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How To Choose a Telescope
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Choosing a Telescope for Astronomy - The long version
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How To Choose A Spotting Scope
How To Choose A Spotting Scope
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What Will You See Through a Telescope
What Will You See Through a Telescope
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Telescope Power (Magnification)
Telescope Power (Magnification)
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Short Tube vs Long Tube- What's the Difference
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Observing Double Stars
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Observing The Sun
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Seeing in the Dark at Orion Store
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Star Magnitudes
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Telescope Myths
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Orion SkyQuest XT6 IntelliScope
Orion SkyQuest XT6 IntelliScope
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Maksutov-Cassegrain Telescopes
Maksutov-Cassegrain Telescopes
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Orion StarBlast 4.5 EQ Reflector
Orion StarBlast 4.5 EQ Reflector
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Orion's Big Mak
Orion's Big Mak
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Why a Dobsonian Telescope is Such Good Value at Orion Store
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What Does Focal Length Mean?
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The Essence of Birdwatching
The Essence of Birdwatching
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Astronomy With Binoculars
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Seeing in the Dark at Orion Store
Seeing in the Dark
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Two Eyes are Better than One
Two Eyes are Better than One
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Benefits of Barlows
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Illuminated Reticle Eyepieces
Illuminated Reticle Eyepieces
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Astronomy Under Light-Polluted Skies: What's to See
Astronomy Under Light-Polluted Skies: What's to See
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About Finder Scopes
About Finder Scopes
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Dealing With Dew
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Orion Expanse Eyepieces
Orion Expanse Eyepieces
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Orion Eyepieces
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Exporting from Starry Night
Exporting from Starry Night
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Books For Autumn Reading
Books For Autumn Reading
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Sizing Glass Solar Filters for your Telescope at Orion Store
Sizing Glass Solar Filters for your Telescope
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How Do I Read a Star Chart?
How Do I Read a Star Chart?
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Telescope Mounts
Telescope Mounts
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Amateur Astrophotography
Amateur Astrophotography
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Astrophotography: The Big Picture
Astrophotography: The Big Picture
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Camera Adapter
Camera Adapter
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The SteadyStar Adaptive Optics Guider
The SteadyStar Adaptive Optics Guider
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Star Magnitudes
Star Magnitudes
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Observing and Photographing Meteors
Observing and Photographing Meteors
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Autoguider Receives Accolades From S&T
Autoguider Receives Accolades From S&T
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Astronomy
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What's Hot: Astrophotography With Your Cell Phone!
What's Hot: Astrophotography With Your Cell Phone!
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Monthly Deep-Sky Challenge: The Virgo Diamond at Orion Store
Monthly Deep-Sky Challenge: The Virgo Diamond
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In The News - May's Planetary Conjunction
In The News - May's Planetary Conjunction
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What's In the Sky - May
What's In the Sky - May
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Solar Observing: Terminology
Solar Observing: Terminology
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Solar Observing: Recording Sunspots
Solar Observing: Recording Sunspots
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Comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring To Brush By Mars
Comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring To Brush By Mars
Tammy Plotner

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Comet PANSTARRS Set To Sparkle Northern Skies
Comet PANSTARRS Set To Sparkle Northern Skies
Tammy Plotner

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Catching Comet Lemmon
Catching Comet Lemmon
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Tammy Plotner

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What Is A Comet?
What Is A Comet?
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How Do I Observe A Comet?
How Do I Observe A Comet?
Tammy Plotner

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How To Log Your Comet Observations
How To Log Your Comet Observations
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The Arrival of Comet C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS)
The Arrival of Comet C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS)
Tammy Plotner

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Start Observing Comet C/2012 S1 ISON
Start Observing Comet C/2012 S1 ISON
Tammy Plotner

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How to Determine a Comet's Brightness at Orion Store
How to Determine a Comet's Brightness
Tammy Plotner

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Judging the Size of a Comet's Coma and Tail
Judging the Size of a Comet's Coma and Tail
Tammy Plotner

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What is an Arc Second?
What is an Arc Second?

