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My old 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…
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?
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!
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
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
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…
