Philip’s Moon Observers Guide Book Review

As you would expect the Moon Observer’s Guide (ISBN 0540084190) is a book all about our moon and a what a complete book it is. I think it must contain everything you ever need to know about the moon. Moon Observers Guide contains chapters on lunar geology, the moon in space, lunar observer’s equipment, moon

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Daytime Moon

Whilst out in the garden at lunchtime I was amazed to see the moon at around 2pm in the western sky today, not something I get to see often, so I had to go and get my tripod, remote and 300mm lens out and here is what I took. f/11, 1/500sec, 300mm, ISO200

The Complete Guide To Stargazing Book Review

The Complete Guide to Stargazing (0540089370) is an amazing astronomy book from Philips, which is more like an encyclopedia of astronomy, it’s certainly a coffee table kind of book which you could leave out and see lots of friends pick up and flick through. The Complete Guide to Stargazing is a very large full colour

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The Sky at Night – Jodrell Bank

The Sky at Night – October 2007 Episode “Jodrell Bank” 1st Showing: BBC4 7th October 2007 – 19:00 2nd Showing: BBC1 8th October 2007 – 00:25 3rd Showing: BBC4 8th October 2007 – 02:10 Online Showing: BBC iPlayer for 7 days “Jodrell Bank, Sir Patrick Moore celebrates the 50th Birthday of the raio telescope at

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Bresser Messier 130N Telescope Review

The Bresser Messier N130 or 130N is a 5” or as the name implies a 130mm aperture Newtonian Telescope with a focal length of 1000mm/100cm/1m. The Bresser Messier 130N was my first telescope purchase, and I was glad to know that it came complete with a number of eyepieces – 25mm, 15mm, 10mm and a

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Moon Images via Canon 75-300mm lens

Whilst out the with telescope I also got my first chance to try out my Canon 75-300mm USM lens attached to my Canon 400D on the moon. To try and show what is capable with the lens, I have included shots of the moon at various settings, also I used a tripod and remote control

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First Moon Pictures from LX200

I managed to get the scope out last night and it was a brilliantly clear night. Below are some images from last night of the moon which I took by just adding the DSLR camera to the back end of the scope. These images were taken using a moon filter attached to the camera, so

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Bought Aluminium Tool Boxes from Maplin

I took a trip to my local Maplin store today in order to purchase some new aluminium boxes so that I can put my new LX200 parts in them for storage, such as the power supply and hand controller. At the moment Maplin have an offer on two different tool boxes, one is at £14.99

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Second Night with LX200

Well tonight I managed to get a thiry minute gap in the clouds in order to get the scope out into the garden. I am still having problems getting the screw into the scope through the base, but as I had such a small window of time I did not power up the scope but

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First night with the LX200

Well after a rushed assembly tonight in my conservatory at around 8.30pm, I managed to get my LX200 turned on whilst I got familiar with the hand controls. After about 30mins I just had to get outside, as the sky was fairly cloudless, so out I went. The first thing that I had problems with

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