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Orion® Announces the SteadyStar ™ Adaptive Optics Guider

The following is the announcement of the Orion® SteadyStar ™ Adaptive Optics Guider from Orion Telescopes & Binoculars.

If you're serious about astrophotography, Orion brings you a new way to assure the best tracking performance possible, even in adverse conditions.
The SteadyStar Adaptive Optics Guider (AO) makes any imaging-capable mount, even if a modest one, performs more effectively. Precise tracking is one of the most critical facets of astrophotography and this tracking is limited to the accuracy of your mount, plus external factors like wind and atmospheric seeing conditions. The SteadyStar AO Guider overcomes these limitations and challenges and takes control with super fast and accurate guiding.

Star Trails and Fireflies by Steve Irvine

Canon 50D, Canon 20mm lens at f/3.2, 64 min. exp. (192 twenty second exp.) ISO 1600

http://www.steveirvine.com/astro/startrails_fireflyvi09.html

Strange Solar Flare (SpaceWeather.com)

Space Weather News for April 27, 2008
http://spaceweather.com

STRANGE SOLAR FLARE: No sunspots? No problem. Yesterday the blank sun unleashed a solar flare without the usual aid of a sunspot. At 1408 UT on April 26th, Earth-orbiting satellites detected a surge of X-rays

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