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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 ...
Watusi 150 equatorial fork mount for advanced astronomy
Friday, March 27, 2026 by Richard Harris
If you have carried a bag of counterweights across a dark field, you know their special brand of gravity. They are reliable in only one way. They always feel heavier by the minute. So when a well executed equatorial fork shows up with carbon fiber arms and no counterweights, that deserves attention ...
Seeing color clearly with color science tools
Thursday, March 26, 2026 by Russ Scritchfield
Spend enough hours staring at a screen trying to tame a stacked image and you learn that color is not a flavor choice. It is a measurement problem, full of assumptions about spectra, sensors, displays, and our own eyes. We publish images on the web, and the web speaks sRGB by default. That means eve...