‘For astrophotography Les Granges is the place to be’ Award winning astrophotographer Frans Kroon

The featured image of spiral galaxy M101, about 27 million lightyears away, was guest Jayne McClelland’s first ever astrophoto, taken with Olly’s help here in our observatory.  It was selected for publication by the French journal Astronomie.

Les Granges images have also appeared in The Guardian, Astronomy Now (including Images of the Month and Images of the Year),  BBC Sky at Night, Practical Astronomer,  Starlight, the SPA journal and the Dutch astrophoto bulletin.

BEGINNERS: the first steps in imaging are the hardest. We will guide you through them and provide plenty of daytime help if you would like it.

EXPERTS: our equipment includes 20 inch Dobsonian, Takahashi FSQ85 astrograph, TeleVue Genesis f5 quadruplet, Meade 10inch SCT, Meade 127mm triplet apo refractor, two Atik16ic autoguiders, two EQ6 Synscan Pro mounts and two Atik ccd cameras – a large format mono 4000 and a mono 16HR.

There are three roll-off observatories and four ‘guest telescope’ terraces awaiting your own equipment.

Please contact Olly for an update and further details.

FREE IMAGING COURSES: If you are thinking of moving into imaging it would be a great idea to try our equipment before you decide what to go for. We can cover equipment choice, autoguiding, image aquisition, stacking, colour combining and a wide range of useful Photoshop techniques.
All of this is entirely free to guests.

Thanks to Ian King Imaging (www.iankingimaging.com) for supplying the equipment and for providing technical support.

Olly’s own astro images appear on Flickr