How to attach your phone to a telescope using a saxon ScopePix
Having a telescope is awesome. You can look at all manner of things astronomical and wonder. For many people, though, just seeing the Moon isn’t enough. To quote my millennial…
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saxon AZ-EQ6 Pro Mount with Steel Tripod
saxon have released the AZ-EQ6 Pro Mount with Steel Tripod. If you have ever wanted to purchase an AZ-EQ6 Pro then now is the time. The saxon AZ-EQ6 Pro Mount…
Read Moresaxon Apochromatic FCD100 Air-Spaced ED Triplet Refractor Telescopes
Sidereal Trading are happy to announce the release of the saxon FCD100 Air-Spaced ED Triplet Refractor Series. These telescopes feature Japanese Hoya FCD100 optics. Relying on technological innovation, Hoya have successfully launched…
Read MoreCatching a Lunar Eclipse using a remote facility
For the Lunar Eclipse of September 2025, Bill used a remote facility that Sidereal Trading had installed at a club in Victoria to get a sequence of images. It didn’t go quite to plan, but he got the shots anyway.
What objects can you see with a small refractor telescope?
What can this thing see? It’s a common question This is what a client asked me this morning. I’ve been asked a number of times now and I thought it’d…
Read MoreHow to get a nice sharp image of a Lunar eclipse
Lunar eclipses, or blood moons, are really cool, and people love getting photos. But during the eclipse the Moon is dark and a photo doesn’t show the same details as a normal full Moon. This tutorial shows how to capture the sharpness of the full moon and still get the colour of the blood moon.