Astrograph Telescopes

The Riccardi Large Astrograph, RiLA, is the first of its kind thanks to the review of Italian optical designer, Massimo Riccardi. 

The Riccardi Large Astrograph, RiLA, is the first of its kind thanks to the review of Italian optical designer, Massimo Riccardi. 

The Riccardi Large Astrograph, RiLA, is the first of its kind thanks to the review of Italian optical designer, Massimo Riccardi.

The Riccardi Large Astrograph, RiLA, is the first of its kind thanks to the review of Italian optical designer, Massimo Riccardi.

The Riccardi Large Astrograph, RiLA, is the first of its kind thanks to the review of Italian optical designer, Massimo Riccardi.

The Riccardi Large Astrograph, RiLA, is the first of its kind thanks to the review of Italian optical designer, Massimo Riccardi.

Officina Stellare has focused on simplifying the collimation between the Veloce astrograph's mirrors to resulting in a stable, efficient but easy to use system. Collimation is achieved on three points (the minimum required points to generate a single plane) that use special, great diameter preloaded bolts (one for each point). This results in a single hand use, simply turn the bolt left or right to move the mirror back and forth (no more complicated operations using push pull screws and locks) in a very intuitive way. Officina Stellare has made this one step easier! Finding the correct positions is a snap.

The Veloce RH series produced by Officina Stellare are the only instruments in the world designed personally by Dr. Riccardi, inventor of the Riccardi-Honders optical design.The Veloce Series of telescopes are theperfect instruments for those astroimagerswho are searching for a very large,corrected, field. Large nebulas or starsfield will be deeply reproduced withvery high resolution and full details.

Wrapping this together, the Officina Stellare Veloce Astrograph is simply a product that cannot be overlooked. Managing to incorporate the latest high quality optics with Riccardi-Honders optical designs to obtain accurate views along with the amazing computer software and high quality materials for precise and accurate results, it is quite remarkable the Veloce astograph is only 18 pounds!

All the mechanical parts for the the Veloce 300 OTA Astrograph are constructed with CNC computer assisted machines and from a whole aluminum blocks to guarantee the best possible precision. In addition, Officina Stellare has also provided carbon fiber components that are produced with strict specification and tolerances. Each section of this astrograph has been computer designed and simulated and optimized for the best structural performance, rigidity and lightness.

Officina Stellare is providing excellent care in constructing the rear holding cell of the Veloce 300 astrograph's primary mirror. The rear cell for the primary mirror is figured to have the best rigidity/weight ratio and for the fastest possible thermal stabilization between the environment and mirror. The convection and thermal irradiation are greatly improved with the use of three high quality axial fans in the back of the astrograph's cell.

Go after even the most elusive and faint deep-sky targets with the Orion 10" f/8.0 Ritchey-Chretien Astrograph. Featuring virtually coma-free optics for superb imaging performance, the Orion 10" f/8.0 Ritchey-Chretien Astrograph boasts a plethora of deluxe features

This affordable 10" astrograph is ideal for capturing stunning deep-sky astro-images.

Orion's 8” aperture deep-sky imaging specialist boasts features usually reserved for much pricier astrophotography telescopes. In fact, the Orion 8” f/3.9 Newtonian Astrograph’s powerful imaging performance easily exceeds what’s achievable with many premium apo refractors costing thousands of dollars more.

Designed to replace the Takahashi Baker-Ritchey Chretien BRC-250, the new Takahashi CCA-250P Tri-Focal Astrograph takes its place among the stars as the latest visual and astrophotogic instrument

"Check out imaging and collimation results and pictures below by New Mexico Skies Staff!"

This first addition to the new Epsilon Series introduces the newly designed ED corrector and fast speed of f/2.8. This fast field photo/visual astrograph is perfect for digital 35mm cameras and CCD cameras.

The Takahashi Epsilon-180ED (D=180mm, F/2.8), based on catadioptric telescope design (means association of lenses and mirrors) offers a fundamental innovation compared with Newton reflector or Schmidt astrograph.

Now introducing the NEW Takahashi FSQ106! The FSQ106ED telescope features longer backfocus of 178mm to accommodate most CCD systems