Figure 1 Image Credit: NASA First Half of 2022 – NASA - JWST Full Deployment and Orbital Insertion at L2 So, what’s the big deal? The first few weeks after launch, the JWST observatory was a flurry of activity as...
Just before Thanksgiving, a group of friends and I drove up the coast from Los Angeles to Vandenberg Space Force Base near the town of Lompoc to witness the launch of the Double Asteroid Redirect Test mission, or DART. The...
It's October and you know what that means, it's Libra season! There's just one problem: no one born in October “IS” a Libra. In fact, everyone born from about September 17 all the way until November 1st falls under the...
Just this month, Sky-Watcher completed our remote site at the Falling Eagle Observatory. The observatory is fully remote and features: 3 Sky-Watcher Esprits (2 Esprit 150s, and a 100 piggyback) ZWO 6200MM & 6200MC Paramount MX-Plus & MyT Mount This...
2020 hasn't been kind to many of us. Between the devastating wildfires, a global pandemic and the subsequent economic uncertainty, this year has been rough on everybody. But here at Sky-Watcher North America, we’re optimists! We don’t pout about a cloudy...
As governments and medical professionals across the globe are fighting the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic, most of the public is being asked to stay home to help curb its spread. Although our homes are often plagued with light pollution, now is a...
To our valued Sky-Watcher community, Since the first cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) arrived in the US, Sky-Watcher has been monitoring the spread of the virus across the country. Earlier today, Rockland Community College announced restrictions on events exceeding 50 people...
At Sky-Watcher, we may have more experience hanging a refractor atop an EQ8-R and our Christmas Ham needs some work but if there's one thing we know, it's astronomy. And although this hobby is expensive, we've scoured the internet for...
For newbies in astronomy, the realization that cameras come in both monochrome & color can lead to a lot of confusion. Why spend thousands of dollars, just to shoot in black and white? To answer this question, we need to...
