Start Stargazing! In honor of International Dark Sky Week (Apr 15-21), we’re giving away 3 Stargazer’s Starter Kits
The Night Sky™ Planisphere
Designed to be Used!
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Unlike coffee-table planispheres, The Night Sky™ is printed with dark stars on a light background, for easy nighttime readability.
- The constellations are drawn simply, emphasizing the brighter stars which makes them easy to recognize and locate with the naked eye or entry level equipment.
- Coordinate grid lines are shown without being intrusive. Coordinates are shown because they can be useful for cross referencing with star atlases.
- A selection of deep sky objects for binocular viewing is included. It is important to point out to beginners that the best first telescope is a pair of binoculars. You may already have what it takes to start observing tonight!
- The Night Sky™ is larger than it looks! The map scale is larger than on similar-size planispheres because the whole sky does not have to be shown on a single map. Even the 5″ pocket version is large enough to be quite readable.
The Night Sky™ is widely recognized by the amateur astronomy and educational communities as the overall best planisphere on the market. It is printed with a blue ink that is specifically selected to work with the Night Reader Pro™’s red light for ease of viewing.
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Night Reader Pro™ Astronomer’s Flashlight
It can take up to 45 minutes for the human eye to completely adapt to darkness as a protein called Rhodopsin builds up in the rod cells. Once your night vision is adapted you might be surprised at how many more objects are visible, and how much better you can see details in faint objects. Unfortunately all it takes is a few seconds of the bright white light from a flashlight or a cell phone display to deplete your night vision and have you waiting around to adapt again! The longer wavelength red light produced by the Night Reader Pro™ is detected by the cone cells in your eye and does not deplete Rhodopsin in your rod cells. This allows you to read a chart or atlas and immediately return to viewing the sky. Your neighbors at a star party will also be appreciative of your use of the Night Reader Pro™
when setting up equipment and moving about in the dark.
The Night Reader Pro™ is a true Astronomer’s Flashlight. It features a 630nm red LED light source so it will never accidentally blast you with white light. The intensity of the light can be adjusted from a soft red glow perfect for reading a planisphere or atlas to a bright beam useful in setting up equipment and walking around a dark observing site. 
