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When was it? The peak of the Great Aurora of 2024 occurred around the 10th,  11th and 12th of May 2024 depending on where you were . Aurora, or lights in the parts of the Earth’s atmosphere which are usually...

Members of the BINTEL crew have been attending NEAF 2024 in the USA  –the world’s largest expo of telescopes and astronomy gear! – Here’s some of latest product news and releases Please note that all the products listed are from suppliers...

1st April 2024 - Australian amateur space scientists plan a launch later today to solve long-term observing problem for astronomers in the Southern Hemisphere.  We've heard from a number of unreliable sources that today is the launch of a new...

March 27th - 2024: A common question we get asked here at BINTEL is what's the furthest thing  I can see with my telescope along with a slightly less often asked - "what's the oldest thing I can see and...

Australian and New Zealand women have made invaluable contributions to  the field of Astronomy - here's just some of them. New Zealand raised and educated theoretical astrophysicist, Professor Beatrice Tinsley, published over 100 paper during her career which was sadly...

23rd Feb 2023: What we see in the night sky seem timeless and eternal - things change on the timescale of millions or billions or years. Even the rare, fleeting or transient events like supernova will often take hundreds of...

A quick and interesting look at some electronics that were hit by lightning via the BeaverLAB Darwin M1A Microscope. Today we were repairing a customer's large Celestron computerised telescope that was the unfortunate recipient of a lightning strike. It was...

Celestron have three different products to help setup, align and then maintain the position of your telescope and mount throughout the night. Here's what they do and what are the differences between them. First up - what mounts and telescopes...