The course is now nine modules

Module 9 has been added and modules 4 and 5 have been rewritten. Everyone who owns Complete already has it; nobody needs to buy anything again.

Why your stars are eggs

Oval stars have four common causes and they are not equally likely. Here is the order to check them in, which is not the order people usually use.

A cloudy week reading list

Seven nights of cloud is a reasonable amount of time to fix something that is not the weather. Here is what to read instead of refreshing the forecast.

What a flat frame actually fixes

Everyone takes them. Fewer people can say what they correct, which is why so many are taken wrongly and then blamed for the result.

The first hour of a bad sky

Module 1, episode 1, in full. What to do with the first hour of a session, and what not to.

You do not need a dark site

The most repeated advice in this hobby is to drive somewhere else. It is true and it is nearly useless, and here is the arithmetic behind why.

Forty-three nights, one galaxy

Nine years running a two-metre telescope did not help. This is the log of the six weeks that followed, including every night that produced nothing.