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How Do I Judge Sky Conditions?
How Do I Judge Sky Conditions?
4.0 / 5.0
Orion Staff

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How Do I Read a Star Chart?
How Do I Read a Star Chart?
Orion Staff

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Orion's Top 37 Sites in the Sky at Orion Store
Orion's Top 37 Sites in the Sky
Regular Contributor, Daryl from Dunwoody, Georgia

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Observing and Photographing Meteors
Observing and Photographing Meteors
Orion Staff

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Observing the Moon
Observing the Moon
Orion Staff

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Observing Planets
Observing Planets
Orion Staff

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Enjoying Astronomy
Enjoying Astronomy
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Stars and Deep Sky Objects
Stars and Deep Sky Objects
Orion Staff

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The Messier Objects
The Messier Objects
Orion Staff

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Constellations
Constellations
David A

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Seeing in the Dark at Orion Store
Seeing in the Dark
Orion Staff

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Celestial Coordinates
Celestial Coordinates
5.0 / 5.0
Orion Staff

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Observing Double Stars
Observing Double Stars
5.0 / 5.0
Orion Staff

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Orion's Top 37 Reasons to Dust off your Telescope
Orion's Top 37 Reasons to Dust off your Telescope
Regular Contributor, Daryl from Dunwoody, Georgia

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Observing Variable Stars
Observing Variable Stars
Orion Staff

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Observing The Sun
Observing The Sun
Orion Staff

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Sketching at the Telescope
Sketching at the Telescope
5.0 / 5.0
Orion Staff

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Astronomy With Binoculars
Astronomy With Binoculars
5.0 / 5.0
Orion Staff

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Star Magnitudes
Star Magnitudes
Orion Staff

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Observing Deep Sky Objects
Observing Deep Sky Objects
Orion Staff

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Exploring the Three Realms
Exploring the Three Realms
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Constellation In Focus: Scorpius
Constellation In Focus: Scorpius
Sean O'Dwyer

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First Steps in the Deep Sky
First Steps in the Deep Sky
Geoff Gaherty

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Starhopping 101
Starhopping 101
Geoff Gaherty

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The Lure of Variable Stars
The Lure of Variable Stars
Geoff Gaherty

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How Far are the Constellations?
How Far are the Constellations?
Mary Lou Whitehorne

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Easy Telescope Targets
Easy Telescope Targets
Pedro Braganca

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Star Charts for Planning Observations
Star Charts for Planning Observations
Geoff Gaherty

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Galileo, Saturn & Starry Night
Galileo, Saturn & Starry Night
Brenda Shaw

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Constellation In Focus: Aquarius
Constellation In Focus: Aquarius
Sean O'Dwyer

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Constellation In Focus: Cassiopeia
Constellation In Focus: Cassiopeia
Sean O'Dwyer

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Constellation In Focus: Auriga
Constellation In Focus: Auriga
Sean O'Dwyer

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And the Sun Has Perished Out of Heaven
And the Sun Has Perished Out of Heaven
Claire Rothfels

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Constellation In Focus: Cancer
Constellation In Focus: Cancer
Sean O'Dwyer

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Observing the Red Spots on Jupiter
Observing the Red Spots on Jupiter
Geoff Gaherty

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Constellation In Focus: Hercules
Constellation In Focus: Hercules
Sean O'Dwyer

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Constellation In Focus: Sagittarius
Constellation In Focus: Sagittarius
Sean O'Dwyer

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Constellation In Focus: Cygnus
Constellation In Focus: Cygnus
Sean O'Dwyer

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Constellation In Focus: Aries, Triangulum, Andromeda
Constellation In Focus: Aries, Triangulum, Andromeda
Sean O'Dwyer

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Constellation In Focus: Pegasus
Constellation In Focus: Pegasus
Sean O'Dwyer

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Cold Weather Observing
Cold Weather Observing
Geoff Gaherty

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Constellation In Focus: Perseus
Constellation In Focus: Perseus
Sean O'Dwyer

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Constellation In Focus: Canis Major
Constellation In Focus: Canis Major
Sean O'Dwyer

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