This guide is from our experience with telescope customers and hope it is simple and helpful in helping you choose a telescope! Towards that end, the first and in some ways only rule of telescopes is: Aperture is King! Aperture is the diameter of the main lens or mirror of the telescope. The bigger it […]
The purpose of an eyepiece is to magnify the focused image, and different eyepieces can be used to give different magnifications and fields of view. You will need to experiment with different ones to find the best one for a particular application. For example, if you want to observe a large area of sky, you […]
Select binoculars based on quality, comfort, clarity, and ease of adjustment. Good binoculars allow you to see vessels through haze, rain, or low light conditions. From far away, you can identify that buoy you’re looking for or the friendly twinkle of lights that signal you’ve made your expected landfall. Check the Field of View (FOV) […]
Can you focus your binoculars? Most people can’t! Don’t despair. There is help close by. There are two common focusing systems used in binoculars, Individual Eyepiece Focus and Center Focus. First: Individual Eyepiece Focus. This is simple to understand, and easy to do. This is the way to focus sealed optical tubes. It is usually the focusing […]
Observing the planets of our solar system with a telescope is an enjoyable part of amateur astronomy. And unlike other forms of observing, such as deep-sky, it can be done from the center of a city as well as out in the country. No travel required. If it is clear, we can quickly set up […]
A microscope video camera is a very important tool. Since the advent of the art of recording things visually, our world has changed for the better. We can not imagine a world without a video camera now. It helps us in making permanent visual records of the physical world that is so tiny that neither […]
We are going to be looking at some key points in regards to the Telescope Eyepiece by way of a checklist style article. We will be addressing the Magnification, Field of View and Barrel Diameter. Once you finish this article you’ll know how exactly to identify the Magnification of the Eyepiece, what’s meant by Field […]
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