Are you going away on holiday or to some dark sky site? Are you taking your DSLR with you and you want to take wide field images of the night sky? Do you not feel like taking bulky or heavy equipment with you (or maybe don’t have space in your luggage)? Baader Planetarium’s NanoTracker ultra…
Astrophotography is one of the most popular activities in astronomy. To spend hours outside in the cold taking images and then later during the day (and in the warmth) processing all of your saved images to create a final masterpiece is a very rewarding experience. Apart from imaging deep sky objects, have you ever considered…
There is not to go before the Solar System’s innermost planet, Mercury, will cross the face of our Sun around lunchtime on Monday 11th November. Mercury’s transit will begin around 12:35h GMT. The time of greatest transit, that is when Mercury “is near the middle of Sun” is around 15:19hGMT, and the transit event ends…