Society for Popular Astronomy

Hi everyone, I'm looking at getting back into astronomy and found myself a telescope but didn't come with any eyepieces or star diagonal etc. Is anyone having a clear out as I'm looking to buy some good quality accessories to get a good look at the planets and stars with the kids this coming winter ...

Oh dear, well not to worry
Thanks anyway

Hi Bob, yes please couple of photos would be great. My email is northster1@gmail.com
Thanks lee

Good morning, I've been looking at ads for a telescope and came across yours. Is it still available please?
Thanks lee

Hi again, long time since last post Just wanted some advice as to what is the best software and cables to guide my celestron cg8 on a heq5 mount.? I have a Phillips toucam modded which I hope to use to guide and a celestron 5mp neximager Just ordered an off axis guider from opticstar so I'm nearly t...

Watching the persieds last year from a very dark location in the chilterns (was working down there) and also seeing iss pass by, first time I ever saw the milky way that night, all with the unaided eye. Even got my workmates wooping and cheering for it was their first time observing anything as spec...

sorry dont know how to resize the image yet !!

hi all, with my telescope being repaired last weekend i tried my hand at deep space for the first time with a cheap second hand modded cannon d1000, and a tripod and old lens borrowd from my dad

Those photos are excellent, hope I can get something like them with my setup.
Did you use a Barlow lens

Thanks lee

Thanks Rachael
Can you put up a couple of your photos so I can see what to aspire to ?
Thanks lee

Thanks Brian, will be ordering a hand controller ext cable soon, Just waiting for my ota back from Stockport telescopes as I made a hash out of collimating :( The neximage5 capture software is called icap with registax for the processing As soon as I'm up and running il try to post my progress Thank...

Hi again, OK well i have just recieved a celestron neximage 5, i have a long usb cable to plug into my pc from the mounted ccd in my garden (no laptop, tablet man) whats the best way to track jupiter for example. I'm thinking a desktop program which i could use to recentre the target whist the ccd i...

Merry new year

Clear skies for 2013

When were these shots taken ?
Been miserable here in mcr for ages

Sulk sulk

Thanks again Brian
Just need clear skies now