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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.

A naked-eye comet graces our skies

7 July 2020 Mark Armstrong

Comet 2020 F3 (NEOWISE) is putting on a fine showing in the pre-dawn northern sky after emerging intact from perihelion (closest point to the Sun).

Black hole observatory launched from Japan

17 February 2016 Stephen Clark

Japan launched a pioneering observatory with X-ray vision Wednesday to peer into the mysterious, light-starved neighbourhoods around black holes and study the genesis of galaxies and other cosmic mega-structures billions of light-years from Earth.