Starlight Instruments, Inc., manufacturer of the Original Dual Speed Telescope Focuser, is known world wide for making the finest and most reliable focusers available to the amateur astronomer today. Precision crafted for over 15 years, it’s Patented Advanced Crayford design, with the Original 10:1 Reduction Fine Focus assembly, gives you a buttery smooth feel and effortless focusing for achieving that perfect focus. All high load areas are precision ground hardened steel on hardened steel, that just won’t wear out and that is only one reason why we are now offering a Limited Lifetime Warranty. We feature a full range of options, accessories and dual speed micros for virtually every astronomical need. You may wish to become familiar with our products and focusers, by going to our Focuser Tutorial.
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New Customer Galleries
Join other delighted customers in submitting pictures of your Feather Touch equipment to the Equipment Gallery, or your astro shots to the Picture gallery.
View pictures from customers setups from all around the world.
New webpage coming soon! We are currently in the process of developing a whole new webpage to bring you more pictures of the wide variety of products we offer, technical information, more customer images and commentaries, and a shopping cart for your ordering convenience!
We are also pleased to announce that we are offering more payment options. We now accept PayPal and Visa, MasterCard and Discover credit cards. Of course checks and money orders are always welcomed! You are also welcomed to continue to purchase our products from one of the many dealers who represent our products worldwide. An extended list of dealers will be listed on our new webpage as well.
New Feather Touch in production!The long awaited 3” Feather Touch focuser is finally in production. Look for pictures, technical specifications and pricing on our webpage soon or please call or send us an email for further information now.
Werner, Brigitte & The Starlight Team
New! Limited Lifetime Warranty
Starlight Instruments has just released it's new Limited Lifetime Warranty, for more details and all the fine print read here.
The Motorized Feather Touch System
Starlight Instruments is pleased to announce new additions to the Feather Touch product line.
Based on innumerable requests from our customers, we are proud to announce the introduction of the long awaited motorized attachment, The Digital Feather Touch System.
More info available here
This adapter will allow the attachment of the Feather Touch Focuser to the Orion Sky QuestTM Dobsonian. If you have an XT series or plan on buying one of these user friendly scopes you may want to consider upgrading the focuser to our Feather TouchTM...
More info with pictures available here.
New Compression Ring End Cap for the 3545 focuser
In stock, ready to ship for $86.00 plus shipping. Fits all 3545 focusers and is easily interchanged. Click to view larger image.