Are Cheap Smart Telescopes Any Good? My ultimate goal is to turn everyone into a nerd thereby making myself look comparatively less nerdy🤣 but for many nerds smart telescopes make astrophotography so easy that their users don t qualify as nerds. I don’t go along with this, I just want to take amazing pictures of the [ ]
In early February 2025 six planets line up over my London roof, the night is clear, the atmosphere is beautifully calm and the Beast, my giant 16-inch Newtonian telescope, is ready to pounce! Find out more about the ASTRO GEAR USED HERE As darkness falls Saturn is already very low on the horizon. Normally looking [ ]
Best Telescope for Christmas 2024 Your first telescope has to be able to capture the nerdmaking moment when you see Jupiter or Saturn floating in a vast sea of blackness and you realise for the first time that we on earth are floating in the vast sea of blackness too. That s what did it for [ ]
My New Widefield Travel Rig I’m excited about modern widefield travel rigs because they potentially have the power to reveal the Orion Spur – the mini spiral arm which we belong to – something that I’ve never seen, but I think in order to do that I’ll probably need to tweak my set up and [ ]
20% off Betty s limited edition print of the horsehead Time running neigh galloping out (sorry)! Hi folks, I’m back from an epic adventure on the volcanic island of La Palma where Betty took a brilliant pic of the Horsehead Nebula. Although I’m not releasing the video on YouTube just yet, I wanted to offer [ ]
My New Favourite mount: ZWO AM5 The best astrophotography mount on the market: powerful, portable and accurate. And I m not saying this due to some sponsorship deal – I don’t even own an AM5. My mate Andrew Abbott lent me his for my astro trip to the Canary Islands. ZWO AM5 is $2k in the [ ]
You can watch the basic section of this video for free on youtube and you will gain a good understanding of how to collimate a Newtonian telescope. This video is for serious amateurs astrophotographers who are willing to go the extra mile to achieve excellent collimation and sharper images.The full video is 40 minutes long [ ]
The video is jam packed with technical astro goodness as well as tear your hair out moments of inevitable biscuitiness. The mission is to build a telescope as sharp as Kitt Peak (again) only this time I have a neat trick and help from a guy who owns 3 CNC machines😍 Click on the vid [ ]