AstroPioneer

This article will cover M10 and M12, two prominent globular clusters in Ophiuchus. The two globular clusters are not only bright, but also only three degrees apart, making them an excellent target on even a full moon night. The best time to view these clusters is during the summer months of May, June and July.

On my YouTube Channel I take a lot of astrophotography photos to show you what you can see in the nights sky, unfortunately though they are not always perfect and this is because the mount does not always track accurately and to get around this I have gone and got myself a guide scope. In this article, I would like to list three good reasons why a guide scope would be useful in astrophotography. The first and most obvious reason you would want to get a guide scope is obviously to guide and PHD2 a free open-source software makes and excellent job of this, especially when used with my Astroberry . If you would like to see an example of the PHD2 in action then please watch the episode below. In the episode below I show a side-by-side comparison of the M65 galaxy, comparing tracking and non-tracking images. Although the guided footage is clearly better than the unguided, I would like to point out that both captures have the same exposure and so on, it is just that guided footage i

In this article, I will cover how to find the Leo Triplet cluster of galaxies and what makes them interesting. There are many great galaxies in the night sky such as the Triangulum galaxy but with a cluster of galaxies you get much more to explore.

In this article I want to show you how to find M106 galaxy and what is great about it, since it comes from an interesting part of the night sky below Ursa Major and above the small Canes Venatici constellation. As there are five Messier galaxies and also a number of smaller galaxies in this region of the night sky.

This article is a review of the Optolong LRGB filters . In the beginning, I bought some basic filters to see if my filter wheel would work and how it would work, but later I upgraded to these Optolong filters to improve the photos I was taking.

In this article we are going to discuss how to find the Northern Pinwheel Galaxy, a beautiful galaxy but it also comes with many hidden surprises.

There are lots of scary YouTube videos claiming the end of the world could be caused by an astronomical event. But how likely is such an astronomical event to occur? So, let us examine the most common scenarios and order them by most likely to least likely to happen to see if the scary predictions are worth the hype. Number Five - Rogue Black Hole A rogue black hole or stellar black hole is a black hole formed by the gravitational collapse of a star. The black holes have masses ranging from about 5 to several tens of solar masses and a diameter of around 300 kilometres. What makes this type of black hole dangerous is that they can drift through space. These are not theoretical; a rogue black hole was located just 1000 light years away in the Telescopium constellation. If a stellar black hole managed to get into our solar system, it could dislodge objects in the Oort cloud sending them Earthwards in the form of comets. If it got within the orbit of Neptune, it would knock

When viewing deep-sky objects, most appear static within the timescales of human observers. However, there are exceptions, such as supernovas exploding in distant galaxies, eclipsing binaries and the expanding crab nebula.

In the wake of the media reporting that the Tau Herculids meteor shower could become a meteor storm, many people were disappointed. Some asked when the next meteor storm would occur. In this article, I will explain what a meteor storm is and when the next one is likely to occur.

Alex Larsen from Minnesota saw one hundred twenty meteors during the peak of the Tau Herculid shower on the night of the 30th to 31st of May.