Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • BBC Sky at Night

    INTERACTIVE

    Aug 13, 2020 5 minutes

    Email us at inbox@skyatnightmagazine.com

    MESSAGE OF THE MONTH

    Catching Comet NEOWISE

    I have always found everything to do with astrophotography to be the ‘here be dragons’ part of amateur astronomy. I always read the articles in the magazine but never seemed to have the time to dive in and figure it out. I did finally learn all the settings on my camera last year for an aurora trip, but my long exposures still suffered from star trails. The review of the wind-up mini-tracker in the magazine a little while ago (the Omegon Mini Track LX2, October 2018 issue) – an ideal piece of equipment for someone like me, without batteries or laptops – encouraged me to get one. Then along came Comet NEOWISE and my initial photos had blurring even with

    You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

    More from BBC Sky at Night

    BBC Sky at Night3 min read
    Build A Parallax-measuring Tool
    Hold up a finger and look at it with just one eye, then switch to just the other and you'll see your finger appear to ‘jump’ from side to side. The further away the finger, the smaller the jump. This apparent shift of a nearby object against a distan
    BBC Sky at Night2 min read
    Charlotte Daniels Rounds Up The Latest Astronomical Accessories GEAR
    Price £449 • Supplier The Widescreen Centre www.widescreen-centre.co.uk This binocular viewing attachment is designed to connect to a 1.25-inch telescope focus barrel and provide comfortable binocular viewing from a traditional single eyepiece. It co
    BBC Sky at Night2 min read
    We've Misunderstood The Universe
    There’s something wrong with our understanding of the Universe and, as the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has just confirmed, it doesn’t seem to be an observational error. One of the biggest mysteries in cosmology is the ‘Hubble tension’, the puzz

    Related Books & Audiobooks