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Astrophotography Competition and FAS 2017

30th September 201721st March 2022 Nicholas 2017, astrophotography, blog, competition, FAS, theia90

Hello! We are happy to announce our first Astrophotography competition! Full details can be found on the competition page here.

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Theia90 Diagonal Progress

4th September 201721st March 2022 Nicholas ias, show, theia, theia90

Hello! We are working hard on bringing you even more new products. If you have been following us you will

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Diagonal with a filter slot built in & Upcoming event (NAM 2017)

6th May 201721st March 2022 Nicholas 2017, filter, nam, nam2017, render, theia, theia90

Hello. Its always been our plan to build a range of accessories to bring new life into the astronomy accessory

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Our Own Eyepiece holders

17th June 201621st March 2022 Nicholas design, eyepiece, render

To provide us greater control over the whole design we are working on making our own eyepiece locks. Named Maia

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Small Turret Progress

6th April 201621st March 2022 Nicholas design, small, turret

The design on the small turret is progressing. This version is intended to be injection moulded from impact ABS so

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Design progress on Medium Turret + Old Video

20th March 201621st March 2022 Nicholas indiegogo, medium, sketchfab, turret, video

Medium Turret Progress For all intents and purposes the updated design for the medium turret is done! All the engineering

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Preparing for Kielder

2nd March 201621st March 2022 Nicholas Kielder, party, star, turret

We have our first event as a vendor coming up at Kielder Forest Star Camp so in preparation I have

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New 3D printed Prototype

28th February 201621st March 2022 Nicholas 3d print, design, paint, turret

Got the first look at the scale of the new medium turret today as the latest print from my 3D

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Medium Turret Progressing Nicely

24th February 201621st March 2022 Nicholas design, turret

The design on the medium turret is coming along nicely. We have decided that we will use click-locks to hold

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Feedback and redesign

4th December 201521st March 2022 Nicholas design, feedback, render, turret

Took the aluminium prototype to a starparty and got some good feedback. Everyone was interested in the design and had

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Alpha Lyra Reviews

On Our Theia 90 Star Diagonal
“First impressions of the diagonal itself are very favourable, looking like a solid and well-engineered piece of equipment.“ “Using Jupiter and a third quarter Moon, I evaluated scatter around the object which can diminish the visibility of low contrast surface features.  If there were any differences in brightness and extent of the scatter (measured against the position of the Galilean satellites), I was unable to see it.“ “All these tests lead me to conclude that mirror in the Theia90 is of high quality and very much the equal of other quality, highly reflective mirror diagonals”

On Our Cerberus Case"The team seem rather proud of these cases and just how robust they are as Nick (who stands over 6 feet tall) demonstrated to me at Astrofest by standing on the case and then jumping up and down on it.  [...] the Cerberus Case would be an excellent choice for an eyepiece case or as a travel case for a small 6-8cm aperture scope and accessories for trips to dark distant lands as those dimensions comply with the most restrictive of hand baggage allowances."
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