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Step By Step
Start with your scope in parked position, facing north with the finderscope aligned. Set the altitude to that of Polaris (+52 in the UK). Align on it (follow your mount's instruction manual). Mounts with built-in polarscopes can get an accurate polar
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Photograph comet C/2023 A3
This is the month when we may or may not see comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan–ATLAS, depending on whether it survives perihelion on 27 September, when it passes within 58.6 million kilometres of the Sun. Assuming it survives, it should become visible afte
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Dark Matter
According to the successful standard model of particle physics, everything in the material Universe – galaxies, stars, planets and people – consists of protons, neutrons and electrons. In addition, elusive neutrinos that hardly interact with other pa

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