For over 18 years Martin Lewis has been capturing images of the planets from his back garden in St Albans, using his home-built 222mm and 444mm Dobsonian telescopes. In more than 700 sessions, he has built up a wealth of practical experience, helping him produce exquisitely detailed, prize-winning images of our near neighbours in space. His journey has taken him from imaging surface details on tiny Sun-scorched Mercury and mapping the planet Mars, to imaging the cloud shrouded surface of Venus, and even capturing the rings of Uranus. In this talk he will share 10 less well-known tips which could help you to improve your planetary imaging.

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