Solar Image with Coronado PST and Canon SLR

Posted on: September 1, 2011 /
Categories: The Sun

I decided to have a look at the Sun today whilst it was out for a change and not cloudy. The weather this summer in 2011 in the UK has been terrible cloudy by day and cloudy by night. I began by putting my standard Coronado PST on my Manfrotto tripod and put in my

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Cosmic Challenge Book Review

Posted on: August 31, 2011 /
Categories: Astronomy Books

Cosmic Challenge contains nearly 500 pages and lists over 500 star targets for you to find. The book is aimed at both beginners and advanced astronomers alike, as the book contains a mix of Solar System and deep-sky targets to hunt for. The first 25 pages of the book tell us about our own eyes

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Skywatcher New Quattro Telescopes

Posted on: August 22, 2011 /
Categories: Astronomy News

There seems to be an array of new Skywatcher telescopes coming out soon. They range from the Quattro f4 Newtonian telescopes which are coming out both in Steel and Carbon Fibre. Why offer both, it just adds more confusion, as I can’t make up my mind whether to buy a Carbon Fibre version or the

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Patrick Moore Data Book of Astronomy Book Review

Posted on: August 1, 2011 /
Categories: Astronomy Books

This is a very heavy and solid book which includes an enormous amount of detail within its 575 pages. This is the latest edition of Patrick Moore’s book and it’s the first time I have seen an astronomical  book of this type containing so much data. The data collected in this book is very much

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Coronado PST Images

Posted on: July 16, 2011 /
Categories: The Sun

Well I went out and purchased a Coronado PST from ScopesNSkies the other week and was itching to try it out, but it seems since I have bought it, it’s now cloudy every day – typical! I did get to put it on my NEQ6 mount and do some imaging one Sunday morning though. I

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How To Stop Maxim DL cycling through filters

Posted on: May 24, 2011 /
Categories: How To

One of the main problems I found with Maxim DL when setting up the Autosequences was that if I set it up to do LRGB imaging and repeated each filter by say 20 times, instead of Maxim doing 20 frames in Red, then moving onto the Green filter to do 20 frames, it would do

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Moon Images with 5x Powermate

Posted on: May 12, 2011 /
Categories: The Moon

I decided to try and push my Skywatcher ED80 Pro to it’s limit on the moon. I am really impressed with my Skywatcher ED80 Pro telescope, as it gives me some nice widefield views, and I also use a Williams Optics version 3 flattener 0.8 which gives me even more view. The Skywatcher gives me

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Second Hand Astronomy Equipment

Posted on: May 3, 2011 /
Categories: Astronomy Equipment

I’m sure this is a highly emotive subject. But this is the question should you buy 2nd hand astronomy equipment? I myself have bought and sold lots of astronomy equipment, either through AstroBuySell, Stargazers Lounge or eBay. But there seems to be so much astronomy equipment constantly on the second hand market, I wonder how

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How To Clean the Meade Autostar Handset

Posted on: April 28, 2011 /
Categories: How To

For ages my Meade Handset on my LX200 GPS telescope has been very unresponsive to key presses. I always find myself having to hammer the keys in order to get the handset to register the key press. But I did not want to buy a new Meade handset as they are so expensive, so I

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