by astrobiscuit | May 7, 2022 | Big Amateur Telescope, Uncategorized
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...
by astrobiscuit | Dec 29, 2021 | Uncategorized
Thurs 30th Dec (tomorrow!) at 9pm (3pm CST) our stella line up of Astro-Stars answer your questions LIVE on the astrobiscuit discord stage: https://discord.gg/mGfJS9SuKx Find out more about the astrobiscuit discord server here: https://www.astrobiscuit.com/discord...
by astrobiscuit | Dec 21, 2021 | Uncategorized
Did Andy from New Hampshire answer the astrobiscuit xmas competition question correctly and win himself 150 quid (in astro booty) or did something go horribly wrong?https://video.wixstatic.com/video/9429d3_b760c0c6a8544251ade249b66589e534/480p/mp4/file.mp4
by astrobiscuit | Dec 12, 2021 | Uncategorized
Chinese Rover took this picture a few days ago. It shows a strange monolith shaped object on the horizon. The Chinese space bods have named it “mystery hut” but what is it really?China’s Yutu-2 rover landed on the dark side of the moon in 2019. Its...
by astrobiscuit | Dec 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
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,...
by astrobiscuit | Nov 26, 2021 | Uncategorized
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...
