Top 20 Astronomy Tips

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Our top astronomy tips to help you get the best from your telescope and enhance your enjoyment of the night sky. For purchase links and index scroll down. • You can go straight to the topic that interests you on the timecode index below, and you can explore any of the tips in more detail in a back catalogue of videos on our channel. • RED flashlight or torch: Beware, most are vastly too bright for astronomy. Our favourite red torch, (branded Celestron or SkyWatcher) has switchable red and white light LEDs and has adjustable brightness: • To purchase on Amazon.com • Red and white LED flashlight. https://amzn.to/3sRKSaD • Or https://amzn.to/3f5Xarb • To purchase on Amazon.co.uk • Red and white LED torch. https://amzn.to/39ffNFS • For a Moon or neutral density filter, ideal for telescopes over 100mm aperture, the Celestron and SvBony brands fit all 1.25 eyepeieces, and both have good quality glass filters: • To purchase on Amazon.com • Celestron. https://amzn.to/3ocRsEZ • SvBony. https://amzn.to/2M2Bbpg • To purchase on Amazon.co.uk • Celestron. https://amzn.to/3sSV2rr • SvBony. https://amzn.to/3sVxoL2 • For the Swiss army knife of filters, a good quality 80A blue filter, ideal for telescopes over 100mm aperture (for over 100mm see 82A filter below): • To purchase on Amazon.com • 80A blue filter. https://amzn.to/2Y4y7va • To purchase on Amazon.co.uk • 80A blue filter. https://amzn.to/2MlGjV2 • For telescopes under 100mm aperture an 82A blue would be better as it's a little less dense: • To purchase on Amazon.com • 82A blue filter. https://amzn.to/2MftYlq • To purchase on Amazon.co.uk • 82A blue filter. https://amzn.to/2Y6UEYj • For an observing log (an old page per day diary works well - and just date pages as you go) but if you'd prefer something new and bound, we've found a few here: • To purchase on Amazon.com • https://amzn.to/2YiIE67 • To purchase on Amazon.co.uk • https://amzn.to/3omXeUL • Disclosures: All opinions are our own. If you click on one of the product links above and choose to make a purchase, our channel will receive a commission at no additional cost to you. As an Amazon Associate/Affiliate, we earn a small commission from qualifying purchases. • 00:00 Hello • 00:39 Love the dark • 01:02 Get a red torch - see purchase links below • 01:33 Dark-adapted vision • 01:46 Smartphones? • 02:18 Swedish Chef dress code • 02:30 Setting up your telescope • 03:09 Take the whole cap off • 03:30 Setting up tripods • 04:08 Optimising tripods • 04:21 Use both eyes (a Cyclops can skip this) • 04:41 Toffee apple syndrome • 05:28 Temperature acclimatisation • 06:05 Observing the Sun safely • 07:46 Collimation • 08:10 Improve focussing • 09:28 Make a focus mask • 11:10 The safest solar finder • 12:11 Moon filter: less in more - see purchase links below • 12:31 The Blue #80A - the Swiss Army knife of filters! See purchase links below • 12:58 Hacks for using filters • 13.27 Make deep-sky fuzzies pop • 14:02 Eyepiece tray upgrade • 14:31 Improve your views of the Sun • 15:11 Things to do with card when you're board • 15:49 Rock your scope! • 16:24 Averted vision technique • 17:00 Keep an observing log • Warning: Making telescope accessories out of cardboard could seriously damage other peoples wealth (Do they mean me? RJD). • • A short note on the topic of numerical inexactitudes. • Before some of you start thrashing your keyboards to shrapnel - yes, we know there are over 30 tips not just the 20 of the title! But we thought 20 sounded so much friendlier than 34! 20 is such a flouncy-bouncy sort of number, so much more rounded, less angular and awkward than 34. And we were worried you might not be able to stomach the idea of 34 astronomy tips in one sitting! But this means we gave you 70% more than you were expecting to get in the 18-minute video! Wow, this means you got two astronomy tips per minute -- that's got to be some sort of YouTube record! • Clear skies, • Robert • Presented by Robert J Dalby FRAS • Produced by DB Video Services for Astronomy and Nature TV

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