Join the astrobiscuit discord server
We have a number of very wonderful and supersonically helpful nerds on my disocrd server. It’s a great place to nerd out and its completely free.
ask a nerd
click here to ask a nerd an astro question and there is a good chance you will get an immediate response.
What is the Best Value Telescope for Astrophotography?
I think that 8 inch Newtonians hit a massive astrophotography sweet spot. Proof of this are seen in the astrophotos of Lyaphine and other members of my discord server as well as tests that were done in Big Amateur Telescope last year.
Es Reid’s Top Telescope Picks
Es Reid designs optical systems. He's currently working on a very high powered and fancy microscope for an important company in Cambridge. On the side he bench tests commercial telescopes for First Light Optics and makes sure the telescopes they sell are up to...
OOOPS I got a C14😲
The Celestron 14" Edge HD Optical Tube costs £9k - GULP!My suggestion of donating a few of the kid’s less important organs to pay for a C14 fell on deaf ears so rather than buying one, I’m hiring one for a few months. On Monday I picked up a C14 from Alex Gill’s farm...
Shooting the ‘Blue’ Supermassive Black Hole in Andromeda
Andromeda’s monumentally powerful, light eating, time and space bending, supermassive black hole has created a weird formation in the galaxy’s nucleus… and we’re going to try and shoot it!
astro camera tutorial
Dear patrons as a special thank you for helping me to keep doing this thing that I'm doing I've made an exclusive patrons only astrophotography video tutorial. In this video I answer the question "how long should your subs be?" A simple question but answering it...
how to collimate a newtonian telescope
Hey folks, here is the patrons only video tutorial on how to collimate a newtonian. Its not quite finished - partly because I need a night of good seeing to really show off the biscuit method (I will need to reshoot the last scene) and partly because I've learnt that...
ASTRO OFFER: FREE TIME on iTelescope’s BIG SCOPES while the Moon Shines
Fellow nerds, while the moon shines itelescope is FREE! Time to dust off those narrowband filters 😁 here’s what my buddy, Mladen from iTelescope had to say…. Want to do narrowband imaging on 20" and 24" telescopes? iTelescope 'Full Moon Happy Hour' is in effect all...
JUST DROPPED! The Ultimate Travel Telescope Astrobiscuit video
What is the best portable telescope for astrophtography? To escape the UK's HORRENDOUS weather the biscuit man wants to put together the ultimate astrophotography travel rig; a telescope with a resolution of 2arcseconds which fits in a suitcase. If successful biscuit...
We bagged RIPPLES IN SPACE!
This is a 5 month timelapse of Hubble's variable nebula. Pretty astonishing innit! And a testament to the power of us AMATEURs when we band together. Well done BAT members. This makes me very proud. The video squeezes 5 months of the nebula's life into a...
The all new QHY533M: Review
Summary: All round great cooled astrophotography camera; super sensitive, supersonically low read noise, no amp glow, no dew problems and much cheaper than its bigger brother the QHY268 because it has a smaller 1” sensor. Affiliate Link: $1159.00 from High Point...
