Steve Ringwood – Page 6

Baader Nano Tracker

17 January 2015 Steve Ringwood

Would you like to photograph Comet Lovejoy but don’t have a driven telescope mount? Now you can capture long-exposure wide-angle scenes with a DSLR camera using Baader’s diminutive yet fully-featured Nano Tracker.

Something nice for the wall

31 December 2014 Steve Ringwood

Do you feel that your current decor is a little drab? If so, give you room an out-of-this-world makeover with an astronomically-themed wallpaper mural!

Explore Scientific high resolution coma corrector

4 November 2014 Steve Ringwood

This Explore Scientific high resolution coma corrector is suitable for both visual and photographic use.

Mosaic-making: Asimoplan software

23 October 2014 Steve Ringwood

Visual observers now have the benefit of wide-field eyepieces but astro-imagers are somewhat limited to the size of their CCD chip and when it comes to imaging large objects, they must take several images and build a mosaic.

Intelligent alignment: Celestron’s StarSense AutoAlign

10 October 2014 Steve Ringwood

Enter the StarSense AutoAlign: a device that replaces your eye and the often inexact judgement of the glutinous mass behind it.

Telescope grooming kit: Orion six-piece optics cleaning pack

6 October 2014 Steve Ringwood

Cleaning optics should always be approached as a careful, precise, military-style operation; this corralled armoury includes cleaning fluid, dust removal brush, a VariAir 200 compressed air unit, lens tissues and cotton swabs.

Vixen BT-ED70S-A 70mm binoculars

2 October 2014 Steve Ringwood

These new ED binoculars from Vixen, a particular affinity to their telescopic cousins is by virtue of the freedom of available magnification, since the choice of 31.7mm fitting eyepieces is left to the user.

Hanging around in space: astronaut necklace

2 October 2014 Steve Ringwood

An enchanting 32mm replica of a spaceman, dangling with derring-do from a 61cm golden brass stellar-adorned chain.

Seeing the sights on Venus: Baader ultraviolet filter

2 October 2014 Steve Ringwood

If there is one thing you learn from the outset about Venus, it is that it is permanently shrouded in a blanket of cloud, but this filter will bring out some detail.