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Build Your Own Mini Observatory
Thursday, May 7, 2026 by Richard Harris
For many amateur astronomers the dream begins the same way. Carrying equipment into the backyard night after night. Polar aligning in the dark. Waiting for cables mounts cameras and software to cooperate while clouds threaten the only clear skies of the week. Then one day you imagine something bi...
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...
MLAstro SAL-66 beefy observatory class mount announced
Monday, January 19, 2026 by Richard Harris
2026 is already off to the races with many exciting new astronomy gear announcements, so lets add another one to the pile with a bit of a shocker from MLAstro. The announcement of the new heavy weight observatory class mount is a bit of a surprise since they are only just now shipping the second bat...
OpenAstro AlpacaBridge launches and why it matters
Tuesday, January 13, 2026 by Richard Harris
After spending decades in the field setting up mounts in the dark, chasing cables across frozen ground, and trying to make mismatched software talk to hardware it barely understands, I have learned to pay attention when someone tries to solve a real problem instead of adding another layer of noise. ...