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Please note VAT @ 20% is now in operation on this website.
 

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NEWS: Web Site Changes.

Added 18th October 2010.
Updated: 3rd December 2010.

Firstly:

We are experiencing an incredible amount of orders from around the World and, as we have finite space within our factory, we have to increase throughput to try and accommodate these high levels of orders, particularly optics. We will be removing from our optics ranges several of the less popular items to allow us to dedicate more production time to the popular, high volume products. We have been as liberal as we can be in maintaining as many different optical sets as possible in our range.

Secondly:

As everyone in the UK knows, our VAT rate increases to 20% from the 4th January 2011. We have no way of knowing if this is a temporary or permanent measure. If it is temporary, the point at which it changes again, hopefully back to 17.5%, is an unknown fact, I doubt if the government know at this point.
The website is currently set for 17.5% but will change as and from 4th January 2011 to 20%.

So, in a move to make the web site less prone to amendments for VAT changes and, to allow customers outside the EU to know what the product prices are, we now have set prices to Ex-VAT. VAT will be added where appropriate but ignored for non EU members. The process of ignoring VAT for non EU members will be done, as now, when we receive the on line order.

Finally:

We have decided that we are going to rationalize our telescope ranges of Europa, SPX and Dobsonians to allow many more components used in these models to be common. CT, AG and ODK will not be affected in any way. We have spent a great deal of time looking at methods of doing this whilst still keep flexibility to satisfy as many customers as possible but, the rationalization process will remove several products, particularly the less popular, lower volume items.

To do this, we are introducing a range of optical tubes (VX RANGE) whose specifications can be easily be followed and upgraded where shown. The base level for all the range is as follows:

• 1/6PV Hilux coated optics
• Fan cooling on main mirror
• 9 Point Cell
• Tube end trim
• White aluminium tube
• Quality spider
• OC1 focuser
• 50mm finder scope
• Black Tube rings
• One eyepiece (only supplied if tube ordered with mount)

This specification applies to the basic optical tube to which you will have the ability to add a 10:1 precision adjuster to the focuser, upgrade the supplied 1/6PV optics to either 1/8or 1/10PV and, select, if required a mounting from our range, the price of which includes the correct counterweights and attachment plates for the optical tube. The optical tube, if required, can be purchased without any mounting.

The page displaying these options (VX Comparison Chart) on our web site will show all the tube apertures and, focal ratios applicable to that aperture. There will then be boxes which you can check to allow you to see what value your order would be if you decided to place it with the items checked. When you have tried a few possible selections on this page, you can then click the appropriate button to send you to the next stage where you can actually buy the combination of features, tube and mounting. To ensure no one can possibly order incorrectly the wrong aperture upgrade etc, the ‘Buy’ page will ask you to confirm exactly which features you wish to add to the selected tube, again giving you a running total of your order.

The procedure is simplicity itself and, it gives anyone the opportunity to compare prices, features and apertures directly to enable a fully informed choice of instrument to be made.

PLEASE NOTE: The above Changes are now in operation.

We hope these major transitions are without snags but, we feel there may be one or two anomalies which, with your help, we can rectify immediately.

This announcement has also been posted on the OOUK Newsgroup.

Barry and John - Orion Optics UK
 

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NEWS: Paramount ME Now Available!

Added 19 Feb. 2010. The fantastic Paramount ME Robotic Telescope System is now available from Orion Optics UK. We can offer this superb mount and accessorieds at VERY KEEN PRICES. We will be expanding our ME Page with facts and figures quite soon. Meantime - email us and secure one Now! Follow this link

 

UPDATE: AG Range Specification Diagrams available

Added 25 Jan 2010. You can now view Spot Diagrams and Vignetting Charts for our Range of AG Astrographs. Follow this link

Telescope Specification Comparison Chart: We have set up a comparison chart to easily compare the features of our popular telescopes this can be found on the Range Pages for: VX, CT, AG and ODK or see it here . . .


Added 04 Jan 2010. Another great image from Peter Shah with his OOUK AG8 Astrograph. This image of NGC 2237, 2238, 2239 and 2246 - The Rosette Nebula, was taken with 80 mins in h-alpha, 50 mins in sulpher II, and 30 mins in oxygen III. Although the Rosette nebula is not very bright - it is much too faint to see with the naked eye - it has a striking circular shape resembling a flower. The Rosette nebula is in the Perseus Arm of the Galaxy and has a young star cluster at its centre.
See it Here

NEWS: Orion Optics UK Celebrates 25 Years!

Added: 20 Nov 09. Orion Optics UK are celebrating 25 years in business. In the December 2009 issue of Astronomy Now Magazine, Company founder, Barry Pemberton tells the magazine how the last UK Telescope manufacturer has thrived and survived. View or download the PDF the article here . . .


NEWS: AG8 Astrograph hosts SkyCamZ on Liverpool Telescope

Added: 03 November 09. An Orion Optics UK AG8 Astrograph is helping with imaging science on the 2.0 metre Fully Robotic Liverpool Telescope at the Observatorio del Roque Los Muchachos on the Canary island of La Palma, Spain.

Mounted piggyback on the LT's secondary mirror top-end ring, SkyCamZ consists of a 1024x1024 pixel Andor ikon-M camera mounted on an Orion Optics AG8 8-inch newtonian refector.


As part of the commissioning tests, the opportunity was taken to image the LCROSS spacecraft, en-route to deliberately impact the Moon's south pole on October 9th to look for the presence of water.

Detailed information can be found at this link:
http://telescope.livjm.ac.uk/News

and further details about the SkyCamZ can be found here:
http://telescope.livjm.ac.uk/Info/TelInst/Inst/SkyCam/index.php

Orion Optics are delighted to have one of their astrographs associated with the Liverpool Telescope project and wish them continued success.

Photos courtesy of The Liverpool Telescope, Astrophysics Research Institute of Liverpool John Moores University in north west England.


 

NEW: Newtonian Collimator 1.25"

24 Sept 09. This Newtonian laser collimator has a long 1.25" barrel and a machined rim for proper alignment. CNC machined.
See it Here

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