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...
In last week's BINTEL newsletter (you can read it here), I mentioned the Optolong L-Quad Enhance filter. This is a broad band light pollution filter that cuts out a very narrow range light from street lights and lamps while letting...
30th Jan 2023 - Today, NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope released a set of stunning images of near and mid-infrared portraits of 19 face-on spiral galaxies. These show details in the structure in the spiral arms of these galaxies in...
Multiple nations and private space companies are racing to the Moon. 24th Jan 2024 - NASA's Peregrine Lunar lander launched a few weeks ago suffered a major failure and crashed landed back on Earth. Japan's SLIM lander successfully performed a...
