If you’ve read any of my Astronomycolumns in , you know that I do a lot of astroimaging and value high-quality equipment. And next to a telescope’s optics, the most important piece of equipment is the ...

Most of today’s amateurs are familiar with fork and German equatorial mounts. Both have their pros and cons, but a common problem with each is that the mounted telescope’s position is offset from the ...

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Pointing at stars may seem easy on the surface—just mount a telescope to a tripod and you’re done, right? As anyone who’s spent time with a telescope can tell you, it’s not that simple, given that the ...