I recently bought a Celestron autoguider. It is supposed to make polar alignment and guiding simple because it is all in one package. The product installation was very easy.…
Because the Earth rotates on its axis, objects in the sky outside of the Earth's atmosphere, such as the moon, planets and stars, seem to rise in the east and…
I started out with visual astronomy. I initially struggled with mastering the Starsense auto align feature. The instructions in the manual were less than useless. After several attempts using the…
There are three basic types of telescopes. Refractor, Reflector and Catadioptic (the most common of which is the Schmidt-Cassegrain).
Refractor Telescopes
Refractor type telescope working
Developed in the early 1600s, this is the…
First where did my interest in astronomy start. It started when I took an undergraduate course in radio astronomy; I was at the time studying Electrical Engineering. during one…