Orion bought Meade, which had bought Coronado. Then Orion went out of business in the summer of 2024. In January, 2025, High Point Scientific purchased the remaining inventory of new equipment and is selling it off in a fire sale.

Here is what you need to know to get some great deals on some great equipment.

My mount and my guiding were conflicting with each other, so I got this crappy image of the Iris Nebula

Some useful web sites to help you plan your Astrophotography sessions.

Why are we obsessed with megapixels when we should be obsessed with pixel size?

With only a 30 minute window between sunset and its disappearance behind the trees, I managed to get this image of the comet.

One of the brightest and best shows of Northern Lights in Solar Cycle 25!

Today, we're going to explore one of the most fundamental constants in the universe, and the basis for how our particular form of time travel works: the speed of light.

British astronomer Herbert Hall Turner combined the words "parallax" and "second" in 1913 and created the term 'parsec."

In astronomy, conjunctions are when two objects in the sky are visually close to each other.

If you're very lucky, you get to witness a once in a millennium event that comes down to pure chance.

The Milky Way

You live in the Milky Way galaxy. It's home base. It's where almost everything you can see with your naked eye lives, too. Some people can see the Andromeda galaxy, and if you live in the Southern Hemisphere, you can see two small galaxies (the LMC and SMC) that orbit the Milky Way....

Today, this Astropotamus went 8 minutes and 14 seconds into the past and looked at the sun through a solar safe filter on the Time Machine.