Astronomy Product Review Blog

Objective Reviews of products for Amateur Astronomers.

Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Upcoming Product Review - The CLS-CCD Filter from Astro-Shop

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The next product to be tested and reviewed here, will be the ( original ) CLS-CCD Filter (Clip-In for my Canon T5i). Which can be seen Her...
Sunday, July 15, 2018

Book Review: The Deep-sky Imaging Primer, 2nd Edition

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I'm so glad to have found this book! It's definitely one of the best I've seen so far, on the subject of Astrophotography - And...
Wednesday, June 27, 2018

A Few Of My Most Recent Images

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I'm definitely overdue for the sharing of some images... These are...Umm...not very good. But, they are the best I've been able to...
Friday, June 22, 2018

Finally! A Decent Lens For My Canon T5i 📷

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To make a long story short, until now, the only 2 lenses I had for use with my (Astro-modified) Canon T5i were: A very beat-up Canon 75...
Sunday, April 15, 2018

Electronically Assisted Astronomy...

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I just stumbled upon this gentleman's site . And absolutely love his work; especially his writing. He very eloquently (and amusingly...
Friday, November 6, 2015

A Document On Nebula Filters, And A Book On Astro Sketching

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I've always been a huge Fan of the light pollution filters made by Omega Optical (I usually order them from DGM Optics). If interested,...
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Saturday, October 31, 2015

VHT Nebula Filters From DGM Optics

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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...
Saturday, September 19, 2015

Finally: A Binocular Telescope!

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I'm very happy to have "picked up" visual Astronomy observing again. F/5.3 100mm Garrett Optical I finally managed ...
Saturday, December 15, 2012

Star Atlases: The Good, The Bad, And The Not-So-Good...

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Just a quick heads-up: I recently purchased some "printed Astronomy materials" - A few books and...Star Atlases, etc. Including t...
Monday, November 26, 2012

The Best Kept Secret In Nebula Filters! DGM Optics!

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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...
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Monday, September 12, 2011

Light Pollution Filters

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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...
Wednesday, March 30, 2011

More Great Binocular-Related Links!

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

Great Binocular Links!

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http://www.saguaroastro.org/content/Great-Objects-for-Rich-Field-Telescopes.htm http://www.stargazing.net/david/binoculars/index.html
Tuesday, March 22, 2011

A couple more very brief Book Reviews

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I've recently read, and found the following two books to be excellent! And, can recommend them: Binocular Astronomy (Patrick Moo...
Sunday, March 13, 2011

Old film photo - Corona Borealis

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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...
Thursday, March 10, 2011

A Brief Post On Being disabled.

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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...

Tried Film Astrophotography again...

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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...
Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Some "Quick & Dirty" Book reviews

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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 ...
Monday, February 7, 2011

One of several old Barn Door Trackers...

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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...
Sunday, July 27, 2008

The Andromeda Galaxy

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Taken with a Canon 50mm lens, attached to Meade DSI CCD camera. ~200 exposures of 2.8 seconds each, stacked using Nebulosity software.
Sunday, July 20, 2008

Messier Object M16

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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...

Messier Object M23

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Thursday, July 3, 2008

A multiple-update post -

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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 ...
Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Random Star Field near Cygnus

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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...
Saturday, March 29, 2008

My current (low budget) equipment

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