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SOLAR TELESCOPE FULL-FIELD AUTOGUIDING
Daystar ♦ daystarfilters.com Innovations Foresight ♦
innovationsforesight.com
The SkyGuide software program is ASCOM-
compliant and works with Maxim DL to eliminate
the need to single out one star to track in the
image from your autoguiding camera. Rather, the
software uses advanced algorithms to analyze the
entire i eld for tracking, thus improving the overall
signal-to-noise ratio (a huge benei t when there are
no bright stars in the i eld) and minimizing guiding
errors caused by seeing-induced star motion.
U.S. price: from $675 U.S. price: $50
ZERO BACK FOCUS BINOVIEWER LOW-PROFILE FOCUSER
FOR IMAGING
Orion Telescopes & Binoculars ♦
oriontelescopes.com
Optec ♦ optecinc.com
You don’t have to hunt far on the internet to i nd
observers waxing poetic about using binoviewers
for two-eyed gazing through telescopes. What
makes the new Premium Linear BinoViewer for
Telescopes special is that it’s the i rst we’ve seen
that requires zero additional back focus without
changing a telescope’s magnii cation. As such,
it will work with any telescope and matching
eyepiece combination that already reaches focus
without the viewer. Optec wrote the book on temperature-
compensated focusers that automatically keep
cameras in perfect focus as telescope optics vary
because of changing nighttime temperatures. Its
new TCF-Leo Low-Proi le Focuser has a robust
3-inch aperture and is designed to work with
telescopes that have tight restrictions on the
distance between the focuser’s mounting point and
the camera’s detector (for example, the Celestron
EdgeHD models).
U.S. price: $499.99 U.S. price: $1,295
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Daystar’s new SS60-ds Solar Scout offers one
of the best price-to-performance ratios we’ve
ever seen for a scope that delivers tunable
sub-angstrom hydrogen-alpha views of the Sun.
The 60-mm scope is designed for visual and
photographic work, and there’s an optional $200
bundle that includes a 1¼-inch diagonal and
25-mm eyepiece, universal AC adapter, and a
rechargeable battery for powering the scope’s
Quark i lter in the i eld.
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