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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…
Choosing a Mount for astrophotography
Choosing a Mount For Astrophotography – which mount is right for me – best performing mounts – best budget mounts All a mount has to do is hold the telescope and camera perfectly still so that the camera and telescope can take long exposures of the really dim and distant galaxies and nebula. Sounds simple…
Best All Round Telescope
What is the Best All Round Telescope? The best all round telescope would zoom into the planets with ferocious detail and be fat enough to reveal the huge faint whispy deep space nebula and galaxies whilst being small enough to put on a tracking mount for astrophotography. I asked fellow nerds from all over the…
Deep Space Lucky Imaging
– theory – gear Lucky imaging gives us amateurs the possibility of shooting deep space targets at resolutions hitherto only seen in multi million dollar professional observatories. The basic premise behind lucky imaging is explained in the first five minutes of my video: 300 Amateurs take on NASA Benefits DRAWBACKS Lucky Imaging Theory The Enemy…
Smart Telescopes
Smart Telescopes Good or bad?… In February 2021 I got asked to review a fully automated telescope for CH5’s the gadget show. They gave me 20minutes to review Vaonis’s Stellina before the cameras started rolling 😂. Not long but as I went through the specs it dawned on me that if she does what she…
Ultimate Travel Rig
The Ultimate Travel Rig I bought my Tak FS60cb second hand and paired with a no longer produced and relatively cheap Borg x0.7 super reducer. New the Tak FS60cb with it’s dedicated reducer costs £1173. Probably the best travel scope out there but not budgety . If you swap the scope for the bargain Sky…
Your First Astrophotography Rig
Astrophotography isn’t about high magnification! Most folks assume you need a big powerful telescope for astrophotography. When you use a big telescope at high magnification keeping the scope “still” is tough but when you don’t zoom in much its a lot easier and a lot cheaper. “But what’s the point of not shooting at a high…
Incredible Budget Telescopes
Surprisingly Awesome Budget Telescopes Most folks start and end their journey into space with one of the top 15 best selling scopes on amazon. They all come in at under £100… some are pants, some are merely bad, none are good enough to give you that – wow – moment that turns you into a…
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 few seconds. Those ripples are moving at the speed…
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. My affiliate link (You won’t find a better price) Affiliate Link: $1159.00 from High Point Scientific: INTRO I think the…
