Q&a with an astrophysicist

Your new telescope arrives and you plan to take it for a spin through the stars. But a smog of light sits low in the sky, washing away your views to distant galaxies – along with your astronomy dreams

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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

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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