With the publication by Bradt of her Tiffany Francis-Baker’s “The Dark Skies of Britain & Ireland; A Stargazer’s Guide,” she expands upon the astronomical elements she first touched upon in her 2019 book “Dark Skies,” and guides her readers into the delights of astronomy by leading through a tour of the best places to look up in wonder throughout the the scepter’d and emerald isles respectively.
As one who added the study of astronomy to my natural philosophy repertoire rather late in life, I found it a bit challenging to get the gist of just what I was looking at whenever I cast my eyes skyward (and if I’m honest, I very often still do). Not that there aren’t a number […]
Despite years with Leupold developing sports optics for bird watching and other terrestrial pursuits, prior to my taking over the product portfolio of binoculars and spotting scopes for Celestron, it never occurred to me that anyone would use binoculars in astronomy. Yet there they were; massive Porro prism models with enormous objective lenses and magnification levels far beyond what could be steadily held merely by hand.