Astronomy Product Review Blog

The VHT Nebula Filters from DGM Optics - First impressions Just a short Post, for now. You can see the full line of (1.25") nebu...

I'm very happy to have "picked up" visual Astronomy observing again. F/5.3 100mm Garrett Optical I finally managed ...

Just a quick heads-up: I recently purchased some "printed Astronomy materials" - A few books and...Star Atlases, etc. Including t...

Just a quick post, to let you know, that I've ordered a pair of innovative new "nebula" filters from a company called DGM Opt...

This Link  appears to be, the only place where the Ice Lipo filter is tested & discussed. I use it myself. Some notes from back in 201...

This fellow has created some amazing sketches: Collection of awesome sketches, made with Binocs PDF document discussing binocular mounts And...

http://www.saguaroastro.org/content/Great-Objects-for-Rich-Field-Telescopes.htm http://www.stargazing.net/david/binoculars/index.html

I've recently read, and found the following two books to be excellent! And, can recommend them: Binocular Astronomy (Patrick Moo...

Recently found an old film AP pic I took. I'm afraid I don't have a lot of info on this one. I can tell you it was taken years ago...

I suppose I should touch on the subject of how it's been, living with my disabilities. It's been about 2 and a half years now. I ba...

I tried tripod-mounted film Astrophotography again...Yes, a bit of Déjà vu here. I basically only ended up exposing ~1 roll of film per cam...

It's been quite a few years since I sold all my Astronomy books. There were some good ones in my collection. I've always especially ...

Here are some old pics I came across, of one of the Barn Door Trackers I had. I tried to get it to work...but literally blew out transistor...

Taken with a Canon 50mm lens, attached to Meade DSI CCD camera. ~200 exposures of 2.8 seconds each, stacked using Nebulosity software.

The "eagle" is not visible, since this is a very wide field shot. It is a very small dark area of nebulosity deep inside the nebul...

Going to try to fit in a lot of developments, in one post - In a nut shell: After many attempts at Astrophotography with 35mm film, I moved ...

Taken with the awesome Yashica Electro GSN 35. Slide film on EQ-1 tracking mount. Exposure ~1.5 minutes. Enhanced with Adobe Photoshop CS. C...

The Canon AE-1, in the lower right hand corner, is my most expensive (and most used) camera.

The shot above features the Orion constellation, on the right side of the pic. Below: The Pleaides and Hyades star clusters. It sure is nice...

The Gemini Constellation, shot outside my back window, in Bronx, NY. (under lots of light pollution). Used 35mm camera, slide film on Orion ...

Shot out of my back window, in Bronx NY. Camera: Minolta SRT-201, 135mm lens, Kodak E200 color slide film, exposed for ~30 seconds. Mounted ...

Taken with Minolta SRT-201, Kodak E200 Slide film, slide scanned on Epson 4490 photo scanner. Only very minor software enhancement.

Sigma SA-300, 28mm zoom lens, ~90 degrees, 30" exposure on Hypered Fuji 800 film. Minor enhancement with Paint.net. Andromeda galaxy vi...

Sigma SA-300, zoom lens set to 70mm, ~30" exposure, on Lumicon hypered - Fuji 800 print film. About 45 degrees above horizon. Enhanced ...