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RASA telescope filter wheel becomes reality with Wanderer FilterCube
Tuesday, May 19, 2026 by Richard Harris
For anyone using a RASA, the challenge has never just been monochrome imaging. It’s the reality that changing anything in front of the telescope can become an exercise in frustration. Whether you’re swapping between an Optolong L-Extreme, a quad-band filter, or moving back to b...
miniCAM8 camera deep sky combo review
Wednesday, April 29, 2026 by Richard Harris
QHY is a well-recognized name in astrophotography. They build cameras trusted by professional observatories and by hobbyists like me who crave that level of excellence at a reachable price. As many of you know, the smart telescope world is booming right now - just last month I reviewed ZWO's new...
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 ...
Automating Astrophotography with PULSAR
Wednesday, March 25, 2026 by Russ Scritchfield
PULSAR is a general purpose software system for reduction and processing of astronomical CCD and CMOS imaging data. Each tool performs a single well defined operation on FITS images, and the tools compose into automated pipelines that carry your work from raw frames to calibrated, combined, and enha...