Win a pair of Kite Image Stabilising binoculars worth $1999- Free Entry with your BINTEL Purchase

KOWA TSN-601 Angled 60MM Spotting Scope - Japanese made quality optics

Swarovski EL 8.5 x 42 Binoculars - In stock now at BINTEL

More Birding books land at BINTEL - Gifts for younger birdwatchers as well

New updates for the DWARF II Smart Telescope getting closer - stock arriving all the time!

Entries closing soon for the 2023 BINTEL Astrophotography Competition - open until the 15th of November

RIP Lunar Astronaut Ken Mattingly - bumped from the Apollo 13 mission, but later flew on Apollo 16

"Inner Space" news - chunks of a planetary collision possibly found inside the Earth

The Great Orion Nebula (M42) taken with a DWARF II Smart Telescope by David Ragnar Pedurand and posted to the DWARF Labs Facebook group

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 1.5k fellow astronomy and nature fanatics! 

Win a pair of Kite Image Stabilising binoculars worth $1999- Free Entry with your BINTEL Purchase

Purchase anything from BINTEL from a $19.50 Audubon Bird Call to a Planewave mount and telescope between the 1st and the 30th of November to go into the draw to win a pair of Kite 16x42 Stabilized Binoculars - worth $1999.

Full details on the giveaway can be found below. 

If you'd like to see how the image stabilizing features on these Kite 16x42 binoculars works, feel free to pop into BINTEL at any time.

Kite 16x42 Stabilizing Binoculars - $1999

It's amazing to see views in the distance that would often be hard to hold still with higher powered binoculars suddenly "lock on" and appear rock steady once the Kite's image stabilizing features are switched on. 

They're ideal for bird watchers, and especially handy when out on the water. 

KOWA TSN-601 Angled 60MM Spotting Scope - Japanese made quality optics

Versatile spotting scope for viewing on the go. 

There's another fine Kowa spotting scope (and matching eyepiece) in-stock now at BINTEL, the TSN-601.

This is a medium sized, 60mm diameter spotting scope with fully multi-coated optics, as well as a waterproof and dustproof main body. 

It's lightweight, and a perfect companion for travelling and viewing from remote locations.  All spotting scopes of around this size and larger should be mounted on a tripod for more stable views. If you have a sturdy photographic tripod this Kowa spotting scope will attach directly onto it, otherwise have a chat with BINTEL about your best tripod options. 

Swarovski EL 8.5 x 42 Binoculars - In stock now at BINTEL

Famous Swarovski EL binoculars available now. 

A large shipment of binoculars from one of Europe's leading optical companies, Swarovski, has arrived at BINTEL.

Swarovski binoculars of all sizes are a perfect combination of precision mechanics and optics, and this has made them one of the premium brands for those who simply want the best possible viewing experience.

For example, the Swarovski EL 8.5 X 42 is an ideal size for serious birdwatching. We have customers who've been using their Swarovski EL binoculars for decades. 

You can check out the BINTEL range of Swarovski here and if you'd like to see how Swarovski binoculars stack up against your current binoculars, pop into BINTEL and bring them in with you for a comparison. 

More Birding books land at BINTEL - Gifts for younger birdwatchers as well

New books have flown into BINTEL with more on the way for Christmas.

We're expanding our range of birding books leading into the Christmas season, and especially adding some for the keen young nature fans, such as SWOOP.

New updates for the DWARF II Smart Telescope getting closer - stock arriving all the time!

There's more DWARF II Smart Telescopes on the way

The DWARF II Smart Telescope includes everything you need to get going. (ok, maybe not the Moon globe!)

The new DWARF II major feature update mentioned in an edition of the BINTEL Newsletter a couple of weeks ago is getting closer. 

We'll let folks know when the open beta is announced, and when the full release happens. You can watch the DWARF Labs YouTube video covering the coming features here.

Plus, there's stock of the DWARF II Smart Telescope constantly arriving - check with BINTEL for the latest availability!

Entries closing soon for the 2023 BINTEL Astrophotography Competition- open until the 15th of November

It's getting closer - the BINTEL Astrophotographer competition is still open and entries close on the 15th of November. We've had some amazing submissions sent to us so far, with several folks telling us the competition has been a catalyst to learn more and hone their techniques. 

Even if you're just starting your astro imaging journey, enter the BINTEL competition. You might be producing better photos than you think.

RIP Lunar Astronaut Ken Mattingly - bumped from the Apollo 13 mission, but later flew on Apollo 16

Just as we were wrapping up this newsletter, we received the sad news of the passing of Apollo astronaut Ken Mattingly at the age of eighty-seven.

Astronaut Ken Mattingly in 1971

If you've seen the Apollo 13 movie, you might remember Ken Mattingly's character played by Gary Sinise who was dramatically bumped from the ill-fated Apollo 13 flight only a few days before lift-off. 

He did however, go on to fly to the Moon as the Command Module pilot of the successful Apollo 16 mission, making him just one of just twenty-four humans to have travelled there. (Twelve of these Lunar travellers also walked on the Moon.)

Ken or "TK" as he was known also flew on two Space Shuttle missions. There's now only a small handful of the original Apollo astronauts still alive. Read more via the link below.

"Inner Space" news - chunks of a planetary collision possibly found inside the Earth.

Are they the remains of the collision between the Earth and another young planet that also formed the Moon?

The protoplanet Theia, which was roughly the size of Mars, slammed into proto-Earth 4.5 billion years ago (artist’s impression). Credit: Hernán Cañellas

In major space science news, there might be an explanation for the two large, mysterious "blobs" of less dense material thousands of kilometres long that are found deep within the Earth.  

New research just released in Nature in the last few days shows how these anomalies might be in fact remnants of a smaller planet, Theia, which collided with the Earth and formed the Moon as part of the process. This has been suggested before, however as Robin Canup, a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado commented “But this paper is the first in my mind to really take that notion seriously.”

Read more about this fascinating discovery from the link below:  

Next week: Summer sky highlights!