How to attach a Camcorder to a Telescope

After buying my Panasonic SD9 HD camcorder I was thinking if it could be used for astronomy. I wondered if I would have to take a trip to my local astronomy store to see if they had anything in stock to allow me to connect my camcorder to my LX200 telescope. In the same way

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Panasonic HD SD9 Camcorder Review

I have at last purchased a new digital high definition camcorder. I chose the Panasonic SD9 HD camcorder for it’s size, weight and functionality as well as price. I purchased it through Amazon and got a free 8GB SDHC card with it. Once it arrived I was amazed by the small size of it and

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My Solar Eclipse Photo on ITV Anglia News

My partial solar eclipse photo was also picked up by ITV Anglia News on the evening programme on 1st August 2008. Thanks to Anglia News for sending me the video, as I missed it on TV. My photo is the first image (Daniel Coe, Ely).

My Solar Eclipse Photo on Sky News

Sky News have also added my partial solar eclipse image to its website, I have taken a snapshot of the Sky News page below, click on the image to see it fullsize. If you want to see the image on Sky News, (and hopefully the link still works), click here.

My Solar Eclipse Photo on BBC Look East

After taking my couple of photos of the partial solar eclipse I sent them to BBC Look East, and one of the images was shown on the TV in the weather section of the program along with other peoples photos as well. Below is a video of the program, mine is the last photo in

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Partial Solar Eclipse in the UK, August 2008

I managed to get outside early enough to start taking some images today with my Canon DSLR and using a Meade f3.3 focal reducer and LX200 telescope.  I did begin trying to use a webcam to record the whole event, as I would have liked to have had a video of the whole event, but

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Spotting the International Space Station

It has been an evening ritual just lately to find out when the ISS is passing overhead (via the heavens-above website) and then rush out and spot it. It’s amazing actually how bright it is, and how lots of people have not thought it was some sort of UFO. After spotting it a couple of times,

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Make a Focal Reducer Case

I recently purchased a Hursch f6.6 focal reducer which just came in a cardboard case type box with a cleaning cloth. I also have a Meade f3.3 focal reducer but this came in a plastic bolt case. I put a wanted ad for a plastic focal reducer bolt case on astrobuysell and I also called

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Stars Dancing with Black Holes

Stars Dancing with Black Holes was the title of Marc Freitag’s talk at this months meeting of the Cambridge Astronomy Association. Marc began by explaining what actually is defined as a black hole; known to have a most extreme case of gravitation, where the mass is concentrated in one point and it is surrounded by

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Water Widespread on Mars

An article in Nature says that wet conditions probably persisted for a long time on the Red Planet. Researchers from NASA found evidence of vast lakes, flowing rivers, and deltas on early Mars, all of which were potential habitats for life. The data comes from the NASA spacecraft on Mars. But surely we all expected

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