Orion - Useful Accessories
Here you will find a broad selection of useful accessories from Orion.
Orion - Useful Accessories
Here you will find a broad selection of useful accessories from Orion.
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Easy Payment: We offer our customers several easy and fast payment methods. You will receive exact payment details when ordering or on request! |
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| 90 Degree Angled Finderscope for easier location of an object |
Glass Solar Filters Robust design, aluminium cell |
Flexible Dewcaps For various different telescopes |
Astro - Flashlights Red or red / white LED flashlights - adjustable brightness |
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| Focus Knobs Aluminium and brass focus knobs. "Spice Up" your telescope |
Observer Chair adjustable height observer chair |
12V Dew Remover Gun Effectively removes dew from a telescope |
Primary Mirror Cooling Fan With battery case To be mounted on the primary mirror cell |
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| Lens Pen Cleaning tool for all optical parts. |
12 V - Cigarette Lighter Cable Power supply for various telescope mounts, cameras, ... |
Motorfocus With hand paddle - for many telescopes |
Anti Vibration Pads These pads reduce vibrations of a mount considerably |
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| Half Pillars For Atlas, Sky Pro and many other mounts |
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90 Degree Angled Finderscope - Erect Image Bad quality finderscopes are a well known and well feared facet of many telescopes. Finding objects is a matter of luck and patience. Not so with Orion's 90 degree angled finderscope.
- good quality achromatic objective - coated |
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 Quick Release Finder Base |
Quick Release Finder Base These finder bases fit most of today's finderscopes, such as: Vixen, Celestron, Skywatcher, GSO, Helios, Konus, ... You can release a finderscope within only a few seconds. Prices and availability: Please see our new Online Shop |
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Glass Solar Filters
Good optical quality and safe viewing
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These filters permit only about 1/1,000 of a percent of the solar light. The rest is safely reflected away. This is the reason why these filters look like mirrors. The high energy sunlight doesn't reach the inside of your telescope, where it could otherwise cause significant damage. There will also be no heat buildup inside the telescope, further increasing the image quality. Instruments with the focal plane near one of the optical elements, such as reflecting telescopes, can only be operated with an objective solar filter. But we generally recommend to use objective side solar filters rather than eyepiece filters in all cases! The sun will keep its characteristic white colour. The filters are ideally suited both for photography and visual application. Each glass filter is mounted in an aluminium cell that fits snugly over the aperture of your telescope. Various sizes exist (see table below). |
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Prices and availability: Please see our new Online Shop
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Please send requests or online orders to: sales@telescope-service.com
Flexible Dewcaps
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Many observing nights end abruptly because of dew on the telescope's objective. Flexible dewcaps minimize this problem by effectively reducing the formation of dew. The dewcaps fit snugly around the telescope tube and is fastened with velcro. They are made of durable plastic that won't break. For transport just wrap the dewcap around the telescope tube - that way you won't have extra transport volume and will also protect the tube. |
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Prices and availability: Please see our new Online Shop |
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Please send requests or online orders to: sales@telescope-service.com
Astro-Flashlights
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These are not just refitted normal flashlights, but rather LED flashlights specifically made for astronomy. The brightness is infinitely adjustable, both models offer red light, the DualBeam also has a switch that will turn to white light instead if the need arises. The lamps can be operated with gloves on. By adjusting the brightness you will always have the right amount of light, be it for reading a star chart or for walking around the observing site. Power drainage is very low, the batteries will last up to 600 hours. Dimensions of the flashlights: only 25 x 30 x 100mm The lamps can tolerate very low temperatures much better than many conventional flashlights.
