Tele Vue Optics, Inc

Tele Vue Optics, founded in 1977, has been thrilling amateur astronomers since 1979. It is our mission. It's in the materials we choose, the designs we create.

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🏆Congrats Franz Gruber💫
For the #AstroBin #IOTD on 06 November 2026:
"Abell 84 Planetarischer Nebel"

DIY Newtonian 600mm / 2100mm + Tele Vue 3" BIG Paracorr Type-2 (VIP-3010) + Baader CMOS 50x50mm R,G,B,Ha & OIII filters + QHYCCD QHY600 Pro M camera.

https://t.co/2PB2m1dhLh

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🏆Congrats Michael Wong💫
#AstroBin #IOTD on 1 November 2026

"Ganymede Occultation of Io (2026-10-20)"

Taken with C14 + Tele Vue 2x Powermate + ADC + QHYCCD QHY5III585C.

Scope with Powermate had focal length of 7.8 meters to capture the small moons.

https://t.co/8KfWReqGAE

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👁️Meet the Tele Vue Powermates™!🔭
Go beyond the Barlow to achieve compact, hi-power, fully corrected image amplification! Our 4-element design provides the magnification without the old-school limitations! Employ PM on your photo / visual scope:
https://t.co/xDzp12u7dw

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🌟SN 2026aaiv in spiral galaxy NGC-7331👽
Copyright @deepskydiver on Instagram.
Tele Vue-NP127is APO + LCL-1069 Large Field Corrector + ASI6200MM Pro 2025 camera on Software Bisque Paramount MYT mount. Oct 12/13th with SN at mag. 14.
Total LRGB exposure: 7 hr 25 min.

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🏆Congrats Lorand Fenyes💫
For the #AstroBin #IOTD on October 21, 2026:
"Jupiter X Moon: Flyby (IR)"
Amazing shot of jetliner!

Taken with GSO Newtonian 114/455 + Tele Vue 2" Paracorr Type-2 (VIP-2010) + IR Pass 685nm 2" filter + ToupTek ATR585M Camera.

https://t.co/4mtbMxU5yt

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🍾 Congrats to Butch Phaneuf 💫,
#CloudyNights Sketching Contest winner for September 2026:
'M22 / NGC 6656 in Sagittarius'
Sketched at Taxahaw, SC with a 24" f/5 Newtonian and 21mm TV Ethos @ 145x.

#TeleVue #Ethos
https://t.co/JSFkzfyAQC

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🏆Congrats Simon Labergere💫
For #AstroBin #IOTD on Oct. 18, 2026:

"Saturn - 6 years evolution"

Gear: Meade ACF 16" OTA + Tele Vue 2x Powermate + eADX + Player One Uranus-C and Uranus-M cameras on a Paramount ME mount.

Even big scopes need Powermate!
https://t.co/1Vcw43Zehe

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Myakka City, FL, inland of the Sun Coast, has an abundance of clear nights. Amateur Duncan Hanford has his Tele Vue-NP127is setup for imaging there. Our latest blog shows his work and 1st person account of getting involved in amateur astronomy and imaging. https://t.co/1memBYWdqP

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🏆 Congrats to Xuchao Yang! 🎉
Winner of the 13mm Nagler T6
at 2026 Starfest Star Party (Aug. 13-15)
held by the North York Astronomical Association.

Tele Vue is a proud sponsor of 2026 Starfest Star Party and wishes Xuchao "happy observing!"
#televue #nagler #Ontario

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☀️Day/Night Astronomy with 30y-old NP101!🌒
Sent in by R. Salomone and taken with Canon 90D @ ISO100 on 540mm f.l. NP101.

🌞Sun with Baader Hershel wedge showing active region 4551. Oct 12: 1/6400 & Oct 13: 1/4000.

🌕Crescent Moon. Oct 13: 1/40s & 1/60.

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🏆 Congrats to Shannon Calvert! 🎉

Winner of the Tele Vue 2x Barlow
Connecticut Star Party (Sept. 11-13)
held by the Astro. Society of New Haven.

#TeleVue is a proud sponsor of the #CT Star Party and wishes Shannon "happy observing!"
#barlow #connecticut #astronomy

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🏆Congrats Pierre Gilet💫
For the #AstroBin #IOTD on October 11, 2026:
"SATURN 2026/09/26" (color + mono).

Taken with Stargate 450P Goto Dob + Tele Vue 5x Powermate + Baader UV/IR cut + Player One (Saturn-C + Saturn M) SQR.
🔗 https://t.co/6EWN6qLEA9
#TeleVue #Powermate #Saturn

[Panagiotis Xipteras @xipteras]

🔭 A shadow with a mane #Barnard33
The horse does not shine at all, it is a cold knot of dust and molecular gas standing in front of IC 434, a thin curtain of hydrogen that Sigma Orionis keeps glowing from the side. Above it the Flame Nebula burns beside Alnitak and hides newborn stars that only infrared can reach.

