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Tiny astrophotography rig built by Cuiv
Thursday, February 12, 2026 by Richard Harris
Astronomy gear keeps leaning toward two virtues that often tug in opposite directions. Portability so you will actually carry it out. Power so your images do not leave you wishing you had brought the big rig. Cuiv, The Lazy Geek set himself a simple challenge. Build the smallest kit he could that st...
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...
Star tracker with a strain wave gear in Optron HST MiniTracker
Monday, December 8, 2025 by Richard Harris
iOptron has introduced a new strain wave gear approach to sky tracking with the HST MiniTracker. Just as jet engines revolutionized aviation by packing far more power into a compact form, strain wave gears have transformed modern astronomy - first in high-end GOTO mounts, and now, finally, in ultra-...
EF lens controller and adapter for astronomy cameras released
Friday, September 12, 2025 by Russ Scritchfield
There's a new product in the wild, that makes using Canon EF and EF-S lenses with astronomy cameras a bit more straightforward. If you’ve ever hauled heavy focusers out under the sky and thought There’s got to be a better way, this is for folks like you. Pinefeat has release...