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Please send requests or online orders to: sales@telescope-service.com
Focus Knobs
"Spice Up" your telescope
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Beautiful Aluminium Focus Knobs with Rubber Grips The focuser is probably the most frequently used component of a telescope. Unfortunately many telescopes are only equipped with cheap plastic knobs that are not comfortable to use and ugly to look at. These focus knobs are not only used for improved ergonomics, but also for their great looks. A telescope will immediately look much more "expensive" just by adding these nice gimmicks. The TS / Orion focus knobs fit on all focusers whose focus knobs are held by a central screw. (Vixen, GSO, Skywatcher, Celestron, Meade, many others) |
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Top Design Brass Focus Knobs These look really great. In our opinion they match ideally on black tubes, but also to white tubes. A telescope will just look so much more "high-quality" with these knobs on. The adaptation is identical to the aluminium focus knobs. Prices and availability: Please see our new Online Shop |
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Please send requests or online orders to: sales@telescope-service.com
12V Dew Remover Gun
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Even with a dewcap there will still be a slow formation of dew on most telescopes. Once there is too much dew you might not be able to continue observing at all. Cleaning the optics with a piece of cloth is not recommended because of the risk of damaging the telescope. The Solution: The 12V Dew Remover Gun! All cars and Powertanks have a cigarette lighter plug. Just plug in the 12V dew remover gun and you can remove the dew from the optics with warm air - you don't need to touch the optics so there won't be any scratches. The slightly warmed glass will also prevent the formation of further dew for a while. Further Information: Visit our new Online Shop! |
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Please send requests or online orders to: sales@telescope-service.com
Primary Mirror Cooling Fan
For Newtonian telescopes and similar designs - to be mounted behind the primary mirror.
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Amateur astronomers often spend a lot of money on a mirror substrate with good thermic properties for quicker cool-down. But for the image quality the mirror substrate is not important, so long as it is homogenous and without internal stress. There is a very simple way to reduce the cooldown time even with simple mirror substrates: An active cooling fan that is mounted behind the primary mirror. How it works: Mounting the Fan
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Please send requests or online orders to: sales@telescope-service.com
Lens Pen - Cleaning Tool
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Cleaning Tool For Eyepieces, Lenses, or even Telescopes
The Lens Pen is a dedicated cleaning tool for all kinds of optical surfaces. Further Information: Visit our new Online Shop! |
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Please send requests or online orders to: sales@telescope-service.com
12V Cigarette Lighter Cable
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With this cable you can connect many mounts (like EQ-6, Astro-5 with dual axis drive, Vixen GP / GP-DX, Celestron CAM, ...), cooling fans and many other electric accessories to a standard power tank or a car using a cigarette lighter plug. Prices and availability: Please see our new Online Shop |
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Please send requests or online orders to: sales@telescope-service.com
Motorfocus
Focus without touching the telescope - with hand paddle!
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Focusing by hand often is a frustrating experience, especially with simple focusers and an undersized mount. Vibrations and coarse motion of the focuser will make finding focus a game of chance. The Motorfocus offers comfortable and easy focusing by pressing onto two buttons on a hand paddle. Orion Motorfocus |
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Please send requests or online orders to: sales@telescope-service.com
Orion RockStable Anti Vibration Pads
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Orion Anti Vibration Pads are made of a special visco-elastic material that damps out vibrations quickly. Vibrations are one of the most common problems of many telescopes - whenever you touch the focuser of the telescope, or whenever there is a bit of wind, the image will start shaking and takes some time to stand still again. The Orion RockStable Anti Vibration Pads reduce the time until vibrations have died down significantly! Fields Of Use The Anti Vibration Pads work best on a firm ground, on a balcony, ... Prices and availability: Please see our new Online Shop |
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Please send requests or online orders to: sales@telescope-service.com
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 Sky Pro / Vixen GP / EQ5 / Giro / ... Half Pillar |
 Orion Sky Pro with Half Pillar Most GP-compatible mounts will work like this |
 Orion ATLAS (similar to EQ-6) with half pillar |
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| Long telescope tubes have the tendency to collide with the tripod of a mount. Owners of refractors, long Newtonians, Maksutov-Newtonians etc. certainly know this problem. The Orion half pillars were made to correct this problem. But the half pillars have other advantages as well: - the risk of the tube colliding with the tripod is reduced to a neglectible minimum - you need not extend the tripod as much, resulting in a better overall stability - you get a higher operation height compared with the tripod without a half pillar. Viewing position of long refractors will be raised to a more comfortable height. The half pillars were made for Orion mounts, but also fit many other common mounts.
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Please send requests or online orders to: sales@telescope-service.com
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