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14 January 2025

Reviewed: Tele Vue Apollo 11mm Commemorative eyepiece

8 March 2022 Astronomy Now

As a huge fan of Tele Vue’s eyepieces, Richard Deighton couldn’t wait to get his hands on their new commemorative Apollo 11mm eyepiece, but despite its exclusive nature, does he find it stacks up as well as Tele Vue’s other wide-angle eyepieces?

Futuristic astronomy: Vaonis Stellina ST80 observation station

4 March 2022 Ade Ashford

Do you wish to capture deep-sky images from your back garden without the steep learning curve of traditional astrophotography? Stellina may be all you need, writes Ade Ashford.

Remote imaging with Telescope Live

1 March 2022 Astronomy Now

Fed up with cloudy nights spoiling your astro-imaging fun? Nik Szymanek gives the lowdown on the Telescope Live remote-observing facilities that allow imagers to capture objects in the southern celestial hemisphere without even stepping outdoors.

Raspberry Pi high quality camera

25 February 2022 Astronomy Now

Geoffrey Lenox-Smith tests whether the Raspberry Pi’s new High Quality camera can be used for astrophotography.

Unistellar EVscope Equinox

22 February 2022 Ade Ashford

Unistellar’s eQuinox delivers five times the internal data storage and longer battery life than its predecessor, but ditches the eVscope’s electronic eyepiece. Ade Ashford checks out the new features.

Reviewed: OVNI-M FOM 2600 Night-vision eyepiece

29 July 2021 Gavin Orpin

Tired of straining your eyes trying to see faint fuzzies through the eyepiece, and looking for views reminiscent of astro-images? The OVNI-M night-vision eyepiece might be just right for you.

Telescope review: Unistellar’s eVscope, the next generation of telescope

23 August 2020 Ade Ashford

The eVscope is the brainchild of three scientists and one industrial engineer. Together, they founded Unistellar to realise their dream of a portable, self-contained and easy-to-use instrument for astronomers that they say is “100 times more powerful than a classical telescope.”

SharpStar D 150mm f/2.8 HNT: An imaging telescope with sharp vision

27 May 2020 Ade Ashford

Until comparatively recently, your best tool for capturing wide-angle vistas of extended deep-sky objects with a full-frame DSLR or CCD/CMOS camera was a fast prime lens from one of the big-name players in photography. Now you can attain these swift imaging speeds with hyperbolic Newtonians, such as the SharpStar 15028HNT.

TS-Optics Photoline 60mm, f/6 FPL53 apochromatic refractor

3 April 2020 Ade Ashford

Ade Ashford reviews TS-Optics’ versatile grab-and-go 60mm f/6 photo-visual telescope.

TS Photoline 60mm f/5.5 apo travel ‘scope

31 July 2017 Ade Ashford

It’s holiday time again and the keen observer is faced with the usual dilemma: how does one carry a telescope small enough to be useful to far-flung dark and exotic skies? Fortunately for globe-trotters concerned about optical size and weight, Telescope Service in Germany has the TSAPO60 — a compact and very versatile photo-visual 60mm f/5.5 ED refractor.