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  • Svbony SV503 review: Is it the best beginners telescope?

    Svbony SV503 review: Is it the best beginners telescope?

    Everyone on Amazon who reviews Svbony’s 80mm ed refractor seems to love it. So I’m excited to try out the SV503 (thx Tyson) as it could be a a contender for the best beginners telescope for astrophotography. Rosette Nebula shot in just 2.5 hours with the SV503 and matching 0.8 reducer by a ZWO ASI2600mm…

  • What is the best beginners astrophography rig?

    What is the best beginners astrophography rig?

    Now this is a question for the noob and seasoned nerd alike because the best beginners astrophotography rig is basically a travel rig and its essential for old astrofarts like myself to have a great little travel rig… Travel rigs aren’t just for when you’re going somewhere nice and dark but have little room in…

  • Storm Barra Fells My Scopes!

    Storm Barra Fells My Scopes!

    Midnight Monday; after a brief spell of extreme astrophotography between the clouds at my folks place in Devon, I covered up my scopes and headed for bed. . Next morning I awoke to carnage. The storm had pushed both my travel rigs over, the impact dented my tak fs60, broke one of the tripods and…

  • BAD NEWS! But Good News! – Hubble’s Variable Nebula

    BAD NEWS! But Good News! – Hubble’s Variable Nebula

    The Bad News!… Hubble’s variable nebula isn’t kicking off at the moment! The AMAZINGLY Good News is that what BAT members managed to catch from October 10th to November 27th 2021 is stunning. The light ripples in the BAT’s animation are clearer than I managed with a 50cm remote scope from Chile (you can see…

  • NEW (OLD) SOLAR SCOPE

    NEW (OLD) SOLAR SCOPE

    This is my slightly bonkers solar setup! The scope is my war torn (fungus and dropped) vintage Televue NP101. At f/5.4 it’s too fast to work with a PST mod BUT the NP101 is a Petzval design and if you remove the back glass elements it becomes an F10 which is perfect… even if you…

  • THE BIG CHEAP SCOPE SHOOT OUT

    THE BIG CHEAP SCOPE SHOOT OUT

    In this video the biscuit tests out a whole flotilla of under £100 telescopes and discovers that one of them is head and shoulders above the rest. The result was a SUPRISE. I don’t want to give too much away but the old school nerds really did know what they were talking about. More details…

  • Testing out modded PST

    So I picked up a very biscuity cheap old coronado pst for £250 and have modded it and stuck it on the end of a 2nd hand £50 helios 90mm f10 refractor. I have to use my narrowband Ha filter and an extremely narrow band 0.15nm (i think) filter that I bought off ebay from…

  • Hubble’s Variable Nebula Active

    Well Done @MrCRazyPhysicist for spotting some signs of activity on Hubble’s variable Nebula. Small shadow passing bottom left. The nebula is still very low on the horizon but its rising. I’m hoping we will be able to shoot it all through the winter and create a movie better than the one I did last year.…