{"id":345660,"date":"2026-03-24T17:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T17:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/345660\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T17:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T17:25:10","slug":"early-spring-sale-prices-on-skywatching-gear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/345660\/","title":{"rendered":"Early spring sale prices on skywatching gear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"92335dbc-343c-44c4-9e91-d6caa52ae11a\">Stargazing and astrophotography are ways to gain a closer and more in-depth relationship with the night sky and the wonderful targets that you can find in it. I love taking my <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/26021-best-binoculars.html\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/26021-best-binoculars.html\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/26021-best-binoculars.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">binoculars<\/a> out and gazing at the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/16830-full-moon-calendar.html\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/16830-full-moon-calendar.html\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/16830-full-moon-calendar.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">full moon<\/a> or trying to find <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/star-clusters\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/star-clusters\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/star-clusters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">star clusters <\/a>on darker nights. I have tested out a range of binoculars, <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/best-cameras\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/best-cameras\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/best-cameras\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cameras <\/a>and <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/best-smart-telescopes\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/best-smart-telescopes\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/best-smart-telescopes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">smart telescopes<\/a>, focusing on the night sky and astrophotography performance. I know how expensive optics get, so any money off is nice to have when you are potentially spending thousands on new gear.<\/p>\n<p>I would recommend buying big-ticket items like big telescopes and advanced mirrorless cameras in major sales periods and with the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/target.georiot.com\/Proxy.ashx?tsid=72128&amp;GR_URL=https%3A%2F%2Famazon.com%2Fevents%2Fbigspringsale%3Ftag%3Dhawk-future-20%26ascsubtag%3Dspace-us-7223426940818276055-20\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/events\/bigspringsale\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" rel=\"sponsored noopener nofollow\" data-hl-processed=\"hawklinks\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\" data-placeholder-url=\"https:\/\/target.georiot.com\/Proxy.ashx?tsid=72128&amp;GR_URL=https%3A%2F%2Famazon.com%2Fevents%2Fbigspringsale%3Ftag%3Dhawk-future-20%26ascsubtag%3Dhawk-custom-tracking-20\" data-merchant-name=\"Amazon US\" data-merchant-id=\"1471\" data-merchant-network=\"Amazonus\" data-merchant-url=\"amazon.com\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\">Amazon spring sale<\/a> starting soon, we are expecting savings across these areas. Ahead of the start date on March 25, there are already some cheap deals active on some of our favorite picks for the world of night sky observation.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"elk-collectionwidget-f62b218e4bf83c2c592f72ca51fbaaca\"\/><a id=\"elk-seasonal\" class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"newsletter-form__strapline\">Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stargazing and astrophotography are ways to gain a closer and more in-depth relationship with the night sky and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-345660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}