Baader Planetarium

• Connection camera side to M68x1 female thread on the Port 1 of the Instrument Multi Port IMP85 (#2451300 , € 7950,-)
• Designed and manufactured in Germany
• Connection on telescope side: 120 x 7.5 mm dovetail
• Black anodized
• Optical length: 0.5 mm
• Inner and outer diameter: M68x1i / D120 x 7,5 mm

• Baader Classic Ortho 10mm 1¼" Eyepiece , apparent field of view 52°, incl. winged rubber eyecup
• Parfocal Eyepiece series with very high transmission
• This eyepiece delivers a pure-white image with outstanding sharpness and contrast
• True High-Transmission- (HT) and Multi-Coating (MC) on all glass-air-surfaces offer a brilliant image while showing almost no internal reflections
• Suitable as projection eyepiece for OPFA (Eyepiece Projection adapter)

• Dustcap with M54 male thread
• Robust cap made of black anodized metal
• Dustproof closure for your accessories of the Baader M54 System

• Winged straylight-shield/ eyeglassprotector: Excellent stray light shield against side illumination, fast fold down of winged shield
• For Hyperion Universal Zoom Mark IV and older models - fits diam. 43 to 44 mm, 1mm min., clear-cut!
• Material: high quality silicone - non-aging, no chemical softeners, non smelling, not getting brittle over time

• #2451553 300mm counterweight-shaft M14, for leveling counterweights Ø 16mm
• For fine adjustment of telescope systems and when changing from camera to eyepiece
• Incl. end screw
• available in 150mm and 300mm length

NEW VERSION: Steeldrive II motor focuser with Controller

Steeldrive I for Classic Steeltracks is not produced anymore. On this product page you can inform yourself about the Steeldrive I for classic Steeltrack focusers and download the corresponding software.

More details about Steeldrive II

• Using this device, you can check instantaneously the seeing value in arc seconds at your specific location
• Shows instant seeing value, light input and 1 minute moving average
• Separate sensor can be placed next to the entrance pupil of your instrument
• Runs on battery or USB

• Holds all all Zeiss devices - with 68mm thread (with 19mm optical height)
• Keeps all Vixen Optics - with 60mm thread on the focus tube (with 24mm optical height)
• Keeps all Astrophysics refractors with 2.7 "thread (with 13mm optical height)
• Keeps all Skywatcher- / Celestron refractors, all Synta optics - with 56mm thread on 2 "eyepiece holder (with 31mm optical height)

• Holder to attach the Steeldrive II Controller to a 3" Dovetail
• Suitable for all 3" (Losmandy standard) dovetail clamps
• The controller is inserted into the holder and can be quickly removed for manual operation.
• The holder helps to lay cables cleanly for remote setup

• Full field sharpness: The ultra-sharp 76° undistorted flat field is unsurpassed by any other modern wide field eyepiece. Also on-axis sharpness and contrast rivals our best, ever released planetary eyepieces, the Zeiss Abbe ZAO I & II.
• Long Eye Relief and optimized for bino-viewing:  ~ 20mm of eye relief provides that famous spacewalk feeling, incredibly impressive with bino and both eyes.
• Hard aluminium alloy with industrial quality UV-stabilized anodizing surrounds a set of 8 lenses with one ED- and two Lanthanum elements.
• 2" and 1¼" nosepiece: integrated into one eyepiece of 55mm max outer diameter, supports bino-viewing even for kids.
• Photo-Video Adaption: Like their Hyperion siblings, all Morpheus eyepieces make superb imaging projection optics with the M43 photo/video-thread
• The Morpheus 17.5 mm is the only eyepiece of the Morpheus series that is not parfocal to the rest of the series. It requires 2.5 mm infocus.>/li>

