Acuter solarus 80 solar telescope and mount

Earlier this year, First Light Optics announced a new addition to its in-house brand of telescopes, the StellaMira range. The 86mm f/7 quadruplet refractor is the first four-element telescope in the c

The NYX-88 from Greece-based Pegasus Astro is a compact harmonic drive mount, named after the Greek goddess of the night. It’s the smaller sibling to the NYX-101 and weighs just 5kg, supporting payloa

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In a remote mountain range in Chile, a newly unveiled observatory will soon begin mapping the sky. When its survey starts, the Vera C Rubin Observatory will spend every night for the next decade chart

Driving up dusty mountain roads flanked by cacti and colourful bursts of wildflowers, it’s hard to imagine these quiet peaks in the Chilean Andes are home to some of the most sophisticated astronomica

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