What is a Nebulae? A nebula (from the Latin: “cloud” pl. nebulae or nebulæ, with ligature or nebulas) is an interstellar cloud of dust, hydrogen, helium and other ionized gases. Originally, nebula was a name for any extended astronomical object, including galaxies beyond the Milky Way. Nebulae are often star-forming regions formed from the gravitational [...]
There are many different types of telescopes available to you, so much so it can be quite confusing and difficult to choose where you should start, but before we look at the main ones, we shall look at how the main telescope types work. Once you have started with beginner telescopes and become used to [...]
13 Must See Stargazing Events for 2013 January 21st – Very close Moon/Jupiter Conjunction February 2nd – 23rd – Best View of Mercury March 10th 24th – Comet PANSTARRS at it’s best April 25th – Partial Lunar Eclipes May 9th – Annual Eclipse of the Sun (Ring of Fire) May 24th-30th – Dance of the [...]
Telescope Review – Star Ratings: Ease of Setup: Portability: Ease of Use: Value for Money: Features: Overall Rating: The Celestron FirstScope Telescope – IYA Edition is a wonderful keepsake for anyone interested in astronomy. This quality Dobsonian style telescope features a 76 mm aperture reflector optical tube emblazoned with all the names that made astronomy [...]
Telescope Review – Star Ratings: Ease of Setup: Portability: Ease of Use: Value for Money: Features: Overall Rating: An outstanding, 2-piece combo kit for the explorer in the family. The land and sky telescope is perfect for entry level surveying, with a 2x finderscope and 35x land eyepiece. The 19-piece 900x microscope kit contains assorted [...]
Telescope Review – Star Ratings: Ease of Setup: Portability: Ease of Use: Value for Money: Features: Overall Rating: This outstanding performance telescope bewilders many due to its almost unbelievable affordability, and it enables easy access straight into the field of astronomy. It is fantastic for beginners; but additionally provides sufficient power reserves to satisfy the [...]
Telescope Review – Star Ratings: Ease of Setup: Portability: Ease of Use: Value for Money: Features: Overall Rating: This instrument offers quite a bit to equally experienced and novice astronomers, and is definitely an attractive option whether you are outfitting for your very first foray or growing an ever growing collection of gear. The refractor [...]
Telescope Review – Star Ratings: Ease of Setup: Portability: Ease of Use: Value for Money: Features: Overall Rating: This excellent telescope is perfect for an introduction into the exploration of space. The Bresser 50/600 telescope in a wonderful blue colour, that includes tripod and crucial accessories. A little finder scope helps it to be no [...]
Telescope Review – Star Ratings: Ease of Setup: Portability: Ease of Use: Value for Money: Features: Overall Rating: Celestron PowerSeeker telescopes are really a wonderful way to open up the marvels of the Universe to the wannabe astronomer. The PowerSeeker franchise is formulated to provide the new telescope user the most perfect combination of high [...]
New for 2013!!! Advanced VX 8” EdgeHD: truly the ultimate entry-level astroimaging package. This package combines the groundbreaking new Advanced VX mount with Celestron’s best optics, the EdgeHD optical system. This setup offers the astroimager maximum versatility – allowing up to 3 different f-stop configurations. Users can attach a camera to the rear of the [...]
Telescope Review – Star Ratings: Ease of Setup: Portability: Ease of Use: Value for Money: Features: Overall Rating: Bushnell’s NorthStar 90mm Maksutov-Cassegrain compact telescope with Real Voice Output provides amateur astronomers breakthrough computer-derived location and tracking potential with straight-forward, button control. It comes with an cutting edge RVO (Real Voice Output) feature that allows for [...]
Telescope Review – Star Ratings: Ease of Setup: Portability: Ease of Use: Value for Money: Features: Overall Rating: The biggest aperture of the CPC GPS line, The Celestron CPC 1100 GPS Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope has among the best light collecting power and it has a limiting magnitude of almost 15. The CPC 1100 GPS takes extensive benefit [...]
Telescope Review – Star Ratings: Ease of Setup: Portability: Ease of Use: Value for Money: Features: Overall Rating: Showcasing top quality Schmidt-Cassegrain optics, the NexStar 5 SE is a great telescope for experiencing and photographing the marvels of space. Having a over-all weight of 28 lbs inclusive of the tripod, the super transportable 5 SE [...]
Telescope Review – Star Ratings: Ease of Setup: Portability: Ease of Use: Value for Money: Features: Overall Rating: The Nexstar 130 SLT telescope is an entry to mid-level computerised telescope which is the bigger variation of the extremely popular Nexstar 114 models. You will get a staggering 30% more light-gathering power than the 114 version. [...]
No Telescope is needed to see it! Tonight (Sunday 14th April) if the weather is clear enough you have a chance to catch a potentially wonderful sight. Jupiter will be near the moon Cuddling close to a thin crescent moon will be the planet Jupiter. About an hour after sunset and visible in the western [...]
Find the Stars and planets without using a starmap this April! For those who have never witnessed the planets or had problems locating stars you should give this a try. No star maps, you simply need to find the Moon. The best possible times to look are 25-30 minutes after sunset or whenever the Moon is [...]
The observatory, referred to as the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), offers to revolutionise numerous areas of astronomy because of its unmatched power. It is expected to be completed by 2023 at a cost in today’s money of 1.1billion euros. This eye on the sky uses a cutting edge five-mirror design to gather fifteen times [...]
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