• Steeldrive II Controller without motor focuser unit
• Controls the temperature compensating Steeldrive II focusing motor for Baader Steeltrack® (Classic and Diamond) focusers and optionally many other focusers
• AUX port for precise temperature control e. g. of dew shield heaters, optical filters or instruments with a precision of +/-0.1 degree
• Intuitive handling: The back-illuminated hand control makes fast switching between normal speed, jogging and single step mode easy
• 12 V / 1A PWM power supply included
• Incl. 3m USB-cable to connect to a PC
• Incl. powerful SteelGo II Software (as download)
• Made in Germany: The housing is CNC-milled from Aluminium in our factory. The electronical boards are made by a German company according to our specifications
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• Telescopic connection for Baader FFC and telecentric systems
• Consisting of 9 components:
  • 1x   Baader Four-In-One adapter M68/T-2/M68 (#2458225, € 101,-)
  • 1x   Baader T-2 / 40 mm Extension Tube (T-2 part #25B) (#1508153, € 27,-)
  • 1x   Baader M68 Extension tube 80mm (#2458208, € 93,-)
  • 2x   Baader M68 Extension tube 40mm (#2458204, € 61,-)
  • 2x   Baader M68 Extension tube 10mm (#2458201, € 55,-)
  • 1x   Baader Ultrashort 2" eyepiece clamp (#2458196, € 90,-)
  • 1x   Baader 2" nosepiece to T-2 / M48 (T-2 part #16) (#2408150, € 40,-)

• Baader Wide-T-Ring to connect Leica, Sigma, Panasonic-L cameras on the Astro T-2 system
• All Baader Wide-T-rings have an S52 dovetail in addition to the inserted T-2 ring to use adapters to M48, M68 or the UFC filter changer
• Furthermore, the illumination of the camera chips improved significantly, mainly because of the larger clear aperture.
• On the camera side: Leica, Sigma, Panasonic L-Mount
• Telescope side: S52 dovetail clamp incl. S52/T-2 internal thread with 0.75mm pitch

• suitable for temperatures from -55°C up to +30°C
• excellent grease-quality for low temperature application as prevailant at polar-circle regions
• not suitable for permanent use at temperatures above 25°C

• Baader SLOAN-i' Bandpass Filter, suitable from f/15 to f/1.8
• SLOAN/SDSS (ugriz’) photometric filter with transmission according to SLOAN-specification
• Manufactured with most advanced ion beam coating technology / Daylight-Proof
• Reflex-Blocker™ hard coated and planeoptically polished – with sealed coating edges (Life-Coat™)
• Blackened edges all around, with filter-lead-side-indicator in the form of a telescope-sided black outer rim
• Equally suitable for modern CMOS cameras as well as for older CCD camera technologies

• Drillings for SolarSpectrum H-alpha Solar filters and SolarSpectrum Telecompressor
• 2" (50,8mm) inner thread on both sides
• 6mm optical height
• See description for drillings measurements

• BMP levelling flanges are used to adjust the unevenness of the foundation or the concrete pillar as well as other deviations of the substructure from the perfect north-south alignment. They adjust these imperfections as close as possible to the mount, very precisely and steady, without reducing the stability of the pillar
• Suitable as a pillar adapter flange to the {{block type="core/template" template="wordpress/product/shortcode-global.phtml" shortcode="[product sku=\"2451210\"]"}
• Consisting of two solid Steel, separated by six steel bars
• Top plate precision milled flat and threaded to fit the base plate.
• Overall height 108 mm

• Schmidt-Cassegrain telecompressor/reducer and flatfield-corrector
• For Schmidt-Cassegrain-telescopes with 2" eyepiece clamp or for direct connection to SC-thread through  Baader T Adapter (BTA) for SC and MAK Telescopes (T-2 part #21) (#2408160 , € 63,-) or Baader SC / HD Ultra Short T-Adaptor, 9mm optical length (#2958500B , € 51,-)
• Variable reducing factor 5,9 to 3,5
• Preconfigurated for use with T-2-thread of the Baader MaxBright® II Binoviewer with case (#2456460 , € 479,-) and for Mark V Großfeld (Giant)-Binocular (#2456410 , € 1425,-) with T-2 quick changer
• Can be used with T-2-eyepiece-clamps
• Baader T-2 / 7.5 mm Extension Tube (T-2 part #25C) (#1508155 , € 22,-) is included

• made of V2A stainless steel
• for axis diameter of 40 mm
• Diameter 185 x H 30 mm
• 6kg