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Five Planets in One Night
In early February 2025 six planets line up over my London roof, the night is clear, the atmosphere is beautifully calm and the Beast, my giant 16-inch Newtonian telescope, is ready to pounce! Find out more about the ASTRO GEAR USED HERE As darkness falls Saturn is already very low on the horizon. Normally looking…
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
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…
Naked Astrophotography
This is not a new clique of naturist astrophotographers who enjoy parading around star parties in their birthday suit. Not that I am against taking your kit off for a good cause such as performing the ancient Hopi Indian rain dance backwards around your telescope to ward off the clouds. This is more about having…
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…
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…
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…
