Sharpstar Astrophotography

An affordable and flexible design for any astrophotographer or visual astronomer. The Askar 103APO allows for multiple use cases at an affordable price!

Have you every wanted to easily change your focal distance to meet your imaging needs? Now you can with the worlds first exchangable astrograph system. Easily swap between apertures, focal lengths, and reducers to suit...

This is an incredible widefield astrograph. Well worth a look if you want to get the Horsehead and Flame in the same field of view, or if you're out to image clusters of galaxies.

The Askar FRA400 is a fantastic astrograph, these are nice wide scopes that deliver nice flat images without a flattener. This size is super versatile and delivers amazing results.

This refractor uses premium glass and excellent optical design to deliver a high quality astrograph. These are incredibly fast and wide, it's sure to impress even the most discerning astrophotographer.

This one's a shop favorite. We have a soft spot for high quality, high value refractors. This 3" astrograph hits the sweet spot for wide field of view and portability. This is a great astrograph...

4" Refractors are probably the most versatile scope you can get and this is a great example. It's a fantastic scope for astrophotography, and it's pretty impressive visually as well.

The FRA series are Askar's fast, wide astrographs. These are beautifully executed refractors that will deliver nice flat images with a huge field of view. The 90mm is a great size and will give great...

Please note that edphII has been discontinued. EDPHIII is now available! Since the Sharpstar 61EDPH astrograph was launched, it has garnered a worldwide cult following. Not blinded by the accomplishment and applause, Sharpstar, humble and prudent,...

The generation III 61EDPH moves the series one more step towards perfection in the 270-360mm focal length. It's a great choice for anyone looking for a compact light weight package with uncompromised image quality.

The FMA230 can solely function as a lens to observe the ground scenery or stars in the sky, or as a telescope for direct-focus photography. You should just fine-tune the helical focuser to perfectly focus...

An affordable and flexible design for any astrophotographer or visual astronomer. The Askar 120APO allows for multiple use cases at an affordable price!

Sometimes there's no substitute for extra aperture. This 108mm refractor can gather a lot of light and will bring out extraordinary detail in the faintest deep sky objects. This is a great astrograph for any...

The Sharpstar 50EDPH is a high-quality, versatile portable small aperture astrograph.

As a large aperture refractor, Askar 185APO fills the market vacancy, continues the high quality and cost-effectiveness of APO series telescopes, and provides a new choice for astronomical amateurs.

Askar introduces the brand-new 80PHQ refractive astrograph. And it’s the second long-focal-ratio astrograph from the PHQ- family. The overall finish of 80PHQ is evenly painted. The ivory and flawless coating of the main tube feels...

We love refractors and this one is huge! 140mm of premium glass will bring out mind blowing detail in the faintest deep sky objects. This will take your astrophotography to the next level.

An affordable and flexible design for any astrophotographer or visual astronomer. The Askar 140APO allows for multiple use cases at an affordable price!

151PHQ is a long-focal-ratio, flatfield astrograph newly launched after 130PHQ and also the biggest refractor of Sharpstar products till now. Instead of buying extra flatteners, calculating the backfocus of the flattener, or making a tedious...

130PHQ is a long-focal-ratio, flatfield astrograph newly launched after 107PHQ. Instead of buying extra flatteners, calculating the backfocus of flattener or making tedious connection to match the distance, astrophotographers can simply equip it with any...

65PHQ is a flatfield astrograph newly launched after 80PHQ, 107PHQ, and 130PHQ. Instead of buying extra flatteners, calculating the back focus of the flattener, or making a tedious connection to match the correct distance, astrophotographers...

SCA260 is designed with an aspherical mirror which entails much more sophisticated research and development. The process of producing, manufacturing and testing is more complicated compared with that of an ordinary reflective mirror.

The launch of Sharpstar 15028HNT, a fast-focal-ratio hyperbolic Newtonian astrograph, fills up the existing service gap in domestic market. Compared with the conventional parabolic mirror, the process of producing, manufacturing and testing hyperbolic mirror is...