Patrick Moore’s Observers Year 366 Nights of the Universe

Posted on: July 31, 2017 /
Categories: Astronomy Books

Patrick Moore’s Observers Year: 366 Nights of the Universe by Mike Inglis, 3rd Edition published by Springer The original text of Patrick Moore’s Observers Year: 366 Nights of the Universe 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

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Imaging and Image Processing with a High Frame Rate Camera

Posted on: June 22, 2017 /
Categories: Astronomy Talks

Mick and I talked at the Cambridge Astronomical Association about Webcam Imaging or really nowadays High Frame Rate Camera Imaging on Wednesday 21st June 2017. The talk covers a brief history of webcams and high frame rate cameras, it then covers setting up your camera and using camera filters as well as looking at Field

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Atlas of Great Comets Book Review

Posted on: April 25, 2017 /
Categories: Astronomy Books

Atlas of Great Comets by Ronald Stoyan, published by Cambridge University Press The Atlas of Great Comets is a hardcover book by Ronald Stoyan. It’s hard to imagine what a comet book will contain, whether it’s lots of images and details of where the comet is now and when it may be back. But this

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First Light and Beyond Astronomy Book Review

Posted on: January 27, 2017 /
Categories: Astronomy Books

First Light and Beyond by D A Jenkins – Making a success of astronomical observing. ‘First Light and Beyond’ is for the visual observers, it covers all aspects of how to get you equipped and prepared for the observing night ahead. A large section of the book is then given to the constellations and where

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Astro Imaging Projects Book Review

Posted on: January 3, 2017 /
Categories: Astronomy Books

Astro Imaging Projects for Amateur Astronomers – A Maker’s Guide by Jim Chung This book is part of The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy range of books from Springer. Astro Imaging Projects for Amateur Astronomers has a large range of astronomy projects that you can undertake. I find that as an amateur astronomer whatever you buy

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Astrofest vs International Astronomy Show (IAS)

Posted on: October 18, 2016 /
Categories: Astronomy News

We have visited AstroFest in London for a number of years, but this year we decided to visit the International Astronomy Show (IAS) near Coventry. The IAS celebrated its fifth year in 2016 so we had to see what the IAS was all about and if we are missing out. Should the IAS takeover from

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Canon 200mm 2.8 lens for widefield imaging

Posted on: September 21, 2016 /
Categories: Astronomy Equipment

I have been trying out widefield imaging with the Geoptik adaptor and my Atik 460 mono camera using a relatively cheap Canon 75-300mm zoom lens. I have found that you need to step down the focal length to a more reasonable f6 or f7 to get some nice round star shapes. But really you want

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Viewing and Imaging the Solar System Book Review

Posted on: September 16, 2016 /
Categories: Astronomy Books

Viewing and Imaging the Solar System from Jane Clark is an easy to read beginners guide to viewing and imaging the Solar system. It explains in some detail the principles of the telescopes and the in’s and out of star maps, which are best to use in the garden on a cold dark night and

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Lessons from the Masters Book Review

Posted on: August 10, 2016 /
Categories: Astronomy Books

Lessons from the Masters is an astrophotography book from Springer. Each chapter is written by different well known astrophotographers. It is good to have individual chapters, as it makes it nice to pick up the book and just read one chapter at a time. There really is something for everyone in this book, whether you

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Observer’s Guide to Star Clusters Book Review

Posted on: August 1, 2016 /
Categories: Astronomy Books

Observer’s Guide to Star Clusters by Mike Inglis This book is part of the Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series, and it is a book which is organised by constellation. This is actually a good way to organise a book as it allows you to locate the positions of important star clusters in the 88 constellations

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