Somerset Computer Services started in 1990. Not having much experience of running a business I decided to avail myself of a series of courses run by the then District Enterprise Centres (DEC's). These were set up to help start-up businesses through the re...

Great news from our local newspaper, the Wellington Weekly. The lights are going out in Wellington and Taunton! In an attempt to reduce the carbon footprint of Taunton Deane Borough Council, it has been decided that street lighting is going to be turned ...

Working out what the weather is going to be like is the bane of astronomers lives. Do you haul out all the gear in anticipation of a great night's observing - and then watch the clouds roll in and the heavens open? I can't offer a solution to this dilem...

The new DayStar SolaREDi Odyssey Hydrogen Alpha Telescope, as mentioned in the July isue of Astronomy Now magazine, is available for viewing in The Astronomy Shop. We took delivery a couple of weeks ago, so naturally time and the weather have cons...

If you own an Apple IPhone, Ipod or Ipad I can recommend a number of free or inexpensive astronomy related apps, all available from the App Store. 1. Satellite Flyby - this app uses your geographical location and time to predict which satellites will be ...

Following "retirement" from the oil industry, my wife Anne and I decided to make a living producing food on our organic smallholding, The Bell & Birdtable. We already had Hens, Geese, Ducks and Pigs on the smallholding, and shortly aft...

I'd like to use this blog to give a bit of background about myself and the history of SCS Astro Ltd. I got into astronomy in the summer of 1966, year of the Leonid Meteor Storm (however it did not storm in Birmingham!!). I borrowed a book on as...

Welcome to the SCS Astro Blog. I am Kieron McGrath, owner and Managing Director of SCS Astro Ltd, and enthusiastic amateur astronomer. The purpose of the blog is to provide news, hints, tips and rants and raves about our hobby, astronomy. Ast...