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ASTRONOMY GEAR                               


BELOW YOU'LL FIND LINKS TO SOME OF THE MANY ASTRONOMY EQUIPMENT SUPPLIERS.
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Image at Chiefland Star Party by Jason Higley (but it's not my gear.)

LINKS CHECKED AND WORKING AS OF 19 FEBRUARY, 2023
Telescopes
Altair (no VAT on U.S. sales)

Celestron
Explore Scientific
iOptron
ISTAR Optical
Lunt Solar Systems
Meade Instruments
Obsession Telescopes

Omegon
Orion Telescopes
Planewave Instruments
Questar
Sky-Watcher Telescopes
Stellarvue
Takahashi America
Tele Vue Optics
TEC (Telescope Engineering Co.)
William Optics
Mounts
10 Micron Mounts
​Advanced Telescope Systems
Astro Physics
AstroTraq
Avalon Instruments
Carina Instruments
Celestron
Equatorial Platforms
Losmandy
Mathis Instruments
Orion
Software Bisque's Paramount
Astro Cameras
Finger Lakes Instrumentation
Fishcamp Engineering
Luminera Astro Cameras
Mallincam
SBIG - Diffraction Limited
Starlight Xpress
ZWO ASI Cameras
Accessories and Eyepieces
Astrodon Filters
Astrozap
Bobs Knobs
Chroma Optical Filters
Catseye Collimation
Clement Focuser
DayStar Filters
Hotech Laser Collimator
Kendrick Astro Instr.
Optec
Peterson Engineering
Precise Parts
Rigel Systems
Shelyak Instruments
StarGPS
Starlight Instruments
Unihedron (sky quality meters)
Wood Wonders (cases,chairs)
Observatories
Ash Dome
Astro Domes
Astrohaven
Explora Dome
Home-Dome
New Mexico Skies
Observadome
SkyShed Observatories
More Astro-Stuff
David Chandler Company Plansipheres
Protostar (scope making/upgrading)
Hubble Optics
PreciseParts
ScopeStuff
Waite Research
Astronomy Magazines
(check out their online editions)

Astronomy Magazine
Astronomy Technology Today
Sky & Telescope
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Sky at Night Magazine

Astro Websites
Cloudy Nights
​
Cloudy Nights Classifieds​
Skymaps.com (free PDF maps)
skymaponline.net
Software
Astronomy Android Apps

Astrospheric (weather app)
​Carina Software
Cartes du Ciel (free)
Diffraction Limited Maxim DL
Knightware 

Redshift Sky 
​Registax (free) image proc. (also check out the new WaveSharp that came out in 2023)
RSpec (Spectroscopy)
Skyhound
skymaponline.net (free)
Software Bisque's The Sky
Starry Night
Stellarium (free)

Worldwide Telescope for Windows (free)
None of the above entities are affiliated this website or with me, Jason Higley.  This directory is provided for informational purposes only; the websites appearing above are responsibility of their owners regarding their own content, and I don't necessarily endorse or recommend their products (although some have some very fine products.)
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Telescope is a Takahashi FRC 300
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An older StarStructure telescope (with interesting color) at Chiefland Star Party. Image by Jason Higley
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Prototype scope tent at Chiefland Star Party. Image by Jason Higley
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