Archive for : September, 2013

Lessons from the Masters Book

Just received a copy of the ‘Lessons from the Masters’ book by Springer today. I was looking forward to reading this book, and I have just read the Damian Peach chapter about imaging planets and the moon.

I shall be reading it cover to cover, as there is a lot of detailed content in the book, mainly about processing deep sky images in Photoshop. This is an area I definitely need to work on.

A previous book on astronomy Photoshop processing I worked all the way through was ‘Photoshop Astronomy’ by Scott Ireland. It will be fun finding out how these books differ.

Look out for a book review of ‘Lessons from the Masters’ soon.

Purchase your copy from Amazon now.

Maplin Telescopes

Maplin our favourite high street gadget and electronics retailer have just started to sell telescopes.

Maplin currently have a range of Danubia and Celestron reflector and refracting telescopes. The new range starts from £49 up to over £500 for the Danubia 200mm on an EQ5 mount.

They even have a nice looking brass pocket telescope as well for just over £50.

All the Maplin telescopes are available from Maplin and there is free delivery on all of them.

For more information visit the telescope page at Maplin: www.maplin.co.uk/c/gadgets-toys-and-hobbies/optical/telescopes?C=AffilWin19788

Get Your Face in Space

Fancy getting your face in space on the Big Space Balloon? If so, visit https://www.bigspaceballoon.co.uk/

SPA Convention 2013

Don’t forget to book your tickets for the Sir Patrick Moore lecture at the Free SPA Convention at the Cambridge Astronomy Association on 12th October 2013. Visit the SPA website for more details.