Congratulations to Leigh Hassell who has won a store voucher! (Want to submit your image for a chance? Click here!) Name: Leigh Hassell Photoname: Orion and Running Man Nebulae Notes: Taken with a Williams Optics Z73, ZWO ASI294MC-P, Sky Watcher HEQ5 Mount, ZWO OAG with an ASI224MC guide-cam. Bintel Products used in this image: 

BETELGEUSE UPDATE (spoiler alert – it’s still there.) As you may have heard, Betelgeuse, the red giant which we know is towards the end of it’s stellar evolution and ready to go supernova, recently had an unprecedented dimming event. It’s normal periodic variation suddenly dropped off a cliff in a way we’d never seen before….

Space enthusiasts across Australia have been anticipating the announcement of Star Stuff III at Elements of Byron resort since organisers skipped the event in 2019. Major sponsor and telescope vendor Bintel shared the news and the incredible speaker list which caused a quick flurry of ticket sales from astronomy fans who have been waiting two…

Astronomy, like most hobbies, can quickly get very expensive depending on how far you go down the rabbit hole. If you fall into the trap of buying your way out of problems you may find your family or significant other staging an intervention to avoid losing all your assets because you wanted that shiny new…

   Braeden steps you through the key features that make the Evolution Nexstar series from Celestron such a popular telescope choice.  

A review by Simon Lewis Introduction ZWO have been synonymous with creating high quality, yet affordable cameras, since their entry into the astro imaging world in 2011. Since then ZWO have taken the market by storm with their renown red anodised CMOS cameras and there will not be many in astrophotography who either don’t own…

In the 1950s, a group of astrophysicists were walking to lunch discussing the possibility of life elsewhere in the universe apart from Earth. One of those physicists, Enrico Fermi then casually asked “But where is everybody then?” The basic idea is that given the vastness of observable space and time with which life should have…

If you answered Jupiter .. you’re *probably* correct but only because we’re nowhere near finding them all. However the current “king of the moons” appears to be Saturn right now. Recently using out increasingly more powerful arsenal of ground based telescopes, Saturn’s total moon count was increased to a whopping 82. Yeh, us backyard photographers…

A star party in wine country? Count us in! A few of us just spent the last weekend of September in the Hunter Valley with the Northern Sydney Astronomical Society. The party got underway beneath cloudy skies (which understandably isn’t the best for folks trying to stargaze), but it did give us an opportunity to…