Welcome to The Home of

The Electric Telescope

Our passion is building things.
Be it a fully custom solution or one using off-the-shelf systems or some combination.

Our red illuminated keyboard received a Hot Products award for 2008 from Sky & Telescope Magazine.

We are a dealer for the full line of Adobe Photo Shop products, including CS3 and offer special pricing for schools and government organizations.
We can install and setup almost any brand of software you can think of.

But where we really shine is in special purpose PC computers.
For your observatory how about a Vibration free and silent PC with almost no rotating parts, just a slow fan for the CPU and the DVD Drive.

It is achieved using a Phantom 500 fanless power supply, special heat sinks and a Sandisk Solid State drive.


We can also make PC's with liquid cooling and remote radiators, that have almost a Zero Thermal footprint. That way you have no extra Thermal distortion caused by the PC.

We even have Ultra thin client PC's with no moving parts at all. They slave off of another PC and allow you to run programs on it- from as far away as you can string network cable.

Did you know that most Hard drives don't operate at high altitudes above 8000 feet. We have drives that can run at almost any altitude, short of outer space.

High altitude also adds to cooling problems. We have extra cooling options for every part of your computer and telescope.

Once you have captured your raw images, you need to do something with them.
We make graphics work stations that are designed for imagers, not gamers. We can supply as much horsepower as you need and the accessories that make your job easier, such as LaCie Color Accurate Monitors, Wacom graphics tablets, The Griffin PowerMate, and all sorts of other special items.

Storing your images.
We can install over 5 (five) Terabytes of storage into a desktop PC and using NAS (Network Attached Storage) architecture can give you almost unlimited storage and backup space.


We even consider the creature comports of observing and carry a large line of coffee and espresso makers from companies like Bunn-O-Matic and Delonghi.
Late nights observing and Caffeine were made for each other.

You want a popcorn machine or a microwave, we got talked in to carrying those when we went looking for a supplier for hair driers. Yes we got those too, but we use them for dew and heating our boots.


If you need to work in the field, we have powerful notebook computers including the Acer Ferrari models and the Panasonic Toughbooks.

Many extended power and battery options are available and enough accessories to make life in the field not just tolerable, but fun. How about a USB powered cup warmer?
And weather proof cases to pack it all up in.


Printing options are as numerous as the number of stars in the sky, so you will just have to ask.

And don't thing we forgot the Telescope and Cameras.
We carry Tele Vue and Orion Telescopes and accessories and can get almost any other brand.


As for camera's we have been selling digital camera's since the 1970's and are a Nikon and Canon Authorized dealer.


So if all you need are a bag of stainless steel washers or a complete observatory, we have those and everything in between.

So now you have heard our story.
When you are ready to talk, we are ready to listen.
So please give us a call.


Links:

Our Astronomical Equipment site
Our Computer site
Our phone number 1-800-336-9054
and our Email: FAR@Rifkin.com