Astronomy Lasers

Whether you are conducting an outdoor lecture or just attending a star gazing party, a quality laser can be an extremely useful tool. Before lasers were available, the only way of pointing to a star or constellation was to describe its location verbally and point to it with your index finger. With the birth of high power lasers, you can now point directly to your favorite star virtually touching it. As lasers come in different colors and power outputs, many get confused when choosing a suitable astronomy lasers. This guide will go over these two characteristics and hopefully help you decide on which laser is suitable for you.

High power lasers come in a variety of colors such as red, blue, yellow and green. As astronomy lasers are used for star pointing, you want the brightest and most clearly visible beam possible. The human eyes actually favor the color green over the rest. A green laser will therefore appear much brighter than other visible lasers at comparable power levels.

Given you have two lasers, a 100mW green laser and a 100mW red laser , which one will be brighter? The green laser! In fact, the 100mW red laser is only as bright as a 10mW-15mW green laser. To see and compare the brightness of various laser models, check out our section on laser beam comparison.

The power output of a green laser determines the brightness and intensity of the laser beam. You will often times see astronomy lasers associated with 5mW green lasers. These are not suitable for astronomy. 5mW green laser have bright end spots, but the laser beam is only a faintly visible (even in complete darkness). In environments where ambient light is excessive, the laser beam is difficult to see.

For a quality astronomy lasers, choose a green laser with at least 15mW of power. SKYlasers offers green lasers from 15mW to 150mW and green portable lasers from 100mW - 500mW. As you increase in power output, the green laser beam will brighten and intensify. So how much power is enough? Check out our section on laser beam comparison.

SKYlasers is a well established company offering superior products since 1998. Our green astronomy lasers have been tested and reviewed by numerous astronomers worldwide. The editors at Universe Today had to say:

"Have you ever been blown away by a laser? I just was! The folks at SKYlasers sent us a 55 mW Green Laser to try out. I've only ever used very small lasers before for indoor presentations, so I was completely unprepared for the power of this laser. I literally felt like I could reach out and touch the Moon and stars!"

SKYlasers offers only the highest quality products backed by our first class customer service. You will not find another company that cares more about your needs than SKYlasers. In addition, all green lasers are equipped with our state of the art Infrared filters which increases the brightness of green lasers.

Caution: When pointing your astronomy laser into the sky, do NOT point at any flying airplanes or helicopters. Doing so is against the law and is considered a federal offense in some countries.