Starizona HyperStar 6 v4

Imaging at f/1.9 means your telescope gathers light 25 times faster than at its native f/10. This dramatically shortens exposure times, allowing you to capture faint details in seconds rather than minutes. It makes capturing high-quality images without autoguiding or an equatorial mount entirely feasible.

The HyperStar 6 includes an adapter with standard M42 male threads, designed for cameras that have 17.5 mm of back focus. This covers many popular one-shot-color and monochrome astronomy cameras. If your camera has different thread or spacing requirements, other adapters are available separately.

The HyperStar 6 is ideal for a target like M31. Its 4.1° field of view is wide enough to capture the entire galaxy, including its faint outer arms and satellite galaxies M32 and M110, in a single frame. The fast f/1.9 optics will reveal faint dust lanes and structure with very short sub-exposures.

Yes. The standard camera adapter that ships with the HyperStar 6 has threads to accept one 2-inch mounted filter. For those needing to switch between multiple filters during an imaging session, such as for LRGB or narrowband imaging, an optional Filter Slider is available as an upgrade.

Switching is straightforward. You simply unthread the HyperStar 6 assembly from the front of the C6 and reinstall the telescope's original secondary mirror. The process typically takes only a few minutes, allowing you to easily convert your telescope from a wide-field astrograph back to a high-magnification visual instrument.

Yes, like any high-performance optical system, the HyperStar 6 has adjustable collimation. Fine-tuning the collimation is essential for achieving the sharpest possible stars across the entire flat field, especially given the critical tolerances of an f/1.9 system. The adjustment is made using small screws on the HyperStar body.