Despite a global pandemic and recession over the last few years, Scope Nights still survives and the Milky Way is still spinning. Unfortunately app development was affected by the pandemic and my eyes and lungs took a battering… I’ve lost count of the times we’ve all caught Covid, with the latest variant taking 4 months […]
Milky Way photography is a blend of art and science, and image processing is difficult as cameras filter out the red light produced by hydrogen emissions. So we only capture a very limited amount of colour in the nebulae, and images need a lot of restoration to bring out faint colours and details hidden in […]
After much deliberation, and in an effort to do more stargazing and astrophotography instead of virtual stargazing on the iPad, I decided it was time to get a new telescope! Finding the right telescope is a tough task as they vary so much in both size, weight and quality and some are easier to setup than […]