Track meteors from your own home

Autumn, winter and spring are the best seasons to stargaze, says Neill Sanders, outreach astronomer at gostargazing.co.uk. “Most stargazing events are organised from the time clocks go back in October

Imagine this: you set up a small telescope in your back garden. On your phone’s screen, you tap on the Orion Nebula. Seconds later, the scope slews to it, focuses and begins revealing the colourful sw

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The quality of your astro images isn’t just down to your processing skills. Key is the relationship between your telescope’s optics, your camera’s imaging chip and your local atmospheric ‘seeing’ cond

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. In the case of digital photos, that’s especially true, because image files can contain far more than just the photo itself. You can embed all kinds of use

Look – up in the sky! It’s a search engine, it’s a chatbot, it’s a browser- it’s Perplexity Comet! And it promises to let you do anything, which is a bold claim. Even Superman has his limits. As a fan