Orion Nebula and Horsehead Nebula

Posted on: February 14, 2016 /
Categories: Deep Sky Objects

Orion nebula and Horsehead nebula in Hydrogen Alpha. I used a Canon 75-300mm lens set to 100mm at about f6 attached to a cooled CCD camera via an Geoptik adaptor. This image was consists of 15 x 300 second exposures unbinned that were also unguided. The Orion nebula has always been tricky as it’s core

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Heart and Soul Nebula IC1805

Posted on: February 14, 2016 /
Categories: Deep Sky Objects

Heart and Soul Nebula IC1805 in Hydrogen Alpha. I used a Canon 75-300mm lens set at 100mm. The Canon lens is attached via a Geoptik adaptor to an Atik 460EX mono camera. This image consisted of 10 x 600 second exposures taken on a Skywatcher EQ8 mount. The images were unguided, but I did see

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The Moon by Eye, Binocular and Telescope

Posted on: January 31, 2016 /
Categories: Astronomy Talks

On Saturday I did another talk for the Cambridge Young Astronomers. This months topic was our nearest neighbour. I chose what you can see on the Moon by naked eye, binoculars and telescope. I started by looking at the main seas or Maria on the surface of the moon that you can see with the

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Patrick Moore Observers Year Book Review

Posted on: January 19, 2016 /
Categories: Astronomy Books

Patrick Moore’s Observer’s Year: 366 Nights of the Universe The original text of this book was written by Patrick Moore, and the majority of the text has not been touched but the data has been updated. This version of the book contains data from 2015 to 2020. There is a page for every day of

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Solar Sketching Book Review

Posted on: January 6, 2016 /
Categories: Astronomy Books

Solar Sketching is a comprehensive introduction into recording the Sun features by sketching. The introduction gives a detailed description into the basic equipment required including Filters, types of Telescopes and Mounts along with essential tips to help with equipment and techniques including the use of TiltingSun a free program to create templates from. Determining the

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Heart Nebula started

Posted on: December 21, 2015 /
Categories: Deep Sky Objects

I did manage to get out last night and start on the Heart Nebula, only about my 2nd imaging object this winter season. But it’s so big though I can’t fit it all on the chip with the 6MP Atik 460ex camera using my Altair Astro 80mm triplet refractor with a Televue x0.8 reducer. I

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Celestron Travel Scope Telescope

Posted on: November 15, 2015 /
Categories: Astronomy Gifts

Here we are discussing the 70mm aperture version of the scope which can handle 40x magnification. But there are two other versions of this scope. Celestron TravelScope 50mm Celestron TravelScope 60mm Celestron TravelScope 70mm The only real difference between the 3 different sizes is the actual aperture of the telescope. The bigger the aperture the

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LEGO City Space Port and Lego Space Shuttle 60080

Posted on: November 13, 2015 /
Categories: Astronomy Gifts

What a great Lego set this is for the astronomy and lego space fan. The full NASA space shuttle model in Lego. Only around 500 pieces, but it does look impressive when finished. I am sure this lego city space port set will be a big hit, plus remember Lego change their range every 18

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