2023
My new favourite mount: ZWO AM5
My New Favourite mount: ZWO AM5 The best astrophotography mount on the market: powerful, portable and accurate. And I’m not saying this due to some sponsorship deal – I don’t even own an AM5. My mate Andrew Abbott lent me his for my astro trip to the Canary Islands. ZWO AM5 is $2k in the…
What can you see through a $10k Telescope vid drops tomorrow (sat) at far too early AM!
The video is basically me looking through a giant C14 HD edge telescope
How to collimate a Newtonian telescope from basic to advanced level
You can watch the basic section of this video for free on youtube and you will gain a good understanding of how to collimate a Newtonian telescope. This video is for serious amateurs astrophotographers who are willing to go the extra mile to achieve excellent collimation and sharper images.The full video is 40 minutes long…
How long should my subs be? Camera settings for astrophotography
How to choose the best ISO/Gain and exposure length of your DSLR or astro camera for deep space astrophotography. An advanced tutorial.
Biscuit’s Latest Epic Astro Vid Premiers on Friday 9pm GMT
The video is jam packed with technical astro goodness as well as tear your hair out moments of inevitable biscuitiness. The mission is to build a telescope as sharp as Kitt Peak (again) only this time I have a neat trick and help from a guy who owns 3 CNC machines😍 Click on the vid…
The Sky-Watcher CQ350 Mount Review
Skywatcher’s new CQ350 astrophotography mount claims to allow you to image with a massive and I mean MASSIVE 35kg telescope for just £2.5k. Wow. A potential game changer. But can it really do it?
Orion in Iron (and other weird narrowband filters)
I’ve been experimenting with unusual narrowband filters. In this pic BLUE= iron and methylide emission lines (aka the G band) , Green = Mg and Orange= Sodium. I wasn’t sure what to expect but it turns out to be most interesting. A bit like an onion there seems to be layers. The green magnesium hangs…
