Simon Dodd Astrophotography

2019-03-25

Does a sunset count as astrophotography…? I’m not sure it quite does but sometimes you have to bend the rules and this is my website so I make the rules...

2019-03-18

Just to show I don’t only take deep sky images here is a nice timelapse I took of the fog rolling into the valley of Geneva & Annemasse in Switzerland...

2019-03-04

This is my first post about a specific target. It is one of the most photographed targets in the night sky due to it’s relative ease to make it look good...

2019-02-25

What is polar alignment and why is it so important? With a German Equatorial mount you need to make sure you are perfectly aligned to Polaris when you...

2019-02-18

So thats the basics of the kit I use… You can see it assembled in the previous blog post. So lets go through and see what I’ve got at the moment… Telescope...

2019-02-17

Hello and welcome to Simon Dodd Astrophotography. This is basically a place for me to share my images of the night sky. There will also be options to...

2017-01-25

I thought I would start by showing you my kit list, this is obviously somewhat fluid as I upgrade parts and get new toys to play with but for now this...

2016-05-19

As you may have guessed this is a bit of a ranting post so feel free to ignore it but if you do a lot of networking then this is directly aimed at you...

2016-04-25

I realised that since I rebuilt this website there is ZERO introduction from me on here so here goes! I am a self proclaimed geek (yeah thats a hell...

2016-04-25

WOW! Where did the time go? Seems like only yesterday I was planning out the year ahead and now a big chunk of it has gone! So reading back over my plans...