Astronomy Hub
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...
Your Apertura AD8 comes with many 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...
There are several ways you can improve your views through your Apertura AD8 and good collimation is likely the most crucial! Your Apertura AD8 comes with an included laser collimator that will allow you to complete the collimation process in under two...
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...
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...
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...
Stars are born in clusters from huge clouds of gas and dust in space called nebulae. Eventually, most of these clusters will break apart as the individual stars drift away into space. The majority of open star clusters, therefore, comprise fairly young...
Have you ever wondered how to create a really high-resolution image of the Moon? Something that looks straight out of the Apollo missions? The easiest way to do this is to combine panels at high magnification...
If you purchased your solar eclipse glasses from High Point Scientific, regardless of the brand, you can be assured that they are certified to be safe for solar viewing when used as directed. If you purchased your glasses from another vendor or were gifted...
There are eight planets in the solar system (including the Earth), and although you can see the five brightest with the naked eye, you really need a telescope to catch them at their best. Let’s review each one and get an idea of what you can expect t...