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The equatorial wedge is essential for long exposure astrophotography. The wedge allows you to tilt the telescope so that its polar axis (R.A. axis) is parallel to the earth`s axis. The angle of tilt will depend on your latitude when the telescope is level. The angle between the horizon level and the polar axis will equal your latitude when the telescope`s axis is parallel with that of the Earth`s. Once properly mounted and adjusted on the wedge, the telescope is equatorially mounted and it can now track objects as they move across the sky.
The equatorial wedge is essential for long exposure astrophotography. The wedge allows you to tilt the telescope so that its polar axis (R.A. axis) is parallel to the earth’s axis. The angle of tilt will depend on your latitude when the telescope is level. The angle between the horizon level and the polar axis will equal your latitude when the telescope’s axis is parallel with that of the Earth’s. Once properly mounted and adjusted on the wedge, the telescope is equatorially mounted and it can now track objects as they move across the sky. For All CPC Series (and Nexstar GPS and Ultima 2000) telescopes, this heavy-duty wedge is available for the astroimager. It increases the rigidity of the telescope while giving a 0° to 90° range of operation.
This kit attaches to your Heavy Duty Wedge (see item above) and gives you fine motion control in altitude and azimuth for easy and accurate polar alignment.
This combination focal reducer and field corrector lens accessory works with all Celestron 5",6", 8", 9.25", 11" and 14" Schmidt-Cassegrain telescopes. This clever accessory makes it possible to have a dual focal ratio instrument, without sacrificing image quality. The Reducer/Corrector is f/6.3 for C5, C6, C8, C9.25 and C11 telescopes and f/7 for the C14 telescope. It offers wide fields of view with any Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope. Used for astrophotography, it reduces exposure time by a factor of 3.
Series 4000 f/3.3 CCD Focal Reducer/ Field Flattener: Permits ultrafast CCD imaging; reduces CCD exposure times by up to 80%. Threads on to the rear cell of all Meade LX-Series mirror-lens telescopes. Converts f/10 Schmidt-Cassegrains to f/3.3
The f/6.3 Focal Reducer/Field Flattener 1) reduces the main telescope's focal ratio by a factor of 0.63 (e.g., from f/10 to f/6.3), thereby reducing photographic exposure times by about 50%
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This high quality compact speaker features: • Rechargeable Lithium-Ion battery charges from computer USB port • Extension cable for flexible placement of speaker while using the SkyScout. • Nylon Lanyard to hang the speaker around your neck while using the SkyScout. • Expandable woofer for optimum sound quality • The speakers have been thoroughly tested and guaranteed not to affect the SkyScout pointing accuracy
The Celestron SkyScout Connect is an adapter that allows your SkyScout Personal Planetarium to control your Celestron computerized telescope. Once you’ve located or identified an object in the SkyScout database, a simple push of a button slews your telescope to that object so you can observe it at your leisure while your Celestron scope tracks the object flawlessly. In addition, the SkyScout Connect adds GPS capabilities to any Celestron computerized scope that doesn’t already have GPS built in. It makes scope set-up and alignment on the sky even easier for those Celestron telescopes not already equipped with GPS. The SkyScout Connect works with any Celestron SLT, NexStar SE, Advanced Series, CPC, and CGE telescope. It consists of a cradle with built-in electronics that holds your telescope’s NexStar hand control, as shown in the feature image below. The cradle is attached to your scope’s tripod leg by a supplied Velcro strap. Your NexStar hand control and SkyScout are hooked up to the SkyScout Connect cradle using the supplied cables. The NexStar hand control can be operated while mounted in the SkyScout Connect cradle or can be hand-held at the end of its coiled cord as normally. If you do not have a recent version of the SkyScout, you will have to download the latest version of the SkyScout firmware (which contains the new SkyScout Connect control program) from this download location on the Celestron website. See it in operation at this YOUTUBE link.
The Meade MySky PLUS is a revolutionary new way to explore and learn about the night sky. It is a multi media handheld device with a colour LCD screen on the back which guides you through what you are pointing the device at through video, audio and text presentations. Full GPS auto alignment system. Database of over 30,000 celestial objects. Fully compatible with Meade AutoStar enabled telescopes with an optional cable. Click Here for more.
24' long coiled cable set for Meade MySky
Whether you currently own a telescope or are contemplating a purchase, our new NexImage Solar System Imaging Kit is a MUST HAVE! NexImage is a complete CCD solar system imager capable of producing high quality planetary images with greater light sensitivity and color fidelity than comparable CMOS imagers. Combined with the NexImage software package, NexImage can bring out tremendous detail and reveal a final image that will rival those taken with astronomical CCD cameras costing thousands of dollars more.
Improve the accuracy of your initial star alignments on your Celestron Telescope by plugging in the GPS module. The CN-16 will link up and automatically download the exact time, date longitude and latitude from one of many global positioning satellites. This kit contains the CN 16 GPS Accessory, mounting bracket for the CN 16 GPS Accessory, and Expansion Port Accessory to allow communication with the GPS Accesssory.
The Dew Shield is designed to wrap around the front end of your SCT telescope and reduce the amount of dew that builds up on the corrector plate. It also serves as a Lens Shade by preventing stray light from falling on the corrector plate, which greatly improves contrast.
Now you can take your telescope anywhere with this portable rechargeable power supply. Whether you have a computerized telescope or operate your telescope using motors, Celestron specially designed this product with the amateur astronomer in mind - this model is packed with useful features. Not only useful for setting up and powering your scope, this model can also be useful as an emergency roadside accessory as it includes an emergency light, and booster terminals in place to start weak car batteries.
