Urban heavily light-polluted skies are not the ideal for stargazing with a telescope. There are, however, things like the Moon, the planets and even the Sun that can be observed from a city (observing the Sun requires specially designed filters, otherwise serious injuries and permanent…
In 2017 began the crowdfunding campaign of the first automatic digital telescope on the market: the eVscope. Unistellar, the French startup at the origin of this project raised $2.2 million on Kickstarter and received the support from the SETI institute. Their idea was to design…
What follows is a mid/entry-level telescope-based astrophotography setup. It contains everything you will need to start shooting the skies. Below is how the Andromeda Galaxy would fit into your image using this setup (this image is heavily compressed, so details are lost). The TS Optics…
Capturing the planets and the Moon is the easiest way to begin in astrophotography and you don't need to live in a place without light pollution. Planetary astrophotography can be done even from a big city since the planets and the Moon are very bright…
Below, you will find a selection of the best telescopes for observing the Moon, the planets and the deep sky objects. Okay, best telescopes, that may be a subjective point of view since your preferences and mine may differ. But I tried to select one…
