tell us. That may sound strange at first. After all, we have been sending spacecraft there for decades. We have mapped it, photographed it, landed on it, walked on it, and brought pieces of it back to Earth. You might think by now the Moon would have given up most...
Astrobin hikes prices across the board
Thursday, May 28, 2026 by Russ Scritchfield
As many of you have noticed, astronomy is getting more expensive. At the beginning of this year, when ZWO released the S30 Pro, it launched at what felt like a very approachable introductory price of $549. Within just a few short months, that price climbed to $699. It's hardly an isolated exa...
Optolong L2 Filters Tested: The April 2026 ScopeTrader Issue
Monday, April 6, 2026 by Richard Harris
Welcome to April, where galaxies are in full bloom. Here in Missouri the skies are finally starting to settle into something usable. If the pattern holds like it usually does, we tend to get our most stable stretch somewhere between April 10th and the end of the month. Those are the nights where ...