Take your telescope anywhere with this portable rechargeable power supply. The extra large Power Tank 17 is also useful as an emergency roadside accessory. It includes an emergency light, siren, am/fm radio and booster terminals in to start weak car batteries.
We offer two densities of AstroSolar™, as Solar photographers have always criticised that the visual density of D=5 would be too dark for eyepiece projection work. Accordingly brighter "AstroSolar™ Photo Film" with density D= 3.8, provides shorter exposure times when using eyepiece projection.
Canon Digital SLR cameras are amongst the most popular cameras used for astro-imaging, being very sensitive and have a very high resolutions. The cameras have one drawback for astro-imaging . . . The original IR cut filter installed has poor transmission in the important red H-Alpha line. Many gas nebulae with H-2 regions are consequently difficult to photograph with a standard camera. Baader have made an IR cut filter that replaces the standard Canon filter. The filter has nearly full transmission in the H-Alpha line. This eliminates the cameras' only major disadvantage.
These are simple, but high quality, plain glass filters suitable for the beginner or enthusiast at a great price. The IR block filter must always be used in combination with the colour filters as the individual colour filters are not IR blocking, (unlike Astronomik's LRGB filterset. Used for making colour composites with a monochrome CCD camera.
This filter is a good choice for those who using large/faster achromats and also reduces the effects of Sodium light pollution. For users of Achromatic telescopes this filter enhances contrast, making objects appear sharper, brighter and clearer. It does this by reducing the violet & blue secondary spectrum often seen with achromats. Useful is for the observation of Planets, particularly Mars and Jupiter.
Excellent filter for cutting off the infrared and ultraviolet part of the spectrum. Band Pass is 420nm-680nm
The Baader U Filter is now the filter of choice for imagers exploring the UV world of Astro, landscape, floral, and even forensic imaging. Now with even higher transmission and much improved out of band (IR) blocking and consists of a 20 layer dielectric coating stack on a special optically polished substrate. The Baader Venus Filter enables amateurs to successfully image in the deep UV from 300nm to 400nm. Peak transmission of 80% and completely blocks the rest of the spectrum from 200nm to 1500nm. Used to record cloud structures on Venus, the Solar Calcium K-Line is also within the passband of this filter.
The BAADER Fringe-Killer Filter minimizes unwanted blue fringing, comparable to a Minus-Violet-Filter, while retaining a very pleasing color balance. This would be a contradiction in itself – only made possible by applying modern DWDM plasma assisted coating technology, allowing almost a hundred coating layers to be accumulated onto a planoptically polished substrate – without destroying the optical figure! This fineoptical tool will help a small refractor to really put the advertized magnification within reach. Performance rivals that of the most expensive color correcting lens systems, costing 20 times as much!
CCD imagers will find Baader's Narrowband 7nm H-Alpha passfilter to deliver the absolute highest contrast deep sky images of H-II regions, with the shortest exposures possible. Its narrow 7nm FWHM bandwidth has a transmission at H-Alpha of over 90%, while completely rejecting light pollution. The high optical quality of the Baader 7nm H-Alpha filter guarantees no loss in sharpness or contrast. Each substrate is fine-optically polished plane parallel to deliver a smooth and accurate 1/4 wavefront over the entire surface.
The New 35nm Ha Filter from Baader is ideal for imaging the broader Ha regions on distended objects even during full Moon. It is also usefull for imaging high contrast H-II regions in galaxies like M33 for example. A usefull filter particularly well suited to the slightly less sensitive Interline and similar CCD imagers that exist today.
The Baader OIII filter offers high contrast views of diffuse and planetary nebula, especially under extremely light polluted skies. The Baader OIII filter is one of the narrowest transmission band OIII filters on the market making it particularly well suited to CCD imaging thanks to its unsurpassed contrast. One of the narrowest transmission band OIII filters on the market
SII filter for narrowband imaging.
The Baader Planetarium UHC-S Nebula filter excels at delivering a high-contrast and natural view of emission nebula without excessive dimming and loss of background star fields. The perfect filter for viewing emission nebula from light polluted skies, or for boosting the contrast of nebula from dark sky sites. The advanced technology coatings enable the filter to achieve an outstanding transmission of over 97% across the entire passband, with total blockage of prominent light pollution lines. This translates to maximum image brightness and contrast. Owners of 4"-10" telescopes will especially appreciate the high efficiency, and larger scope users will love the rich star fields and detailed subtle nebular shadings that are left intact Go to Accessories Page 1, 2. |
Simply point the SkyScout at any star in the sky and click the "target" button.
Meade MySky PLUS. Imagine a gadget that fits, lightly and easily in your hand. Imagine it simple with no trailing wires, no complicated knobs and dials. Imagine you could point it to any astronomical object in the night sky and with a single press of a button - without any fuss - all the information about that object appears as if by magic displayed on the gadget in your hand - imagine too, that you can select any target from over 30,000 from a simple menu and the gadget will show you exactly where to look to see it. 
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Meade OIII Filter 1.25" - £65.00
For the observation of diffuse emission and planetary nebulae. Meade Oxygen-III (O-III) nebular filters provide an extraordinary level of nebular filtration on diffuse and planetary nebulae. Observations of these nebulae in a city environment with the O-III filter often yield more image contrast than observations of the same objects in a dark-sky setting without the filter.
Meade Nebula/Broadband Filter 2" - £168.00
The Meade 2" broadband filter can be used for imaging or visual work to enahance all types of nebula.
The filter simply screws in to any 2" eyepiece or accessory with a filter thread. Premium materials are used in the filters coatings and precision holder to ensure the best performance.
