nPAE Events Program 2026
Welcome to 2026 astronomers. Another great year is upon us. If you haven’t already you can download our free calendar and Star Map Year Planner at these links:
If you are lucky enough to be at this year’s Winter Star Party in Florida, you can pick up a hardcopy Star Map or calendar sticker in person.
We start the year with our Northern Hemisphere astrophotography completion. The closing date is the 28th of Feb’. You have to be in it to win it! Of course the Northern Hemisphere winner advances to the nPAE World Champion Astrophotographer public vote. The 2025 nPAE World Champion is Rod Prazeres from Australia. We will have his Wold Champion interview sometime in March where he will be talking about The Wolf’s Cave Nebula and his own astrophotography journey. In June we will be on to the Southern Hemisphere stage. Follow our social media channels for all updates.
We have a big year of events lined up for our Flip Turret Tour ’26! We are taking this beast of an eyepiece and camera turret on the road. You will be able to get hands on with the unit and see how you can mount 7 accessories with filters onto your large telescope. Courtesy of chatgpt we even have a new tour truck 😉 We start with the Practical Astronomy Show in the UK on March 7th. Then we touch down in the United States for the North East Astro Fair (NEAF) in New York, on the 11th and 12th of April. We then move to Europe for the Astronomie und Techniktreff (ATT) in Essen, Germany on the 9th May. The summer will see us at the Federation of Astronomical Societies Convention in Cardiff, Wales on the 27th June and finally the tour ends in Herstmonceux, England at the Astronomy Festival from 28th to 30th August. If you run an astronomy event please reach out to us. We may be able to attend in person and if not we’ll send you a giveaways pack!
If you already know what nPAE product best suits your needs, you can buy online – with free world wide delivery – at our online store:
We wish you all a fantastic 2026 and look forward to meeting you in person at the shows. Clear skies!
The nPAE Precision Astro Engineering Team
