Guiding in Maxim DL with a Finderscope Guider

At last my guiding seems to be working, after using a finder guider for a couple of years with mixed results, I think I have it cracked. I originally used to expose my QHY5 camera on my Skywatcher finderscope every 2 seconds for guiding, and have aggressiveness setting of 4-5. I also used to use

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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

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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

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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.

Cambridge Photographic Star Atlas Book Review

The Cambridge Photographic Star Atlas by Axel Mellinger The Cambridge Photographic Star Atlas is a large coffee table sized book which contains double page spreads, one side is a star map and the other side is a matching real image of the night sky. The sky maps show double stars, variable stars, open clusters, galactic

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The Sun in Hydrogren Alpha with Coronado PST

This image of the Solar disc was taken on Saturday 6th July 2013. It was taken using a standard Coronado PST and an Imaging Source DMK21 AU618 Mono camera. I did use a Short ‘C’ mount adaptor in order to allow the PST to gain focus, without having to use a Barlow lens. As the

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Deep Sky Imaging with a DSLR Camera for Free Talk

Here is a copy of the presentation I did at the Cambridge Astronomy Association on the 26th June 2013 in PDF format. – Deep Sky Imaging with a DSLR for Free Talk (1.5mb)

Solar Imaging Talk at CAA June 2013

Below is the PDF version of the solar imaging with webcams talk I did at the Cambridge Astronomy Association on 19th June 2013. – Solar Imaging Talk (1.3mb)

Lunar Imaging Talk at CAA June 2013

Below is the PDF version of the lunar imaging with webcams talk I did at the Cambridge Astronomy Association on 19th June 2013. – Lunar Imaging Talk (850k)