From chin to mane the head spans about 3.5 light-years, so an airliner at 900 km/h would need more than four million years to cross it, and you would have to lay the Earth to Moon distance end to end some 86 million times.

📷 Eye and sensor #Astrophotography
January is the month, when the belt crosses the meridian around 22:00 to 23:00 and the Horsehead stands about 39° high in the south from southern Germany. Visually it is one of the hardest targets in the sky, and even a 5“ telescope with an Hβ filter and a low power eyepiece shows a ghost at best.

However, my CCD sensor saw it easily. This frame comes from my #Televue NP127is at f/5.2 (660 mm) with the QSI683 and an Astrodon 5 nm Hα filter, a pairing whose field of roughly 1.6° × 1.2° holds Flame and Horsehead in one portrait, while the narrow band shrugs off light pollution and spends every photon on hydrogen.

🏛️ When this light left #History
These photons set out around 650 AD. Yazdegerd III, the last Sasanian king, died near Merv in 651 and four centuries of Persian empire ended with him, while at Palenque K'inich Janaab' Pakal sat on the throne.

The Horsehead is slowly worn away by ultraviolet light and may last another five million years. Run that span backwards and you reach the Zanclean flood, when the Atlantic broke through at Gibraltar and refilled a nearly dry Mediterranean.

🐎 The hunter's horse #GreekMythology
Orion was a son of Poseidon, and from his father he took the gift of striding over the waves as if they were solid ground. He became the greatest hunter of his age, until pride took hold and he boasted he would kill every animal the Earth had raised. Gaia answered with a scorpion, small enough to ignore, whose sting brought the giant down.

Zeus set both in the sky on opposite sides, so the Scorpion rises only when Orion sinks in the west. The horse at his belt is a modern name, first noticed by Williamina Fleming on a Harvard plate in 1888, yet it fits, because Poseidon was lord of horses and father of Pegasus, who sprang from the neck of Medusa.

✨ One star carves it, another lights it from behind, and all it asks for is a red filter and a long winter night.🙂🌍

Or a summer one.🙃🌏

Thanks for reading and Clear Skies /@xipteras
#HorseheadNebula #FlameNebula

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🏆 Congrats to Carl Anderson! 🎉
Winner of the 15mm Plössl at 2026 Northern Nights Star Fest (Sept 9-14, 2026) held by the Minnesota Astronomical Society. 🌟
Tele Vue is a proud sponsor of 2026 NNSF and wishes Carl "happy observing!" 🔭✨
#televue #plossl #minnesota #astronomy

[Panagiotis Xipteras @xipteras]

“Sleeping Beauty” is how I call it, but there are official names for this region. #Messier16 #astrophoto
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🌌: @TeleVueOptics NP127is telescope, QSI 683 CCD camera, Astrodon 5nm h-alpha filter.

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🏆Congrats Aiken Ji💫
For the #AstroBin #IOTD on September 13, 2026:
Neptune's Cloud features near North Pole (Timelapse animation)
Taken with Celestron C9.25 SC XLT + Tele Vue 2x 1.25" Barlow + QHYCCD QHY5III678M + QHYCCD QHY5III715C cameras.
#TeleVue
https://t.co/A0kL6UvTwg

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🔭Congrats to Tammy Owens!💫
Winner of the 13 mm Nagler Type 6 eyepiece at 2026 Almost Heaven🌟Star🌟Party (Aug 10 – Aug 18, 2026) held by the Northern Virginia Astronomy Club. Tele Vue is proud sponsor of AHSP and wishes Tammy "happy observing". #televue #nagler #virginia

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🏆Congrats Pierre Gilet💫
For the #AstroBin #IOTD on September 16, 2026:
SATURN 2026 09 06
Taken with SW Stargate 450P Goto + Tele Vue 5x Powermate + Baader UV/IR Cut + Sherizhe eADC + Player One Saturn-C SQR camera.
#TeleVue
https://t.co/iw99HBwlBj

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🍾Congrats to Greg Anderson!🪐
Winner of the Tele Vue 25mm Plössl eyepiece door prize at the 2026 Idaho Star Party (Sept 11th-13th) just passed. Tele Vue is a proud sponsor of this star party hosted by the Boise Astronomical Society.

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🌞Jérôme Clauss' Total Eclipse Composite🌚
🔭12 August 2026 🗓️
Solar filtered (except at totality) Tele Vue-76 with 2.5x Powermate and Canon 60D. From Soria, Spain.
#flickr #totalsolareclipse https://t.co/WKpEmUG8H6