Yearly Archives: 2022


It’s Back!

Almost 2 years ago I built the first batch of 100 Power*Star units, and except for 1 that I use myself and 1 that failed quality control, all of them were sold (about 85% of them to a wholesale customer). This is good, but I could have sold many more if I had been able to build them. Supply chain issues have made it impossible to source several key components. However, I was recently able to find enough parts to build 10 more units, and they are now available to my direct customers. The shortage of parts, and inflation made […]


Looking Back

Once again, it has been a ridiculously long time since I posted anything here, and I haven’t been doing much of anything directly related to astronomy or astrophotography, except my ongoing and time consuming work of manufacturing my products for astrophotography.  But I’ve been thinking about how I got here and decided to share some thoughts. My Power*Star design is, in several ways, the most sophisticated product that I can call my own design, and it was an amazing accomplishment to complete it with the short schedule and limited resources I had, but if you look at the amount of […]