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Expert astronomy: watch the Moon occult Venus

18 June 2020

The Moon occults Venus on the morning of Friday 19 June in an exciting and quite rare event, which can be observed across the whole of the UK through a pair of binoculars or a small telescope.
Here’s your chance to spot Mercury, as it cosies up to Venus this weekend

21 May 2020
See Comet 2020 F8 (SWAN) gracing UK skies tonight!

19 May 2020

SharpStar D 150mm f/2.8 HNT: An imaging telescope with sharp vision

27 May 2020

Until comparatively recently, your best tool for capturing wide-angle vistas of extended deep-sky objects with a full-frame DSLR or CCD/CMOS camera was a fast prime lens from one of the big-name players in photography. Now you can attain these swift imaging speeds with hyperbolic Newtonians, such as the SharpStar 15028HNT.
TS-Optics Photoline 60mm, f/6 FPL53 apochromatic refractor

3 April 2020
Sky-Watcher’s Sun-seeker

28 July 2019

A vast stellar nursery, a familiar target for amateurs, reveals its brilliant majesty

29 June 2020

A favourite target for amateur astronomers, M17, also known as the Omega, or Swan, Nebula, comes to life in a dramatic ESO image capturing the full extent of the enormous star-forming region.
Hubble camera captures stunning new views of stars gone ‘haywire’

20 June 2020
Dramatic view of Venus about to be swallowed up by the Moon

19 June 2020

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