Setting Circles – Good, Bad or Ugly?

Posted on: July 9, 2007 /
Categories: General

As a very amateur astronomer I find it hard to locate objects in the sky, it could be me or my Meade Bresser 130N, but anyway, I tried polar aligning the telescope last night to Polaris and set the latitude to about 52 degrees, then reset the declination to 90 degress, or on my scopes

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Ordered a Canon 400D SLR from Comet

Posted on: July 9, 2007 /
Categories: General

Now I must be really getting the astronomy bug, as just a few days after ordering a Philips SPC900 webcam, I have jumped in with both feet and ordered a Canon 400D SLR Digital Camera from Comet, which was a good price as they gave me £40 off by using a code – ‘SUMMER40’ if

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Ordered a Philips SPC900 Webcam from Amazon

Posted on: July 5, 2007 /
Categories: General

I finally went for it and ordered a Philips SPC900 webcam from Amazon, which is actually being sold through Pixmania, but the postage is less through Amazon than purchasing it direct with Pixmania – strange. The Philips SPC900 is costing me £46 delivered. Now after trying my Logitech Pro4000 webcam I can actually compare both

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As Seen on ScopesNSkies Web Site

Posted on: July 2, 2007 /
Categories: General

As I live close to the ScopesNSkies store, I popped down there the other day to purchase a webcam adaptor and a 4x ImageMate to use with my Logitech Pro 4000 webcam. I have now noticed on their website that I now have been caught on film and can actually be seen in the showroom

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Logitech Quickcam Pro 4000 & Astronomy

Posted on: June 20, 2007 /
Categories: How To

If you want to get into using a webcam for astronomy, then most people recommend the Philips SPC9000NC webcam, but luckily I already owned a webcam which I use for Skype, from Logitech called a Quickcam Pro 4000. I knew that webcam adaptors existed so that you can insert the end of the webcam straight

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Ursa Major, The Big Dipper, The Plough

Posted on: June 11, 2007 /
Categories: Constellations

On a clear night over my head in my garden I can clearly make out one of the major and probably most well known constellations, Ursa Major, one section of this is The Big Dipper or in the UK it’s also called The Plough. Seven of the brightest stars, which are located in Ursa Major

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Astrophysicists find coldest solitary brown dwarf

Posted on: June 7, 2007 /
Categories: Astronomy News

Astrophysicists have found a star-like object with a surface temperature just one tenth that of the Sun. The cold object is known as a brown dwarf: a “failed” star that never achieved the mass required to begin nuclear fusion reactions in its core. This one – called J0034-00 – is thought to have a surface

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Jupiter My First Sighting

Posted on: June 4, 2007 /
Categories: Planets

Due to the number of houses around my small garden it has been hard to find some of the planets which only rise a little over the horizon, as a lot of the time I just cannot see them. But on Friday 1st June I actually managed to get my first sighting of Jupiter. Using

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My First Saturn & YouTube Video

Posted on: June 1, 2007 /
Categories: Planets

Having failed to get any decent pictures of Saturn so far, I decided to try and take video of it instead. I ended up using my Nokia 6320 phone to take the video, which is not the best gadget to use for video admittedly, plus I was indoors, again not a good idea as I

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Full Moon in May

Posted on: May 30, 2007 /
Categories: The Moon

At last I managed to get outside last night, after what seems like weeks of constant rain and cloudy skies. I managed to take some more photos of the full moon, my first visible in my telescope. I was amazed at the sharpness and crispness of the view of the moon through my Meade Bresser

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