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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 ...
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...
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Galaxies previously unseen discovered with help from physicist
Tuesday, March 24, 2026 by Richard Harris
I chase photons that perhaps left their homes before our oceans found their tides (if you believe photos actually travel anyway). Those photons slide into a sensor as if they are shy travelers, and if I treat them with patience they will draw a picture that was always there, just hidden under the no...
MOTHRA telescope 1,140-lenses to map the cosmic web
Friday, March 13, 2026 by Trey Abbe
A new astronomical instrument is being developed to capture the faint glow of the cosmic web with a scale and simplicity that set it apart. Built as an array of 1,140 individual objective lenses working together, the system trades a single large mirror for many smaller optics, enabling exceptional s...