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

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

Anton Matthews, Bristol, UK, 3 July 2025 Anton says: “Towards the end of an early morning session, I took one more look and spotted this prominence. I’d never seen, let alone imaged, one this far from

Exciting ways to get away from it all

First up is the mag. +11.9 planetary nebula IC 351, located 2.3° west and 0.8° south of Menkib (Xi (ξ) Persei). Despite its small apparent size – just 8 x 6 arcminutes – it’s visible through a small s

There’s a vast array of astronomy image-processing software on the market, often with high initial or monthly costs coupled with a steep learning curve. StarTools offers a full suite of easy-to-use fu