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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

Many of us remember our first telescope purchase. Often it was part of a set and came with basic accessories, including a couple of eyepieces, one low power and one higher. These are great in the earl

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Rik Henderson is ready to embrace an augmented future and is thrilled that he doesn’t have to look like a ‘glass-hole’ to do so

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1. NGC 6940 10x 50 Let’s start the tour with open cluster NGC 6940, which deserves to be far better known. To find it, use the chart to identify mag. +4.2 52 Cygni and pan 3.5° to the southwest to an