I started in the late '90s with a home-built Dobsonian and I've never stopped looking up. Everything on this site was taken from a garden in East Anglia — no dark-sky tours, just patience and the occasional lucky gap in the clouds. Each project has its own page with the equipment, the method and the honest results.
The astronomy projects
Solar Imaging
How I photograph the sun safely — the filters, the equipment, and what hydrogen alpha actually shows. Includes a full solar eclipse.
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Planetary Imaging
What planetary imaging really looks like from a small telescope — together with my best captures of Jupiter and its moons.
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Deep Sky Imaging
The hardest part of astrophotography, discussed honestly — what a home setup can really do to nebulae, galaxies and star fields.
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Meade LX200 Dew Heater Ring
Meade never made a dew heater ring for their SCT telescopes — so I built one. The parts, the wiring and the result.
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F-Type Size Scope
Fitting a large telescope into the back of a Jaguar F-Type — two hobbies that can be enjoyed on the same trip.
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