Astronomy Hub
Mention galaxies to someone and the chances are they’ll imagine a huge, spinning vortex of stars in space - but the reality is that galaxies are so much more than that. For example, if you were to ask those same people how many stars are in a galaxy, t...
In our world of point-and-shoot photography, it’s easy to take for granted how far we’ve come. We don’t always think about how difficult it was to capture those first few images of, well, anything, and how significant the emergent field of astrophotography has b...
When you think of a galaxy, you might think of a huge whirlpool of stars in space, but not every galaxy is like this. Besides regular spiral galaxies, there are barred spirals, elliptical, irregular, and even dwarf galaxies...
Your Apertura AD8 comes with many awesome accessories including a right-angle finder scope! This is a great tool to help you navigate the night skies, but the views through it MUST match the views through your AD8’s eyepiece. Otherwise finding objects m...
There are several ways you can improve your views through your Apertura AD8 and good collimation is likely the most crucial! Collimation is the process of aligning your primary mirror and secondary mirror with your eyepiece to provide the sharpest views...
Dew can be an absolute nightmare for any amateur astronomer; this includes visual astronomers as well as astrophotographers. Looking through your eyepiece, you’ll notice that the views will be significantly less clear, with what appears to be a film d...
In this episode of What's in the Sky this Month, Teagan reviews some of the beautiful celestial objects you can see in the month of March 2023...
Neptune is too close to the Sun to be visible this month, while Venus and Jupiter continue to shine in the evening twilight...
A globular cluster is a huge collection of stars grouped together in the shape of a sphere. Globular clusters can contain hundreds of thousands of stars, all tightly packed within a space roughly 60 light-years in diameter. It’s not known for sure how g...
If you are looking for the best Dobsonian on the market, the Apertura AD8 hits the mark in all aspects. The Apertura AD8 is a Dobsonian telescope with 8 inches of diffraction limited optics, a focal ratio of f/5.9, and a focal length of 1200mm. Manufactured...
If you are looking for the best Dobsonian on the market, the Apertura AD8 hits the mark in all aspects! The AD8 is a Dobsonian telescope with 8 inches of diffraction limited optics, a focal ratio of f/5.9, and a focal length of 1200mm. The AD8 is the...
Setting up a telescope can take some time, especially if you’re in a hurry. Indeed, stargazing can be a very uncomfortable experience with the wrong gear. It can be hot, muggy, and the air filled with mosquitoes; or it can be frigid cold and your fingers g...
It can be a little confusing trying to learn about telescopes when you’re just starting out in astronomy, and you may be afraid of appearing clueless at your club’s next observing night. Besides the seemingly endless hardware choices, there are a lot...
Both Saturn and Neptune are now too close to the Sun to be visible. Saturn will reach conjunction on the 17th, with Neptune reaching the same point next month...
Apertura is making collimation easier with the premium Cheshire Collimation eyepiece. This cost-effective tool is the perfect accessory for aligning the optics on your Newtonian telescopes. Learn how you can use the Apertura Cheshire Collimation Eyepiece...
