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MESSAGE OF THE MONTH
This month's top prize: two Philip's titles
The ‘Message of the Month’ writer will receive a bundle of two top titles courtesy of astronomy publisher Philip’s: Nigel Henbest’s Stargazing 2023 and Robin Scagell’s Guide to the Northern Constellations
Winner's details will be passed on to Octopus Publishing to fulfil the prize
One small step…
I bought my seven-year-old granddaughter a Celestron StarSense LT 70AZ telescope for Christmas and since then she and I have become more and more excited about our view of the night sky. We ordered a Svbony SV105 camera in March to capture some images of the night sky. Despite the fact that it was cloudy, the night after it arrived we still managed our first astrophotography of the Moon, captured untracked from the back garden.
We started processing with SharpCap, using itsprofile of Plato’s east rim’, page 78), that we learned of the existence of AutoStakkert! and RegiStax. Although not of the clarity of some of the images in your magazine, we thought it might still be of interest to show what can be done by first-time astrophotographers on a limited budget.