Advanced VX Mount $1199 - special on Celestron's most popular hi-tech mount

Nikon specials continue - some suggestions for keen birdwatchers

BINTEL Cleaning Solution - we've brewed another batch!

Saxon 909 - "classic" 90mm refractor now $419

Can you pick the missing volume? - handful of "Annals of the Deep Sky Vol 10" in stock now

NEW BINTEL baseball hat - how to be astro cool for $19.95

Space News -
 The first of the 130,000 antennae of the world's largest radio telescope installed in WA

SpaceX Starship cleared for another launch from this week

The Flame Nebula (NGC 2024) and the Horsehead Nebula (NGC 2023) captured with a DWARF II Smart Telescope on the 29th of Feb by BINTEL's Jess G with tweaking in  PixInsight. 

To be featured, you can send us your Astro and Nature images here or post them the BINTEL Society Facebook Group where you can join more than 1.7k fellow astronomy and nature fanatics.

Advanced VX Mount now $1199 - special on Celestron's most popular hi-tech mount

Multi-purpose mount. Ideal for astrophotography and visual observing.

The Celestron Advanced VX computerised mount - now $1199

As part of our Easter specials, BINTEL have the Celestron Advanced VX mount on sale for $1199.00.

This is the most popular of Celestron's fully computerised telescope mounts. It's suited to both visual observing and astrophotography and accepts a wide range of telescopes up to a bit over 13kg. Attaching DSLR cameras and lenses lets it take on "star tracker" duties for wide field Milky Way imaging. 

BINTEL has lots of accessories for this Celestron mount that we take a deeper dive into with this article here. Well worth a read. 

Nikon specials continue - some suggestions for keen birdwatchers

BINTEL's Nikon Easter Sale rolls on

Over the last month, we've been busy helping new bird watchers especially with Nikon binoculars as well as upgrading those with more experience into new gear.  

Here another couple of binoculars from the Nikon range. 

These 7x35 binoculars are part of the Nikon Aculon range. 

Compact and great to hold in your hand, their smaller size and bright optics are ideal for birdwatching, especially when you need to travel with them. Affordable too - making them a good choice for when you're starting off in bird watching. Makes a great gift as well. 

We've touched on the Nikon Monarch M5 and M7 binoculars in the past. 

These are the latest version of the Nikon Monarch series that have been favourites of bird watchers and nature lovers for decades. The Nikon M7 especially have a wide field of view that's suited to spotting fast moving wildlife. 

Saxon 909 - "classic" 90mm refractor now $419

Simply lovely 90mm refractor and mount

BINTEL have just received another batch of Saxon 909 AZ3 Telescopes.

These are a 90mm refractor style telescope on a solid Alt-AZ mount with slow motion controls. (Meaning they go up and down and left and right.)  The larger, 90mm diameter lens collects around 65% more light than a 70mm telescope for brighter, clearer views. 

Great for viewing the Moon, rings around Saturn, moons of Jupiter, plus a vast number of deep-sky objects both in the Milky Way and even galaxies millions of light years away. 

We also know quite a few Saxon 909 AZ3 customers who have them perched on their balconies for water or distant scenery views.

BINTEL Cleaning Solution - we've cooked up another batch!

More of our custom cleaning solution on the shelves at BINTEL now.

If you've been a BINTEL customer for some time, you'll know that our custom cleaning solution has been used across Australia and New Zealand for cleaning telescope mirrors, eyepieces, binoculars and all sorts of optical surfaces. 

With optical cleaners, you don't need much but a small amount of a quality solution will properly clean optics making for viewing clearer and extend their life.  There's also a complete range of cleaning products on the BINTEL website here and we're also happy to chat about caring for your telescope or binoculars. 

Don from BINTEL taking a breather after finishing the most recent batch of our custom cleaning solution at our offsite facility. 

We also have a guide to cleaning coated optics on the link below.

Can you pick the missing volume? - handful of "Annals of the Deep Sky Vol 10" in stock now

Can you pick the missing volume? 😀

The "Annals of the Deep Sky" have been an extremely popular series of books over a number of years as each volume covers a particular region of the night sky, exploring in detail numerous nebulae, galaxies, clusters and more. 

There's probably nothing like them.

Pre-orders for the latest Volume 10 have now been sent to customers and we have a small number still for sale online or available in-store. 

NEW BINTEL baseball hat - how to be astro cool for $19.95

This season's latest fashion accessory.

New season BINTEL baseball caps are now in stock.

We're not saying the BINTEL baseball cap will automatically make you a cooler person and improve your social standing with fellow astronomers and nature lovers, but for $19.95 it's certainly worth giving it go.

Also mention you're a BINTEL Newsletter reader when you buy one online or in-store and we'll throw in a free BINTEL keyring as a bonus.

BINTEL Astronomy & Space News -

The first of the 130,000 antennae of the world's largest radio telescope installed in WA - The SKA is going to let us observe the distant past of the Universe

A project decades in the making is coming to fruition

The first antenna is installed in Western Australia.  Image via ABC News

The Square Kilometre Array telescope has been described as the largest science project on the planet with some 130,000 antennae planned for Western Australia to observe in low frequencies and another major site in South Africa where higher radio frequencies will be captured.

The first antenna was installed in Western Australia this week on Wajarri Yamaji country in the Murchison region. When finished, the vast SKA will cover some study the early Universe, look for answers about why there is large scale magnetism in the Cosmos and even look for signs of life via the "Cradle of Life" project.

Read more about the SKA via the link below. It's a project that will be in the news in the coming years.

SpaceX Starship to attempt another launch - Third time lucky or another *Kaboom* ??

Could be as early as Thursday 14th March (3.14 USA time for the math fans.)

SpaceX have indicated that there might be another launch of its massive Starship this week. This will be the third flight of the largest rocket ever designed and launched by humans. It's taller and heavier than the Saturn V that took the Apollo astronauts to the Moon. 

The first two flights of Starship ended up with the launch vehicles being destroyed although SpaceX have stated that valuable, real word engineering data was obtained. This mission is planned to splash down in the Indian Ocean if all goes to plan. More the link below. 

Coming soon - new Swarovski binoculars.

Sneak peek..... - more in the coming weeks