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  AstroHopper part 3 So yeah, I got a couple of hours at the eyepiece last night, and gave AstroHopper a run at finding some DSOs in various parts of the sky. I started off by aligning AH on Arcturus, mainly because it was so well placed for the purpose, then decided just manually push the scope round to M3 (by manually’ I mean that I hadn’t searched for M3 so there wasn’t a direction indicator, I just pushed the scope until M3 was centred on the screen). https://theastroguy.wordpress.com/2026/0...

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  Sinus iridium, montes Jura, Plato

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  Volumes 1 and 2 of the 5 cosmic fragments series are now available from #kobo: https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/search?query=5+cosmic+fragments+&fclanguages=en&ssid=6SrSzlbFXSVRkCYjiTfG7&sid=d53a64f0-44e9-4f76-9062-60eb4b9ef5ab

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  A decade in stargazing, available for preorder now on #kobo 🔭✨🌘🌌

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  The 5 Cosmic Fragments series – human or AI? Being hard at work on volume three of my sci-fi series, I'm becoming acutely aware of the explosion of the use of generative AI in both the mainstream publishing world (my day job), and indy/self publishing worlds. Dip into r/KDP or r/selfpublishing, for example, and you'll find that countless posts from people happily using/praising the use of AI in the development of their manuscripts, or refusing/disparaging its use. https://theas...

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  https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/apr/05/satellite-mirror-plans-could-disrupt-sleep-and-ecosystems-worldwide-scientists-say?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

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  Available now from Apple Books https://books.apple.com/gb/book/a-decade-in-stargazing/id6762062229

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  Giveaway day … https://theastroguy.wordpress.com/2026/04/16/giveaway-day/

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  Three promo codes for The song of Herzlte have been added: https://wp.me/p5KNFc-SP

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  Three Apple Books promo codes for A decade in stargazing have been added: https://theastroguy.wordpress.com/2026/04/16/giveaway-day/

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  Nice review of The WOW! List on Amazon ... 'Almost perfect ...' I'll take that as a win 🙂🙏🏻🔭✨ The WOW! List: 50 stunning Deep Space Objects for amateur stargazers (The Night Sky Enthusiasts Series) https://amzn.eu/d/0aaMAm5k

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  The twice yearly Awesome Astronomy Astrocamp is just the best 👍🏻

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  Quick sketch of a very busy part of the Moon

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  Absolutely loving this album right now: ttps://open.spotify.com/track/6y5PIJmwbPDpeQAi03BbNC?si=Do3r7lP7RTGbqMARJluNHw

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  https://open.spotify.com/track/6y5PIJmwbPDpeQAi03BbNC?si=0T74D5USRcqI0wsOqddz1w

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  Light pollution/sky quality monitoring with SeeStars? Lying in bed on a lazy Sunday morning, a thought came to me: given the ubiquity and popularity of SeeStars, the fact(?*) that they log location data, date and time, etc, would it be possible to log and collate sky quality data and how it changes over time ... We're all familiar with satellite trails in our images, so maybe the increasing frequency and sky brightness resulting from them could be monitored too. https://theastroguy.wor...

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  German and Spanish translations available now Thanks to the wonders of Amazon's Kindle Translate, German and Spanish language editions of The song of Herzlte are available now (Kindle only): Which is quite amazing, really. For some reason, the translation AI is having issues with The last act of human kindness, but I'm told it will be available soon. https://theastroguy.wordpress.com/2026/05/07/german-and-spanish-translations-available-now/

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  https://amzn.eu/d/0clHIs1q

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  https://amzn.eu/d/04UpMkKf

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  Quick flick thru of the new, second edition of Demystifying Visual Astronomy... Out now!

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  Idle Sunday binocular project… As my Helios 10*50s don't have any way of attaching nebula filters I thought I'd have a go at seeing if I could implement some kind of bodge... A spare pair of objective caps with a hole cut in the middle took care of holding the filters in place, and a pair of rubber washers, left over from another project, prevents the filters from scratching the lenses ... Quite pleased with the result. OIII on one side, UHC on the other. Can't wait to…...

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  #ebook editions of my #sciencefiction series are now available from #kobo #5cosmicfragments https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/series/5-cosmic-fragments

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  Murky seeing here in piddletrenthide...

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  Iota Cancri

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  for a limited time only, US readers can get this for just $1.99 #kindle countdown deal ... The Song of Herzlte: And other stories (5 COSMIC FRAGMENTS Book 2) https://www.amazon.com/Song-Herzlte-stories-COSMIC-FRAGMENTS-ebook/dp/B0GCSPNCT4?ref_=saga_dp_bnx_mbl_dp

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  Omega centauri 🤩

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  Open cluster NGC 2362, and Globular cluster NGC 1851

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  Globular cluster NGC 362