Monthly Archives: August 2016

Olivon 1.25″ telescope filters

The Olivon 1.25″ filters come in various versions including Moon, Polarising and coloured filters. Each one comes in a hard foam lined case. The filters themselves have the Olivon logo showing. These are high grade glass filters with a metal … Continue reading

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The summer triangle image. Altair, Deneb and Vega

A canon EOS 1100D (un-modded) was used to take this image of the summer triangle, that includes the 3 bright stars Vega, Deneb and Altair in the constellations of Lyra, Cygnus and Aquila. This image was taken in heavily light … Continue reading

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Celestron Ultima 20-60×80 spotting scope 52250. Perfect for ship spotters

At the weekend a customer visited the Northern Optics outlet at the Waters` Edge centre , Barton Upon Humber looking for a quality spotting scope for looking at ships and boats out at sea or mainland rivers. After sampling a … Continue reading

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What is a telescope filter

When you look through your astronomical telescope at the night sky, telescope filters will help you see more detail. Filters come in many varieties to enhance viewing from light reduction, light pollution filters to different colours and ones that only … Continue reading

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Opticron DBA VHD 8×42 , 10×42 binoculars 30644 30645

The latest Opticron DBA VHD 8×42 and 10×42 binoculars offer high end ED glass with phase corrected BaK-4 prisms for outstanding clarity. The dual hinge body is lightweight at around 700g for great portability. The long 17-22mm eye relief means … Continue reading

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Olivon PC 10×42 binoculars for general use

The Olivon PC 8×42 binoculars were the optics of choice at the Waters` Edge centre public outlet for a customer looking for a high quality set for general use. After trying a few sets, they opted for the Olivon PC … Continue reading

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Helios Lightwing 8×32 binoculars 30135 First impressions

We had the first chance to give the new Helios Lightwing 8×32 binoculars a test this week. As always the first thing you see, or should I say feel is the build quality. Although they are compact in size, they … Continue reading

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North Lincs astro meeting 1st August 2016

The speaker at the North Lincs astro society meeting tonight was Charles Thody, who gave an excellent talk on photography using a DSLR camera on its own and through a telescope..This was a back to basics talk that was both … Continue reading

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