Orion’s SkyQuest XX16g GoTo Truss Tube Dobsonian Telescope has an f/4.4 focal ratio. It comes with a 2″ dual-speed Crayford focuser, 28mm and 12.5mm eyepieces, and a 42,000-object database.

The XX12 is Orion’s first Dobsonian style telescope with an open truss-tube design. Recently, I had a chance to put the XX12 through its paces, and I must say that I came away impressed.

The European Southern Observatory’s new VISTA telescope’s enormous field of view allows it to image the entire nebula at once. ... The Orion Nebula is located about 1,350 light-years from Earth.

Beverly told me he used a William Optics GT81 telescope and a QHY168C CMOS camera. To create this photo, Beverly captured 35 three-minute sub-exposures for the light shots and an equal number of ...

The telescope observed about 40 pairs in a fabulously detailed new survey of the famous Orion Nebula. They've been nicknamed Jupiter Mass Binary Objects, or "JuMBOs" for short.