Tutorials

These tutorials and guides offer helpful step by step advice on equipment and observational techniques. You can search by topic and difficulty level, from starting out to advanced. For those new to astronomy and observation, we recommend our starting out page as a guide to this section.

Mounting your telescope
2016 Jan 26 - Starting Out
Paul G Abel

Common types of telescope
2015 Sep 29 - Starting Out
Paul G Abel

Earthshine
2015 Jul 20 - Starting Out
Paul G Abel

The colours of stars
2015 May 29 - Starting Out
Paul G Abel

Observing the Moon
2015 Jan 1 - Starting Out
Bill Leatherbarrow

Solar Observing
2015 Jan 1 - Starting Out
Lyn Smith