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There appears to be a good chance of the Andromedids meteor shower having a strong outburst in 2023. The comet that started the Andromedids meteor shower was 3D/Biela. This comet was first discovered in 1772 and is the first comet that allowed us to identify the link between comets and meteors.

This article will cover a tour of my local observatory the famous Royal Observatory Greenwich, however while the observatory has a lot to do with clocks, navigation, latitude and longitude this tour will be focusing on the astronomical aspects of the observatory as that is what this blog is about. This was a professional observatory unlike the community observatory COSMOS observatory on the Isles of Scilly.

A question that comes up quite a lot and that is how to get the most out of your telescope I have come up with 10 tips that can help you get more from your telescope.

Learn about the M5 globular cluster, one of the most beautiful things in the night sky. Globular clusters are ancient clusters which were formed before the galaxy itself existed, lying within the milky way's halo, which surrounds the galaxy.

In this article I am going to a very special part of the UK, the Isles of Scilly. Back in 2017, when I visited the Isles of Scilly, I thought what an excellent place for astronomy the islands would be. Little did I know at the time that others were also thinking something similar.

I explain how to locate the Sunflower Galaxy in the Canes Venatici constellation, one of four spiral galaxies in the constellation. This galaxy is also known as NGC 5055 in the New General Catalogue.

Landscape photography of the night sky is the most straightforward type of astrophotography. In this article I am going to explain how to get started in it. In recent years, advances in mobile phone technology have made astrophotography increasingly accessible to the amateur.

In this article I would like to talk about one of the simplest forms of astrophotography but also one of the most beautiful, star trails.

In this article for the first time, I am chasing dark skies by doing astronomy in the wild, this allows you to see things that are not just possible to see from urban areas. So hopefully this article will inspire you to do the same. In today's world, seeing the night sky is increasingly difficult. Light pollution has been slowly getting worse reducing what we can see in the sky. In London where I am usually based the sky is orange and only the brightest stars are usually visible with the naked eye. So, I really need to go off the grid to find somewhere that is remote enough to be dark. In a country like the UK, where the cities and towns are quite close together, it will take quite some time to escape the light pollution. To do this I decided to go to the Dartmoor national park, in the south west of England. As far as Dartmoor is concerned, I decided to explore the northern section, as it would be dark since there are no other settlements nearby and the Exmoor national park is als...

In this article I am going to discuss the collimation of SCT's this is a worry for a lot of people, but in fact it is quite simple and even more important that an aligned finderscope or clean eyepieces .